Satin Angora Winners at Stockton

We have very happy Satin Angora winners at the Stockton show.

Tracy won the Best of Breed in show A with a white doe. Her protege youth breeder Amanda won the Best Opposite Sex with a colored buck. Amanda bought her stock from Tracy and obviously Tracy has done a great job in mentoring her.

In the middle is our pretty judge Kimijo who has done an excellent job in judging.

In show B, Tracy again won the Best of Breed but with a colored Satin Angora doe and Amanda won the Best Opposite Sex of the breed.

French Angora Winners at Stockton

At the Stockton shows, there were very nice French Angora shown.

The Best of Breed in the two shows are two different white does.

The top photo on the right is the show A Best of Breed winner Lindsay and her white doe.

The left photo is the show B Best of Breed winner Carol W. and her white doe. Both does are excellent in body, density and texture; it's a real toss up for the judges to choose the best one in the class.

The third photo is Kimijo examining a junior colored French Angora; the fourth photo is Doug giving comments while Carol G. is checking a white French Angora.

Great News from PA Convention

During the BVRA show at Stockton, Allen was on the phone having a big smile as shown in the third picture.

"What's going on?" Betty asked. Allen, "It's Randy on the phone, Eric got Best In Show at the PA State convention!" Betty, "That is great! Pictures, tell Randy and Eric that we want pictures!"

The top picture is Eric S. and his partner Michael with the Best In Show winner castor senior doe "Fondue" and the huge trophy. The Best In Show judge was Bruce O., the current ARBA Vice President.

In addition to winning the Best In Show, Fondue won the Best of Breed two more times, the fourth show was also won by Eric and Michael with a castor junior doe "Pug". They also won the Best Opposite Sex in all four shows plus several Best of Variety and classes. There were more than 200 Mini Rex in each show and there were over 4,000 rabbits in the show. It is the biggest show weekend in the east.

The second picture is Randy, Michael with Fondue and a fellow Mini Rex breeder Jackie Y.

Congratulations to Eric S. and Michael. What a great win!

English Angora Winners at Stockton

In the Big Valley Rabbit Association double shows at Stockton yesterday, the Angora exhibitors are very happy to get two wonderful judges for the breeds.

In show A, Kimijo from AZ judged English Angora, French Angora and Satin Angora. There was no Giant Angora shown. As usual, Kimijo did a great job. English Angora Chu's Fawntasia and Chu's Mario are the Best of Breed and Best Opposite Sex winners.

In show B, our handsome judge Doug judged all three breeds of Angora as well. Carol G. worked as apprentice. Same two rabbits were selected as the BOB and BOS.

The top photo is Fawntasia, second photo Mario.

The third photo is Kimijo judging the white English Angora; the fourth photo is Doug with Carol G. discussing the colored senior buck class.

Greetings from Canada

Our Canadian member Holly had a nice visit from Lisa and sister Holly recently. Lisa is also our member. They had a fun time evaluating and playing with the litter from Chu's Vance and Chu's Eqadora; we have seen the photos of these bunnies since they were little bunnies.

Top two photos are Holly with the three month old litter, two REW, two tort and one choc tort.

The third photo is Lisa with the litter.

The fouth photo is Lisa with sister Lora. Lora is yet to enter the wonderful world of Angora, but it's not going to be too long before that happens.

The background are the custom-made cages in Holly's rabbitry.

Rabbit Fashion Show

We love our rabbits. We are artistic. It's natural for us to use our artistic talents to benefit our rabbits.

At the top, two cut down English Angora are wearing sweaters made by Betty.

In the next composite photo on the left, Holland Lops are modeling Yumiko's kimono creation. In case our readers are interested in the words under the three kimonos at the top of the picture, the words from left to right are "black, tea, red" indicating the colors of the kimonos.

The right photo is our talented designer Tracy wearing a matching scarf to her French Angora's sweater that she made. The bottom photo shows a clear side view of the fashion sweater modeled by Tracy's French Angora.

Denise From Willits

Denise has been a member of NCAG for a long time; we got to see her once a year at Santa Rosa. She works on Saturdays and can hardly go to any shows. She takes a day off on the third Saturday in January every year in order to visit us in the SMRA show. We love to see her there.

"Denise, stand still for a picture."

Denise said, "For the blog again?"

"Yes, stand still and smile!"