Matt and Ashley’s Fun Life with Animals

We have seen many photos and reports of Matt Bishop and Ashley Shaw over the years.  They met when they were youth showing Angora.   They have raised all four breeds of Angora, Matt even won a convention group with his English Angora when he was still a youth.   Now their main breed is the Giant Angora, winning Best In Show regularly, this is a photo of their Best In Show winning at the PA state convention in February.  PaSRBA show is one of the very major shows in the country.   

Matt passed all the requirements to become an ARBA judge in 2019, judged his first show ever at WCC, see:

Northern California Angora Guild: Saturday Open Show A Angora Judging at WCC (ncag.blogspot.com)

They had their wedding plan for 2020 but COVID prevent it from happening, eventually in 2021, they became husband and wife.   Angora was such an important part of their courtship, two of the Giant Angora bunnies are in the wedding party.  

In addition to the Angora, Matt and Ashley are also big fans of the Golden Retriever, they are also in the wedding party. 

They also show their Golden Retriever and needless to say, their Golden Retriever wins in shows.

More importantly, the Golden Retriever are their family members.

They are also exercise buddies.

In addition to rabbits and dogs, their life also includes sheep that are pets as well as producers of wool to be used in their Blue Mountain Fiber Mill in Harrisburg, PA.  Carol has visited their mill in 2018, see:
Northern California Angora Guild (ncag.blogspot.com)

Ashely loves her sheep.

Here are some of the posts of Matt and Ashley over the years:

Northern California Angora Guild (ncag.blogspot.com)