IHA St. Gallen weekend
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Seealp käserei
Finally some competition!
Animalia or IHA St. Gallen 2009 dog show saw 11 members of the local appenzeller family on both days. Quite unexpectedly some dogs only came on one day or the other so we actually saw more dogs in one weekend than on all the other shows together. To sweeten the deal there were also a few non-competing visitors running around, one of them showing off his guide (seeing eye) dog skills.
Hanibal finished off the weekend with a second (of 3) and third place (of 5) among dogs, sweeping in for two more CAC titles and a reserve CACIB with excellent grades.
comments by I. Huber (DE)
unfortunately the handwriting is damn near illegible which makes it impossible to decipher some of her comments. Best effort below…
- Harmonisch aufgebauter Rüde
- Korr. geschnittene Kopf
- Braune Augen
- Kräftige Hals
- Feste Rücken
- Korr. ausgesetzte & getragene
- Korr. winkelung
- Harmonisch Bewegungablauf
- Stehhaar
- Richtige Abzeichen
- Havana braun
- V1, CAC, res. CACIB
comments by judge Alenka ÄŒerne (SLO)
- 2 y.o.
- Good type
- Nice head
- Good front
- v.w. angulated in front
- a bit straight behind
- Nice mover
- Good coat color and markings
- V1, CAC
frisbee demo
We took the Saturday afternoon off to walk around Appenzell and up to Seealpsee so Hanibal would at least get to enjoy a small part of the trip. Nice views, spotted some sweet skiing lines off Säntis if I ever return in winter. There’s still quite a bit of snow up there, making it possible to ski almost to the lake with careful route choice.
On Sunday we took off as soon as possible as we had a long drive back. Rather than going around through Germany again we went straight (well, in theory) through Austria, with a diversion through Liechtenstein for 5min where we were stopped by the swiss border patrol for obviously acting suspiciously by driving around a roundabout one too many times :)
Säntis
But the real navigational achievement was that we managed to take a different road in and out of St. Gallen each time :) We approached or left it from nearly all possible sides. Ohh, and I must not forget the absolutely heavenly food at Gasthaus Forst located among orchards in Kressbronn am Bodensee. It’s a not-so-short drive away from St. Gallen but absolutely worth it for the food alone. Highly recommended!
young bulls, playing
More photos in the gallery as usual. Feel free to browse.
