April's Fun Show....

Well, April's fun show has come and gone and today is 'recovering Sunday' for me. We had a great turnout again this month and we can't thank you enough for coming out and supporting this breed and our organization. Mid Florida APBTA will continue to strive to be the best that we can be, and we are always eager to hear your suggestions that will help us ful-fill the needs of our American Pit Bull Terrier community!

We had 12 dogs registered for our weight pull competition and the competition was tough indeed. We started out pulling at 300 pounds and finished at 1299. Leo, owned by James and Suzy (almost) Wolf took the Most Weight Pulled trophy, and Levi, owned by Kristopher Mayo took the Most Weight Pulled Per Pound. Special kudos to Lucy Loo, owned by Debbie and Lloyd Malott. Lucy hung tough pulling 1049 pounds without the enticement of her yellow tennis ball. She's definitely an up and coming contender!

There is alot of hard work involved in setting up the weight pull track and running this event. A huge thanks to Eva the Diva, our judge and scorekeeper; to Lloyd and his "dolly" (not Debbie, silly, his handcart!) for hauling all those weights around all day; to our never without a smile Fred, our cartman; and last but not least to Sara, our "hook-up" girl. (For all of you who are not familiar with weight pull, I'll let your imaginations run with that one!)

Mike Morgan of Old Family Reds and American Freedom Kennels was gracious enough to come out and spend the afternoon with us and judge our conformation events. Mike has over 20 years experience in breeding quality American Pit Bull Terriers and is responsible for many ADBA Champions and Grand Champions. We had 59 registered dogs
for conformation, and although that number is good we still had ribbons unclaimed in some conformation age classes! So what if you have never shown your dog before. That is exactly what these monthly fun shows are for....experience and of course fun!!

Newcomer Ronin, owned by Eric Brown took the Best Puppy trophy. Best of Opposite was awarded to Fina, owned by Eva Noble and Best of Show was awarded to Maverick, owned by Lisa Hutches.

Thanks again everyone, for brining your dogs out and spending the day with us. It was a great day in the park!