CKC CH / FCC Elite CH / INT CH
Yukonjak's Seal of Distinction
CGC (AKA Ooky)
Born March 23, 2005
Achievements (most recent to least recent):
2007
Elite CH (Fédération Canine du Canada - 10/07; * in total, 7 certificates
of EXCELLENT were required and by getting them, Ooky became the first
Alaskan Malamute in CANADA - male or female - to achieve this particular
title!)
October 2007
- Group 3 - 10/ 07
- Group 2 - 10/ 07
- Group 3 - 10/ 07
- FCC Grand CH (4th Confromation title)!
September 2007
- IABCA INT CH (3rd Confromation title)!
- with four Best of Breeds!
- AKC CGC
June 2007
- Group 4 - Valley Kennel Club
June 2007
- FCC CH (2nd Confromation title)!
March 2007
- #5 of ALL dogs, Marmora Weight Pull
- BOS - Purina National
September 2006
- CKC CH w/ BB, BoW, WB
(1st Conformation title)
* Currently working toward WSD, WPD, WTD, WLD, WWPD titles!
Ooky was the only girl in a litter of five. The picture on this page, is her and I after winning a Group placement at one of the dog shows during Fall 2007.
Wow. What a Summer and Fall it has been. Several new Championship titles, several group placements . . . In June, Ooky received a second Championship (FCC), from a Canadian organization trying to join the FCI. FCC uses FCI rules. What did I learn? FCI judges don't like bad bites (Ooky has a very good bite however critiques are given orally and you hear what is being assessed in other dogs). Do not take a bad bite to an FCI judge. I also began to learn patience . . .
By the end of July, the two-year old Ooky received her first group placement, from Al Bennett, at the Lombardy show. I only had her entered one day. I'd had her entered in a show the weekend before that but she came into season and I decided to not take her to that show and just leave her alone. The Lombardy show, which is ten minutes from my house, was going to be less stressful to her and to I. And so she came home with a group placement!
By Fall, she'd earned another Full Championship (UCI). At the end of September, her friend Jennifer Remazki handled her to a CGC. Two weeks later Ooky made the requirements for her Elite Championship title with FCC. Oh yes, and the weekend of shows in October saw her come home with two group 3s, and finishing the weekend with a group 2! If I never accomplish another thing with Ooky, we have done this. We did it with a lot of help, but we did it.
I currently have a lot of her 'Working Legs' completed for WTD, WLD and WPD and will finish them by the end of Fall. It's HARD to find enough events for WWPD but she will pull so I guess we will just plug away at that one. I'd like to do all the various temperament tests with her, definitely more FCC and UCI shows. And I would also like to take a shot at obedience and agility . . .
I'm not quite ready to move away from the conformation showing but who knows what the future holds. She's a young dog. I guess I will finish the year out and see what next we should do . . .
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History: An alternative name for Ooky could have been 'Seal of Destruction' as she is the killer of the pack, and the floor, carpet, wood, shoe and cloth wrecker of the pack. She beats on Bert, try's to beat on Ernie and beats on the humans!Seriously though, she's been a fun dog. She was a special gift to me from Yukonjak Alaskan Malamutes. Her grandma is Spooky. Her mother is Pooky and of course, she is Ooky! I promised to discontinue the tradition . . .I am learning how to do conformation showing with her. She is as much of a kiss-up as anything. It is nearly impossible to keep her feet on the ground. She absolutely loves to rear up on both hind legs, leap and bounce toward your face. She can use one of my leather couches as an agility practice object. Ooky definitely requires more exercise than the boys, but not nearly as much as the Talagator did.
A lot of her looks seem to come from two grandmothers (Yukonjak's Spooky Boo) and (Nanuke's Seal of Approval). I would venture a guess that her go-get-em attitude is from her dad (Snowlions-Yukonjak's Mr Chill) who happens to come from a professional working / sledding / showing home. Both Ooky and her father will hang their upper teeth from the chain link in the kennel (not that this has anything to do with work). The first few times you see a dog with it's teeth hanging from a kennel like that you kind of think they became ensnared and died some horrible, tragic death. Nope, just some sleepy old, bored sled dogs messing with the owner. In fact, they will sleep that way. They will watch the world go by that way. Just hanging-around kind-of dogs! And they both have that dreaded springs-in-the-feet gene!
Ooky has done a few weight pulls, enough for me to know that she will pull, as she was just too young to pull for real last year. I am not fond of seeing my dogs do any serious amount of work if they are under two years of age.
In November 2005, she did her first show. It didn't go very well. That's what happens when you take an untrained puppy to a dog show! Mid-June 2006 she did another show and received her first point. She and I met a new friend and were given so much help to do this. I did the shows a day here, a day there, in the beginning and she was beginning to like the dog shows. Things went too quickly and by mid-August she had five points, along with two Best of Breeds and several Best of Winners. The last show she was in as an open dog, in September, saw her take Winners all three days, and a Best of Winners and Best of Breed on the day she finished her Championship. I continued to show her a bit in 2006, simply for the practice.
In March 2007 we began again at the Purina National with a Best Opposite. Right through the summer, she has taken Best of Breed or Best Opposite, in pretty much equal numbers. She also earned her FCC CH in June. She's had several group placements, as well. The odd 'bad day' happens where I forget where to stand or in which direction to move -- or she goes sailing after a bug in the ring -- and we treat those days as $25+ training days!