Keiko San Does a Three Peat

I am so thankful for electronics this weekend! Sister Sherry's three year old mastiff, Keiko San has been participating in the Dog Show at the Portland (Oregon) Expo Center this weekend. Sherry and her friend Kathy have had an incredible weekend. Kathy is a photographer par excellence and has been sharing pictures of the shows on Facebook. Sister Roxy and her husband Rich went down on Saturday to watch the show and have also been sharing pictures.

This is the first day of the show when Keiko took the Best of Breed in a large class of mastiffs.








He proceeded to win Best of Breed on Saturday as well and made the cut in the afternoon with a class of Working Dogs. Keiko got his Championship Points last fall (we got to watch him show in the Tri-Cities) and is now working on his Grand Champion points. This picture is from this morning's show where he again took Best of Breed.

The fellow showing him in the picture above is the main handler that Sherry works with. He has assistants that work with him. This lady in the pink suit was his handler at today's show. Each day has had a different judge. It's nice to know that they all agree he's an excellent specimen. Rich made and posted a video of this morning's competition, so we all got to watch!

The judges all seem impressed by Keiko's muscle tone. He spends hours at the farm playing soccer with his bowling balls. At about 235 pounds, you really don't want to get in front of him when he's chasing a ball! He's definitely a gentle giant and will lay quietly at Sherry's feet and let anyone pet him.

Between updates from the Dog Show, we were watching football today. It's now official that the Seattle Seahawks will be playing the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl. It's nice to end the day watching bull-riding however!