Hello everyone,   Just a quick reminder that the Fund Raising Auction for the 2009 Trophy Fund is coming to a close tonight at Dec-07 2008 at 7:00 PST which will be 10:00 EST for those of you on the east coast.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE AUCTION!!

Thank you all so very much for your generous bids and support on this fundraising venture!!!

There have been 245 individual viewers on this auction so far……. and the high bidder as of my writing at 11:00 AM PST is $380.00 with 17 total bids!!!! The value on this piece well exceeds the $1000.00 mark so don’t be shy….your bid is an investment in a one of a kind piece of beautiful canine art.

With Xmas just around the corner this could be a special gift that would keep on giving to the lucky recipient for a lifetime.

Have a wonderful Sunday everyone and thank you once again for your support!

BELOW IS OUR VINNIE DAUGHTER “ANGEL” OWNED AND BRED BY EKARAT SANGKUNAKUP

Angel is making her debut at her first American dog show with her wonderful handler Molly!  I’m so lucky to  have been able to see her in person as Molly was showing in Washington this weekend!!.

GREAT JOB GIRLS!!!!  MY MOTTO IS “BITCHES RULE!!”…hee hee..

More about the show in next update plus a peek at my “goodies” that transferred from the JJ Market in Bangkok to Ek to Eks friend who came over to the US last month, to Molly, then finally to us yesterday.  I am going now to open them all up  and get some pix!

Can you believe it!!! Ek wrote to me this week from Thailand with some more great puppy  news!!!

Angel had a fantastic weekend (the Vincent x Money puppy) again and I want to share Eks news verbatum with you via his email.  This grandma (and grandma Diana) are so very proud of our grandchowdren!!

The letter below is from Ekarat with his permission !

It is time to share update news from Thailand again. It was so much fun to have Sandra Millers and her daughter Liz came to visited and spends time for 1 week.  She had been seen what I have including my puppies. Dianna had 2 of my puppies and she had named them “Ginger” and “  Honey “. I hope she will have lots of fun with them in the show ring soon. I can not wait to her the result as well.

At the show last weekend here in Thailand, I did have a chance to take “ Angle ” United’s Love Struck back to the show again and she did quiet well. She is 4 /2 months at the moment.

On Saturday , She won Group 2 at the The Mall Lovely Pets Day’s & WDCT Championship Dog Shows , 1st WDCT All Breed Championship Dog Shows under Taiwan Judge : Mr.Chan Sui Kung then in the afternoon show was Group 5 Specialty, Angle won Best Baby In Show Specialty under Indian Judge : Mr.Partha Sekhar Chatterjee.

On Sunday was The Mall Lovely Pets Day’s & WDCT Championship Dog Shows , 2nd WDCT All Breed Championship Dog Shows. She won Best Baby in Show under all a rounder Australian Judge : Mr.Richard Baker. It was very exciting win for us as she had been shown 6 times and won 4 Best Baby in Shows. This Best Baby in Show win was number 403 of all United Chows puppies to update.

I would like to Thank You Sandra and Dianna for giving me an opportunity to used Vincent frozen semen also another Thank you go to my handler Molly Exner who help me working for the breeding.

Angle will be in the USA the end of this month and hope your guys will have a chance to see her if  you do please give her a hug for me.

Thank you all your guys who let me share these news.

AND A SIDE NOTE FROM SANDRA:  A BIG HUG OF  THANKS GOES TO YOU EK, FOR YOUR ADMIRATION AND SUPPORT OF OUR VINCENT FROM THE TIME HE WAS A LITTLE PUPPY.  IT WAS OUR ABSOLUTE PLEASURE TO SEE YOU USE VINCENT IN SUCH A RESPECTFUL AND RESPONSIBLE BREEDING.  VINNIE  IS ONLY ONE HALF OF THE PEDIGREE ON THESE BABIES WITH YOUR MAMA DOG “MONEY” CONTRIBUTING HER WONDERFUL GENES TOO.  WE ARE SO EXCITED TO WATCH THESE KIDS MATURE AND DEBUT IN THE SHOW RING

Last night in the wee hours of the morning I sat down and worked on these photos from the Grand Palace

I’m so glad Liz and I asked Jerry to take this photo above.  The light was so nice and it was early in the day before we were totally wilted.  In the major temples in Thailand it is required to wear long slacks (not jeans) or a full length skirt and for women long sleeves.  We were sweltering in the 90 degree heat and equally high humidity but Jerry always kept us cooled down in the shade and with lots of cold bottled water

I love this shot of this girl.  A Buddhist tradition to dip the lotus blossom in holy water and sprinkle it on the head.  This was totally unposed in front of the temple of the Jade Buddha

BELOW..the statues at the Grand Palace are ominous …….so huge and plentiful.  All surfaces are decorated everywhere you go including floors, ceilings, pillars etc…….and I though Italy was impressive that way!

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE REST OF THIS GRAND PALACE PHOTO SET AS A SLIDESHOW

CLICK THE BEAD POUCH BELOW TO GO TO MY WEBSITE AND SEE A SMALL SAMPLING OF  THE TREASURES

I AM ABOUT TO REVEAL ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY!!

Ek took this photo by going out into the pool with my camera.  This is the entrance to our room at Burasari Hotel in Phuket!! I wasn’t kidding when I said the room opened up into the pool!! There were only 5 rooms like this in the whole place and Ek got 2 of them for the 4 of us to stay in.  What a treat this was!!

Each opening between the waterfalls in another poolside room so we had lots of privacy to swim into our littel cubby hole rain forests!!  The water was like a bathtub it was so tempid

This looks like it is outdoors but the photo below shows what the interior of the hotel looked like. This was the “hallway” leading from our room to the lobby wiht water on all sides of us!!!!

I must have taken 100 pix of Liz swimming in hopes of capturing a shot like this. The wave is wrapped around her like a blanket.  One of my fave shots that day

There was parasailing on the beach one block from our hotel.  You can see the people being lifted off of the beach by a boat in the water

It was a windy one here.  Lix and I were perched on the edge of this overlook.  I had to sit down I was afraid of getting blown off balance

Below is the true meaning of a “doggie bag”.  OMG the look on her face was priceless

This is the Giant Buddha of Phuket that is being built high on the hill and can be seen from pretty much everywhere.  Liz and I bought marble tiles and put our names on them to help finance this project

Some beautiful Ellies and colors that are unmistakably Thai

The scenery at this overlook below was breathtaking.  A nice photo of Ekarat!!

The view across the pool from our room

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ENTIRE ALBUM OF OUR ROOM AND BEACH FRONT

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ENTIRE ALBUM OF OUR JAUNTS AROUND PHUKET

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE ENTIRE ALBUM OF THE ROSE GARDEN RESORT BY BANGKOK

Chow puppies on our visit to see Ekarat in Thailand

This first photo pretty much says it all when it comes to describing how fun and insane it was trying to photograph wiggly Chow puppies at dusk with only my onboard flash. OMG Liz was laughing so hard at Eks Kennel helper, driver and myself trying to get these puppies to stay still for a split second. We even got her to go to work bribing the babies with food. Only my hand was in focus here!

Chow puppies on our visit to see Ekarat in Thailand