{"id":287,"date":"2018-07-08T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2026-10-04T01:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T01:05:03","slug":"saffy-is-new-an-akc-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/08\/saffy-is-new-an-akc-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Saffy is new AKC Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Saffy competed at the dog show at the Puyallup Fairgrounds. As of of Friday morning she started the competition with 10 points needing 5 more to become an AKC champion, and she has had a spectacular weekend so far. The hope was that she would get 5 or close to 5 points, but so far she has taken 14 points at the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Day one (Friday) first OES specialty she took Best of Winners with a 5 point major and became champion. In the second specialty she took Best of Opposite for another 5 points.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-288 size-large\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AKC-Champ-Saffy-1024x737.png\" alt=\"Handler and judge pose with a gray and white Old English Sheepdog, ribbons, trophies and a Best of Winners Winners Bitch sign at the Seattle specialty\" width=\"640\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AKC-Champ-Saffy-1024x737.png 1024w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AKC-Champ-Saffy-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AKC-Champ-Saffy-768x553.png 768w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/AKC-Champ-Saffy.png 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to judge Lee Herr and handler Tiffany Skinner.<\/p>\n<p>Day 2 (Saturday) she took Best of Opposite for yet another 4 points.<\/p>\n<p>If I am doing the math right that makes her an AKC champion, with 9 points towards Grand Champion.<\/p>\n<p>Go Saffy!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Empty indoor dog show hall with grooming tables and equipment, and an Old English Sheepdog resting in a wire crate\" class=\"wp-image-295 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_1152471615659323.jpg\" width=\"3120\" height=\"4160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_1152471615659323.jpg 3120w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_1152471615659323-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_1152471615659323-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3120px) 100vw, 3120px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Old English Sheepdog asleep on a blue grooming table at a dog show, with a pink dryer and crates behind\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-296 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_1216211806123973.jpg\" width=\"3120\" height=\"4160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_1216211806123973.jpg 3120w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_1216211806123973-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_1216211806123973-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3120px) 100vw, 3120px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Close-up of Saffy, an Old English Sheepdog, sitting on a blue grooming table in a large show hall\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-297\" src=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_1331451396117765.jpg\" width=\"3120\" height=\"4160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_1331451396117765.jpg 3120w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_1331451396117765-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_1331451396117765-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3120px) 100vw, 3120px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Saffy, a groomed Old English Sheepdog, sits on a blue grooming table at a dog show with exhibitors in the background\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-298\" src=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_134734498536900.jpg\" width=\"3120\" height=\"4160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_134734498536900.jpg 3120w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_134734498536900-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_134734498536900-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3120px) 100vw, 3120px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Old English Sheepdog standing in show stance beside a handler in the ring area of an indoor dog show\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-299 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_144625443309148.jpg\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_144625443309148.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_144625443309148-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_144625443309148-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_144625443309148-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Purple and blue AKC show rosettes and ribbons on a table at a Old English Sheepdog Club of Greater Seattle show, with a Best of Winners sign\" class=\"size-full\" data-wpid=\"47\" src=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180706_152739493934475.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend Saffy competed at the dog show at the Puyallup Fairgrounds. As of of Friday morning she started the competition with 10 points needing 5 more to become an AKC champion, and she has had a spectacular weekend so far. The hope was that she would get 5 or close to 5 points, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-parks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}