{"id":575,"date":"2022-01-10T19:08:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2026-10-04T01:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T01:04:25","slug":"braya-finishes-iabca-international-puppy-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/10\/braya-finishes-iabca-international-puppy-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Braya finishes IABCA International Puppy Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Braya and I competed at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iabca.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.iabca.com\/index.html\">IABCA<\/a> (International All Breed Canine Association of America) Lynden, WA show this weekend in Puppy Class and Bred By Exhibitor(BBX) Puppy class. She did absolutely amazing. She was shown under 4 judges, all of whom gave her the top rating of SG-1. Under IABCA rules this completes her International Puppy Championship. Comments included &#8220;Overall- Impression-Balanced, outgoing, Head-Exceptional, nice expression, Topline-Solid, high in rear, Front quarters, Excellent for age&#8221; and my favorite &#8220;Movement-Good &#8216;booty&#8217; roll on amble&#8221;.  She took Best Puppy in Breed in all 4 shows. Moving on to Group where she took Group 1 Puppy x3 (she was napping and missed one LOL). For BIS she took Reserve BIS BBX puppy Saturday(show #1) , and Sunday she received BIS BBX Puppy (Shows #3 &amp;4).  Thank you to judges Dr Vandra Huber(Int &amp; USA), Kristie Wheeler (USA), Karen Sholz (USA) and Diann Sullivan (USA).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IABCA-Braya-BIS-3-1024x709.jpg\" alt=\"Old English Sheepdog lying on a grooming table with three purple IABCA ribbons and gold medals\" class=\"wp-image-581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IABCA-Braya-BIS-3-1024x709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IABCA-Braya-BIS-3-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IABCA-Braya-BIS-3-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IABCA-Braya-BIS-3-1536x1064.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IABCA-Braya-BIS-3-2048x1418.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1866\" height=\"1170\" src=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_353061042911509.jpeg\" alt=\"Two women with purple ribbons, a woman with a black Labrador, and a woman with an Old English Sheepdog pose in an indoor arena after CGC testing\" class=\"wp-image-589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_353061042911509.jpeg 1866w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_353061042911509-300x188.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_353061042911509-1024x642.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_353061042911509-768x482.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_353061042911509-1536x963.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1866px) 100vw, 1866px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-588\" alt=\"Old English Sheepdog at an indoor dog show holding a purple rosette ribbon in its mouth as a handler holds the leash\" src=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_1362190974215477.jpeg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_1362190974215477.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_1362190974215477-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_1362190974215477-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_1362190974215477-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_350986539791596-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Old English Sheepdog lying on the floor at a dog show, held on a leash by a person in floral boots\" class=\"wp-image-587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_350986539791596-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_350986539791596-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_350986539791596-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_350986539791596-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_350986539791596.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had such a fun weekend with my niece Mckenzie and her beautiful Aussie Monroe, who also took BIS BBX open class on Sunday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/received_982597769304164.jpeg\" alt=\"Overhead view of a blue merle Australian Shepherd and an Old English Sheepdog looking up at the camera\" 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She did absolutely amazing. She was shown under 4 judges, all of whom gave her the top rating of SG-1. Under IABCA rules this completes her International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4,5,8,6],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showing-and-trials","tag-old-english-sheepdog","tag-old-english-sheepdog-puppies","tag-pacific-northwest","tag-washington-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","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=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islandboundsheepdog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}