Cooper the miniature pinscher wouldn’t win best-behaved canine, that’s a certain guess. It’s one of many causes Mattie Washburn-Zech mentioned she didn’t enter him within the Mayo canine present.
“He gets into a lot of things,” Washburn-Zech instructed the News over the cellphone on Oct. 11. “I’m scared he’s going to get into the bake sale.”
Washburn-Zech is among the college students within the Grade 6/7 class at J.V. Clark School who got here up with the thought to host a canine present as a fundraiser for the varsity.
She spoke to the News throughout a break from arranging the fitness center for the occasion, which took place later that evening. It drew 22 rivals and an viewers of greater than 90.
The purpose of the occasion (apart from, clearly, to pet dogs), was to lift funds for the Grade 6/7 volleyball group to journey to Whitehorse for the championships in early November.
“We were looking for probably $2,500, because that’s the cost for 11 students to stay in a hotel for three nights,” mentioned college principal Doug Cooper (no relation to the pinscher).
The cost to enter a canine within the present was $20. Cooper had thought $1,000 was a conservative estimate for the night, which included the sale of the afore-mentioned baked items, sizzling chocolate, sizzling dogs, tickets to a 50/50 draw and Yaami Candles made by entrepreneurship college students on the college. “We raised $1,350.35. We were amazed.”
For the first-ever present, dogs got here dressed of their best t-shirts, bandanas and bowties, to point out off their abilities, take in viewers assist, and compete for prizes.
Cooper mentioned there have been sufficient ribbons and classes that no canine ought to have needed to go home empty-pawed.
During the present, a panel of judges chosen from the neighborhood have been tasked with awarding prizes (sponsored by the Feed Store in Whitehorse) in classes together with finest rescue canine, finest puppy, finest elder canine, finest groomed canine, waggiest tail, finest in present, most obedient canine, and finest owner-dog look-alike pair.
Washburn-Zech says the category arrived on the classes by excited about the dogs in Mayo. A number of them are rescues, she mentioned, or stray dogs from the neighborhood or Pelly Crossing.
Because of that, the scope of this specific present was broadened past conventional classes like those you’d discover at Westminster. There was no toy group, herding group, or better of breed, for instance. The classes have been designed with that almost all ubiquitous of northern breeds in thoughts — the Yukon Special.
A whole checklist of winners is as follows:
Best Puppy
Chimmy (Cassius Hager)
Yoda (Lynn Dubois)
Buster (Joan Hyvre)
Nooka (Aaron Burnie)
Luna (Sarah Paschuk)
Best Rescue
Axel (Tanner Moses -Mclaren)
Osa (Ava Young)
Tika ( John Reid)
T-Bone (Dan Stach)
Stanley (Tara McCauley)
Best Older Dog
Hunter (Michelle Buyck)
Milo (Simeon Paschuk)
Lacey (Trevor/Aiden Ellis)
Penny (Syd Anderson)
Randy (Velma Anderson)
Best Groomed Dog
Bambi (Chelsea Dolan)
Lindy (Virginia Mitford)
Macy (Taylor Ewing)
Tack (Amy Noseworthy)
Levi (Rosy/River Stenerson)
Waggiest Tail
Phoebe (Annabelle Lattie)
Bennie (Brett Stauffer)
Bernie (River Stenerson)
Stanley (Tara McCauley)
Macy (Taylor Ewing)
Most Obedient
Abby (Colin Dubois)
Macy (Taylor Ewing)
Lindy (Virginia Mitford)
Yoda (Lynn Dubois)
Betty (Joan Hyvre)
Most Like Owner
Buster (Joan Hyvre)
Best in Show
Stanley (Tara McCauley)
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Mayo Mayor Trevor Ellis talking about his canine, Kelly, throughout the very best rescue canine competitors. Judges included Terra Blanchard, training coordinator with the First Nation of Na Cho Nyak Dun and RCMP officer Mike Duke. (Courtesy/Doug Cooper)
Cassius Hager-McGinty displaying his puppy, Chimey, who took the crown for finest puppy. (Courtesy/Doug Cooper)
Stanley, owned by J.V. Cark School vice-principal Tara McCauley, gained finest in present. No one alleged nepotism. (Courtesy/Doug Cooper)
