This last weekend I left late Thursday night and drove an hour North to my friends house to consolidate all of our stuff and 5 dogs into her car and utility trailer to drive to Washington for the Whippet racing Nationals. The pile of stuff was a little daunting and there was a little skepticism as to whether it was all going to fit. Our pile was extra big because we were extra ambitious and made dog beds, dog jammies, beaded dog necklaces, whippet t-shirts, and dog cookies for a vendor booth. We managed to get it all in and left for Washington at 9:00 Thursday night. We arrived at a motel at 1:00 Friday morning, which left only an hour of driving for Friday. We arrived at the field 9:00 Friday morning.
The location is beautiful with Mt. Rainier in the background.
Friday’s activities included a Fun Match with almost 70 whippets entered!
Here is Danica with her litter sister, Datura. Datura went onto win Best of Opposite in Match. She is a real cutey 🙂
and the racing was incredible. The speed of these dogs is amazing.
This was my favorite of the weekend. The dogs have to wear muzzles while they are racing and a lot of the muzzles are painted cool colors. Danica’s breeder, Merril, took it a step further and painted teeth on a muzzle. The dog wearing this muzzle is Chai and you can’t get much sweeter than little Chai, but she looked pretty ferocious with her muzzle on.
My goal for the weekend was to get a great picture of her racing with it on and I think this captures what I was hoping for 🙂
Our vendor booth was successful…
and it was fun seeing dogs walking around with the jammies I made on.
We left late Sunday night and I made it into bed by 3:00 Monday morning – it was a lot of fun, but I feel as tired as this puppy looks 🙂
Stories from the Farm 
Those PJs are absolutely adorable! Traum needs rubber ducky ones, to match his slippers LOL (Well… he doesn’t think so. He HATES to wear clothes ;0P)
Well, you KNOW I think Danica should have taken BOB! She is my absolute favorite….almost makes me want to have a whippet! 🙂 LOVED the painted mask and the action shot, that owner has a great sense of humor!
That painted mask is very funny, loved seeing it on while she raced. 😀 I also like your jammies! See! Obviously you can sew… So I’m not going to believe you on that one anymore… From a sew-dumb person. 😉
Thanks Wrensong Farm! There were several instances where I was amazed at the sense of humor – much different than all of the other dog events I have been involved in. It was so much fun!
mudranch – as you know I have made comments before that ‘I DON’T sew’. Well…I can’t say that anymore! I even bought my very own sewing machine. I was really racking up the miles driving up to my parents. I can even thread the machine all by myself 😉
Great action shots. That breed sure is built for speed. I think if I saw that mask headed for me I would jump out of the way. Love the Speed Racer PJ’s and the crashed puppy at the end. Cute!!!
So glad to hear you OWN a sewing machine now!!! Excellent! Now you can start making those ribbon quilts I’ve been bugging you about…I know once you look at one, you’ll be able to make one in about…oh…five minutes 😉
I’m catching up on your blog–I always have fun reading it and you have such great photos. Those whippet races sound like fun. Do you make matching jammies for the owners?
cool site…
you may want to check out mine:
http://www.machspeedwhippets.com
http://www.machspeedwhippets.wordpress.com