Another awesome show. :-)

[wendymac]

So proud of my bunnies. We entered the Pennsylvania Farm Show this year, and did very well. First Charlie won senior broken bucks and then BOV. Nora won 6/8 solid does, and went BOV. James (Nora's full brother) won his 6/8 solid buck class. Then Charlie won BOB and Nora took BOS.

Kitty showed her Flop doe, Frostie, in the youth. She won the solid senior doe class and then went BOSV.

Sunday (our Polish doe) won broken senior doe, BOV, and then BOS.

Any animals that won BOB down to BOSV had to stay the week, though. I didn't know that before I entered, so next year we won't be showing there. They all seem to be handling it well, except Nora. When I went down yesterday she literally jumped out of her cage onto my shoulder/chest. She NEVER does that, but does always come to the front of her cage for petting and loving. She definitely wanted to come home.

The good news is that I put about 500 business cards on the cages, and they're all gone. So hopefully it'll help get my name out there.

They're supposed to be feeding and watering every day, but every day we go down and their feeders are empty. Which means driving an hour and half down there, tending the bunnies, then driving home again. My internet comes and goes (Verizon's been out here the last 2 days and can't figure it out) and I have the flu.

 

[OakRidgeRabbits]

Congratulations!!

I think they tend to feed and clean either early in the morning or late at night when visitors aren't around. So that could explain feeders not being full. I've been showing down there for years and the bunnies have always seemed well taken care of.

 

[Katielovesleo3]

Congrats! Man I would be ticked off if someone wasnt feeding them, that's too much driving especially since you're feeling so sickly. Get well soon!

 

[ldoerr]

CONGRATS!! Hope that you get to take them home soon and that they are all ok

 

[KittyKatMe]

 

[majorv]

Congrats on the wins! Bummer on the 3 hour drive every day though. Hope you get plenty of calls from your cards! At convention we put a business card on each of our cages. I fully expected the Tans to chew them up, but barely a nibble from them. It was my Polish who annihilated them, lol!

 

[pamnock]

Congrats!

 

[wendymac]

Thanks, guys!! They're supposed to be feeding/watering in the morning and again in the evening. The morning person hasn't been doing their job, because the only ones that have food (and, in a lot of cases, water) are those that are down there doing it themselves. My mother and I walked all through the bunnies, and 90% of them had no food at all. Thankfully they come home in just 3 more days. And hopefully this 104 degree fever will be done by then!

 

[Imbrium]

I dunno anything about shows, but it seems pretty outrageous to make the winners stay there for a week... and to make them stay and provide such piss-poor care for the precious winning show bunns that their owners have to make long drives each day just to ensure their bunnies have food and water... WTF? I probably would've said "to hell with all of you" and taken my bunnies home after a time or two of having to drive up to feed/water them, lol... that, or I'd show up every day and give everyone else's bunnies food and water, too!

 

[Katielovesleo3]

^^^lol! Yeah! Me too!!!

 

[wendymac]

Well, I won't be showing there again. Or else we'll just take the camper down for the week. They keep the winners on display, for all the city folk to "oohhhh" and "ahhhh" over. I'm just glad my car practically runs on air, so it only costs around $10/round trip!