Toronto English Angoras

The rabbit show tent under the hazy wild fires sky  This show was dedicated to remembering Dave Grandy who sadly passed away last month. A long time member of the rabbit community as well as the person responsible for organizing the rabbit show at the Brooklin fair.   Our colored juniors stayed home this time while our white team was out in full force. This time around every one was showing in the Sr classes and there were no juniors at the show.  Our team of whites The show getting started For boys we brought Electric Iroc, BerMah Maurice, and Electric Uncle Buck. For girls we brought Electric Unity and our "old" lady Electric Melody. Having just finished raising and fostering 13 babies she was very much not in competitive form but she came out to get officially registered. The other person showing with us was Mary (Meg's Fancy Bunnies). She brought two boys, BerMah Misty and Fancy Elvis, and two girls: BerMah MyMy and Fancy Pricilla. Once again this was a close competit...

  This was only a small single show but it was a super fun event. Judge Tom Schweikart from Pennsylvania took time to answer many questions and gave wonderful explanations for what he saw in the animals. The atmosphere was very intimate and relaxed with lots of joking around and lots of laughing. This show was held as part of the Brooklyn Spring Agricultural Fair and we were surrounded by lots of other fair events, livestock shows, and numerous food trucks were only a 2min walk away from our tent. Lots of people from the fair came by to check out the rabbits and naturally the Angoras drew in lots of attention.  We had 8 English Angoras shown by 3 exhibitors. Electric Unicorn, a Senior White buck, won Best of Breed and Best of White Variety earning his final leg to qualify him for his Grand Champion title. Best Opposite Sex of Breed went to Electric Cinder, a Black Junior doe who later went on to also win in the youth handlers class.  Best Opposite Sex for White Varie...