Toronto English Angoras

The rabbit show takes place in the Ring of Excellence Once a year, the country comes to the city. That's the tagline that I remember for the Toronto Royal Agricultural Winter Fair as it was advertised when I was a kid. RAWF is a large indoor fair with tons of crowds attending, international horse competitions, all sorts of agricultural displays, vendors, farm animals, as well as food and animal competitions.  Scope of this event, all held indoors at the gorgeous historical CNE Coliseum building, built in 1921 The Royal rabbit competition runs under the Dominion Rabbit and Cavy club rules, a Canadian rabbit breeders association older than ARBA. While the rabbit show itself might not be the biggest one in Ontario based on the number of entries, it is quite the event to experience given the grand venue and never ending crowds of onlookers.  Helen being a wonderful demo bunny Helen and her wool after the shave This time I only brought 3 angoras. Two entered in the show and one to shave

I have been grooming and pampering Uncle Buck all summer long with the hopes that he would be able to compete one more time at the Spencerville show before I would take off his glorious show coat. This boy has been such a joy to maintain. He has one of the easiest coats I have ever taken care, it's just magical. He barely ever gets any tangles and when he does they are very easy to blow open with just the blower. A quick blow out about once a week is all he needs to remain in good condition despite of having such a wonderfully dense coat.  Well as luck would have it, despite the efforts, as soon as the weather started to cool, Uncle buck started to blow his coat. It started with a trickle of wool coming off still giving me hope that with very delicate grooming there would be something left to show. But less than 2wks before the show it became clear that he has lost too much, probably a 3rd of his coat was already gone. It would have been pointless to enter him, and the heavily moul

  Lots of fair food right next to us What a day! Another fun fair show with beautiful sunny weather. We brought back our main team of whites: BerMah Maurice, Electric Iroc, Electric Uncle Buck, and his sister Electric Unity. We also brought a couple of up and coming babies. Mary was back with her team of whites: BerMah MyMy, Fancy Pricilla, BerMah Misty, and Fancy Elvis.  In our first show under judge John Richter, Electric Unity finally beat her aunt BerMah MyMy and won Best of Variety as well as Best of Breed. Her brother  Electric Uncle Buck beat all the other boys and took Opposite Sex of Variety and Breed. When you're vertically challenged and need to get your hands in the clouds In our second show under judge Mark Stewartson, Electric Unity once again beat her aunt but this time took 2nd place to her brother who was awarded Best of Variety and Breed! However the best news came at the end of the day. Electric Uncle Buck took home the Best In Show award! Our first ever Best In

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

The show was held inside the white tent so the rabbits were sheltered from the hot sun The DRCBA puts on a rabbit and cavy show at the Schomberg Fair. This was a single show with the rabbit judging done by a DRCBA judge Doris Brady. This was a fun fair show for us so I only brought our two Jr REW EAs, Uncle Buck and Unity, and a few baby Satin Angoras. Mary Grillo brought her REW EAs and Julie Martin brought her colored EAs including a couple Broken babies, a variety which is showable under DRCBA rules! Judge Doris being assisted by Julie Martin, judge in training Oh the joys of showing white rabbits, especially angoras! It seems all of our white angoras that day were having their own contest of who can poop themselves more in one day. We all had to clean some very messy butts on our rabbits. Uncle Buck pooped himself earlier in the day and Unity remained clean all day until about half hour before we were due to show!  Unity being messy 20min later after some grooming magic Both Unity

The Rockton show put on every year by the Southern Ontario Rabbit Breeders Association club is the Ontario ARBA season opener. Just as it was last year, it is a great show to attend and quite busy with 3 main open shows, multiple specialty shows, and a fun youth show for the kids.  We started the day off with a wonderful surprise! A beautiful personalized award lovingly made and presented by Beth Collins for winning the Ontario points sweepstakes for English Angoras for 2022! Judging the shows were Maddie Pratt from MI for Show A, Tom Schweikart from PA for Show B, John Richter from ON for Show C, and Mark Stewartson from ON for the Angora Specialty.  We had a total of 17 English Angoras shown by 4 exhibitors: myself, Laura Hamilton, Mary Grillo, and Julie Martin.  In the White class, we had quite the exciting battle of the BerMah kids (Josee Maher's rabbitry). I brought my Sr buck from Josee, BerMah Maurice, while Mary brought her Sr buck from Josee, BerMah Misty. I brought two Jr