Some months ago, I was offered a breeding with Waldrop Acres Rabbitry Ashur, half-brother on the dam's side to Karen Waldrop's 2023 National Silver Fox Show winner. My Atarah is getting to that age when her kindles would tend to be smaller, but I chose her because she has a record of producing good buns with different bucks. Out of the breeding, I got two does.  This past weekend was their first show and I thought they were still a bit too undeveloped, so I was mostly hoping for comments and for them to get some show experience. The judges for this two-day show varied widely in placements but, to my surprise, both those little does managed to get their first legs as first-of-class junior does. I was also very excited about another friend when she had three rabbits who won their classes and were on the table at the same time for the Best of Breed judging. She won both Best of Breed and Best of Opposite Sex of Breed in Show B. (She had brought some offspring to show from my Yanis

I had entered four rabbits in a show with a quad open, the first being on Friday night. I wish I had been able to make the first show but that did not happen, however, my husband and I went on Saturday for the remaining three shows. It had to be on one of the coldest days in a building with no heat and frozen water pipes but being the rabbit show people we are, we all toughed it out that day! My dilemma was what to do with a very nice typed young doe, whose silvering is over the top. I decided to acknowledge her blessing with the name of Zeevah, which in Hebrew means "radiance, brilliance, light, brightness, light of God" and show her. I had gotten several good comments on her type before, but it surprised me that she won Best of Opposite Breed twice this past weekend and now has two intermediate legs! That is amazing to me, but her brother's record is very impressive also. Gavriel won two more Best of Breed awards. He now has six BOB legs and another leg for being first