Ozzy came into his first show of 2025 needing 2 majors and 8 points total (so if he got 3 point majors he would have needed a couple of singles too).
Knowing there would be potential majors in Albany OR, I entered Ozzy hoping he might be able to garner those points and finish.
Well – finish he did. I asked for Cheyenne Calvert’s help since I can’t take 2 dogs in the ring at the same time so I am thankful for her.
The first day, under judge Ms Rhonda DeSilva, Ozzy went WD/BOW/BOV for a 5 point major. Talk about crazy amazing. He then made the final 6 cut in Hound Group under judge Mrs Christine Erickson – from the classes!
The second day he went WD for another 2 points under judge Erika N Wyatt. On Sunday he went WD/BOW for his final major to finish under judge Ms Marilyn L Van Vleit.
Talk about so proud. Our first Kazuri CH for 2025. CH Kazuri N Joyful Noise Just Over The Rainbow
Congratulations to his “mommy” Tesla and co-breeder/co-owner Dolly
There is a new team on the horizon – Sarah and Nick’s (MBIS MBISS GCHP Kazuri’s All I Want For Christmas CGC TKN ATT BCAT)
Co-breeders/Co-owners Mike and Karen Kurtzner did a beautiful job training and conditioning this sweet boy and taking his to heights I can only dream of.
Because they have another girl Lolli that they are showing right now (and we are cheering for), Nick has come for a temporary vacation in Washington so I can show him. Mike and Karen have been so supportive and I am thankful as I know they miss him very much.
My goal for 2025/26 is to get him to his Double Platinum It’s a lofty goal but we are up for the challenge.
I want to thank all of the judges who gave him Best In Show wins, Group placements and Specialty wins.
Every year I like to look back on all the amazing things that have happened in our breeding program and showing.
I will first say that I am so so grateful for my husband and partner Steve who keeps the homefires burning when I am away at a show. He is wonderful with our adult dogs and perfect with our puppies. I could not travel to shows and stay there overnight without him taking care of the ones I leave behind.
I am so thankful for my village of friends who are like family who help take dogs in the ring, look after puppies, trust me to mentor them, and those who are there to bounce ideas off, who allow me to use their dogs at stud or trust me with their lines. I am SO SO thankful and know I could not be here without you all!!
Without further ado I will post how my 2024 panned out – what a good one 🙂
New Champion SHIRLEY – CH 2Rivers It Sure Is Hot CGC ATT TKN FDC JDJ FTN (out of CH Wood Duck CInderfella OS x CH Hypnautic Forever Rain Fall @ 2Rivers BCAT) Bred by Anne Peterson (2Rivers) & Christian Rutten (Evermore). Shirley is our beloved Golden Retriever pet, who moonlights as a show dog once and a while. We are so thankful to have this wonderful and versatile girl in our home, who shows baby puppies that big dogs are safe. Thank you to her breeder Christian Rutten and his fiancée Megan Honari for showing her to her CH title this year.
New Bronze CH and Specialty Winner TEX – OHBIS BISS GCH Kazuri N Van-Mar Trouble In Texas (BISS Ha’Penny’s Too Much Trouble x Aus CH Karakush Proof Is InTh Pudding) Bred / co-owned by Chelsea Metteer * Sarah Sweetman and co-owned by Hillary Arnaud. Tex finished the year at #6 Breed and #5 Owner Handler. A huge thank you to Mike and Karen Kurtzner who showed Tex till May, and then co-owner/co-breeder Chelsea Metteer and co-owner Hillary Arnaud for piloting him the rest of the year!
New Bronze CH and Specialty Winner and Reserve Best In Show Winner MURPHY – GCHB Kazuri’s Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (out of CH Bill T’s August Rush to Alpenglow x CH Kazuri’s Everything’s Coming Up Roses). Bred by Sarah Sweetman & Mike & Karen Kurtzner. Owned by Sarah Sweetman & Sarah Smith-Falkner. Murphy started his career as a “special” just shy of his 2nd birthday in August 2024 – he and Randy quickly gained a rhythm together and ended the year with many group wins and placements, a Best In Specialty show with co-owner Sarah Smith-Falkner at the lead, and a Reserve Best In Show with Randy. He finished as the USA #4 13 inch beagle. So proud of this boy
New Bronze CH CALLIE – GCHB Kazuri’s Everything’s Gonna Be Sugar N Spice BCAT (out of CH Bill T’s August Rush to Alpenglow x CH Kazuri’s Everything’s Coming Up Roses). Bred by Sarah Sweetman & Mike & Karen Kurtzner. Owned by Sarah Sweetman. Callie and Sarah enjoyed a year showing together and were awarded OH group placements and wins and regular hound group placements. She finished as the USA#7 Breed and #8 Owner Handler 13 inch beagle. So proud of this sassy girl who is starting her new adventure as a Juniors dog in select appearances but living at home in between with Kazuri/Sarah.
New Champion (13 inch) LUMI – CH Kazuri’s Illuminate My Dreams (out of MBIS MBISS GCHP Kazuri’s All I Want For Christmas CGC TKN ATT BCAT x Kazuri’s A Million Dreams). Bred by Sarah Sweetman, Mike & Karen Kurtzner. Owned by the Roman family. Lumi was sold as a pet, and then I saw her at 4 months I asked if they would mind if I showed her. They agreed and she finished with 4 majors in a handful of weekends from the 6-9 month old class.
New Champion and Grand Champion (13 inch) SAVANNAH – GCH Kazuri’s Everything’s Gonna Be Peachy (BISS GCHB Kazuri’s Everything’s Gonna Be Alright x CH Kazuri’s Feeling The Siren’s Call) – Bred by Sarah Sweetman, Co-owned by Malia Throop. Malia has done incredible things with Vannah Voo and they have received several Hound Group and Owner Handler Group placements. Malia and Vanna Voo also ended up in the rankings for both Breed (#36) and Owner Handler (#15)
New Champion (13 inch) BRINN – CH Kazuri’s Chasing My Dreams (out of MBIS MBISS GCHP Kazuri’s All I Want For Christmas CGC TKN ATT BCAT x CH Kazuri’s A Joyful Chase Thru The Woods). Bred by Sarah Sweetman, Mike & Karen Kurtzner and owned by Sarah Sweetman & the Davis Family. Brinn wasn’t sure about showing at first, but when she figured out the game and how much yummy chicken she would get, she was all in. She finished with 4 majors and multiple BOS over specials. Thank you to Shelley McGaugh who Brinn LOVED showing with and so she worked their magic mojo to show her.
New Champion (13 inch) MORRISON- CH Kazuri’s Everything Reminds Me Of You (out of BISS GCH Tashwould DeJa Vu x Kazuri’s Everything’s Coming Up Roses) Bred / owned by Sarah Sweetman, Mike & Karen Kurtzner and now loved by the King family under the name “Otis”. Morrison/Otis is the sweetest boy and a joy to live with. This litter is special as we used 26 year old frozen semen from a dog BJ that won the National Beagle Club show TWICE along with his other many achievements!! He quickly gained his CH title from the Bred By puppy class and now lives in a guardian home as perhaps one day he will sire a litter.
New Champion (13 inch) LUCY – CH Wilderness You Can’t Take My Sass (out of BISS BIS GCH Glade Mill L’Attente x CH Wilderness Sugar Rush). Bred by Diana Cazier & Cheyenne Wohlschlegel Co-owned by Malia Throop & Sarah Sweetman. When Diane from Wilderness beagles in ID contacted me about a couple of girls she had available, I will admit my interest piqued as I love their sire Victor. Funnily enough, I had just been on a road trip with a couple of show friends and talking about these puppies and Malia and I decided there was only one thing but to fly to UT and attend a dog show and look at puppies. We were not disappointed and brought Lucy home. At first she would rather run and play in the show ring and table, but once she figured out the game of how to show, she was unstoppable taking some notable wins over many specials once she had obtained her CH title. Malia and I are so very excited for the future
New Champion and New Mommy (Cavalier King Charles) STELLA (CH Lockestar Hundred Acre Wood x LoKazuri Star Fourth In Line TKN). Bred by Sarah Sweetman and co-owned by Amie & Emma Adams. Emma and Amie do an amazing job conditioning and presenting their dogs and Stella was no exception. She finished in style with Amie, gathering a 4 point major and BOS placement over many specials. Amie & Emma had Stella so they could start their own breeding program and were blessed with a lovely litter of 5. They kept two beautiful prospects and so watch for Hammy and Gemma in the ring in 2025.
New Bronze Champion MAXIM (15 inch) GCH Kazuri’s Rocking the naughty list at Roylcrest (out of MBIS MBISS GCHP Kazuri’s All I Want For Christmas CGC TKN ATT BCAT x CH Kazuri’s Everything’s Coming Up Roses). Bred by Sarah Sweetman, Mike & Karen Kurtzner and owned by Lorna & Sam Boydston & Sarah Sweetman. Lorna did a great job showing Maxim who finished the year in #24 position after only showing a handful of weekends. He garnered multiple OH Group and regular Group placements with her.
And waiting in the wings to finish hopefully in 2025
DEEJAY- Kazuri Do You Get DeJa Vu (out of BISS GCH Tashwould DeJa Vu x Kazuri’s Everything’s Coming Up Roses) – 14 points including both majors and a group placement from the classes. Owned by Sarah Sweetman, Mike & Karen Kurztner
OZZY – Kazuri N JoyfulNoise Just Over The Rainbow (out of BISS CH Meadow Crest’s Just Call Me Sir x GCH Kazuri’s Cover Me In Sunshine) 7 singles – needs 2 majors and 1 single. He also got a Puppy Hound group 2 at a specialty hound show. Owned by Tesla Sabatier, Sarah Sweetman and Dolly Stearns
WHIMSY – Kazuri N JoyfulNoise Just Glitter In The Wind (out of BISS CH Meadow Crest’s Just Call Me Sir x GCH Kazuri’s Cover Me In Sunshine) 9 points – needs 2 majors – Owned by Dolly Stearns and Ruthie Tesky
**photo coming**
GYSPY – Kazuri N JoyfulNoise Just Lace And Paper Flowers (out of BISS CH Meadow Crest’s Just Call Me Sir x GCH Kazuri’s Cover Me In Sunshine) 8 singles – needs 2 majors owned by Sarah Sweetman
CHASE – CH Kazuri’s Chasin’ My Dreams (out of MBIS MBISS GCHP Kazuri’s All I Want For Christmas CGC TKN ATT BCAT x Kazuri’s A Million Dreams). Has 1 major – needs 1 major plus singles. Owned by Sarah Sweetman and the Niessen Family
And our youngsters waiting in the wings who may or may not make a debut – owned / co-owned or bred by / co-bred by Kazuri 🙂 <3
Malibu (Kazuri’s Blue Skies over Malibu),
Roads (Kazuri’s Find New Roads),
Aurora (Kazuri A Million Lights Across Icy Skies),
Luca (Kazuri’s Trouble Free Dreams),
Walker (Kazuri’s Just A Cake Walk),
Dunkin (Kazuri Do-Nut Give Me Trouble)
Vada (aka Potato Kazuri N JoyfulNoise Sunshine On A Cloudy Day),
Jack Jack (Kazuri N JoyfulNoise Sunhine of Your Love),
Lyric (JoyfulNoise N Kazuri The Sound of Sunshine)
I am so proud of miss Brinn – she lives with her mom and dad in Seattle and they agreed to let me show her. Her first show this year was indoors and she got frightened by some loud crashes and dogs barking – so much so that I pulled her from the ring as I didnt want her to associate fear with the ring. We held her and walked her around and by the end of the weekend she was in her groove.
We have shown her sporadically over the Summer and she garnered 4 majors – 2 of which were going BOS over several lovely specials for 5 and 4 point majors! It seemed when judges liked her, they really liked her.
Brinn will take time off now and will hopefully have a litter for Kazuri in 2025 – stay tuned for that announcement.
We are so proud of this little beagle girl who finished her CH title with 4 majors from the 6-9 month class. She has a great ring presence and took to showing well – I am super excited to see what she does next. Congratulations to the Roman family!!
Last October, Chelsea and I were given the opportunity to send our young special, Tex, with longtime handlers Mike and Karen Kurtzner to begin a campaign in pursuit of letting him live up to his full potential.
In January, Tex and Mike took their first steps into the ring together and were awarded Best of Variety and a group placement that very weekend! In the months that passed, Tex quickly amassed some great BOV and Group placement wins, making him the #1 fifteen inch beagle in the nation for January and February.
Much to our delight, we also had the honor of exhibiting at this year’s Westminster Kennel Club dog show, to which Tex continued to make more dreams come true – winning Best of Opposite Sex at his very first Westminster.
Campaigning a dog is an incredible privilege and responsibility. It is something we feel incredibly blessed and grateful to experience and, when you have a dog you believe in as much as we do, you have to give them the opportunity to shine.
Campaigning a dog also comes with considerable costs – time, energy, travel, personal life and financial demands. While we had hoped to make the budget stretch until December, it has become obvious that this is not achievable for us at this time.
To this end, Mike, Karen, Chelsea and I talked openly and made the mutual decision that Tex would go to Westminster and then head back to the West Coast to live with me again. While we all felt sad, we also all felt this was the best decision given the parameters we had to work in.
Tex has touched down in California after a little stop with me in Seattle, and is doing great. Mike and Karen took incredible care of him, and he is in top condition, and will be shown by Chelsea as I can.
We are so incredibly proud of all that Tex has accomplished is such a short amount of time. All that would not have been possible without the hard work, dedication, sacrifice, and years of experience that Mike and Karen have poured into our dog. We are so blessed, proud of, and incredibly grateful for them.
My friends Dolly, Malia and Ruthie and I went to Ridgefield to play at the International Dog show there.
We took beagles Savannah (Kazuri’s It’s Gonna Be Peachy), Gypsy (Joyful Noise N Kazuri Just Lace and Paper Flowers) and Whimsy (Joyful Noise N Kazuri Just Glitter in the Wind). Whim did not show but Savannah and Gypsy had a wonderful day. Both got their Puppy IntCH and Gypsy went on to get owner handled reserve best in show for the puppies. Talk about an incredible finish to the day!!
We took 4 cavaliers – Teddy (Kazuri’s Roosevelt Rough Rider), Puck (Kazuri’s Light Up The Ice), Charlie (Kazuri’s The Mystery of Hope) and Piper (Kazuri’s Play Me Another Love Song). All four attained top marks for their age and got their INT CH titles. I was so so thrilled indeed.
It was a busy weekend with loads of memories and fun. I am so glad I have these opportunities to hang out with my friends, road trip and show our amazing dogs. thank you to all the families who are guardians for some of these dogs and allow me to borrow them to show.
What an INCREDIBLE year indeed. Here is a recap of it all. I have SO much to be thankful for – most of all for my beagle and cavalier community – I couldn’t have done any of this without you all.
Nick – MBIS MBISS GCHP Kazuri’s All I Want For Christmas CGC TKN ATT finished the year as the #1 15 inch beagle for the 2nd year. He was recognized at the 2023 National Beagle Club as People’s Choice as voted by fellow breeders. He is in semi-retirement and will show in select shows in 2024 and beyond. We are also thrilled that he had 6 more of his progeny finish their CH titles and several others are close to finishing. These six gives him 12 CH get already. I am so thankful to the breeders who incorporated Nick into their program and am excited to see what happens next.
We had several champion beagles
McKinley – CH Kazuri’s Aint No Mountain High Enough (CH The Whims Legato x CH Hailstorm’s Feeling A Little Foxy at Kazuri)
Callie – CH Kazuri’s Everything’s Sugar N Spice (CH Bill T’s Rush to Alpenglow X CH Kazuri’s Everythings Coming Up Roses). She finished in the 13 inch TOP 20 for 2023
Murphy – CH Kazuri’s Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (CH Bill T’s Rush to Alpenglow X CH Kazuri’s Everythings Coming Up Roses) – lovingly owned by Sarah Smith-Falkner and Sarah Sweetman
Darwin – CH Kazuri’s While Dreams of Finches Danced In His Head (MBIS MBISS GCHP Kazuri’s All I Want For Christmas CGC TKN ATT X CH Kazuri’s Dreaming of An Emmy)
Buck – CH Kazuri’s Call of the Wild (GCH Van-Mar N Kazuri Brewin’ Up Trouble X CH Kazuri’s Feeling The Siren’s Call)
Ivy – CH Kazuri’s Tangled Up In Trouble (GCH Van-Mar N Kazuri Brewin’ Up Trouble X CH Kazuri’s Feeling The Siren’s Call)
Nova – CH Kazuri’s All I Want is a Supernova (MBIS MBISS GCHP Kazuri’s All I Want For Christmas CGC TKN ATT X Hailstorms Alouette)
Johnny Rose – CH JoyfulNoise N Kazuri Keeping Up With the Roses (BISS GCH Van-Mar The Duke of Hazzard X CH Kazuri’s Keeping Up Appearances) – bred with Dolly from Joyful Noise
Audrey – CH Rosehound’s Brown Eyed Girl at Kazuri (MBIS MBISS GCHP Kazuri’s All I Want For Christmas CGC TKN ATT X CH Foxtail’s Fast Curves) – bred by Bonnie and William Farrell and owned by Bonnie Farrell and Sarah Sweetman
And a Cavalier King Charles Champion also
Stevie – CH Kazuri’s You Are the Sunshine of My Life (CH Angels Pride Zakkary X LoKazuri Star Fourth In Line)
And a First time achievement for Sarah
I also won my first (personal) specialty show with Dutch (BISS GCH Van-Mar N Kazuri Brewin Up Trouble) bred by myself (Sarah Sweetman) and Chelsea Metteer and lovingly owned by Sarah Smith-Falkner, Sarah Sweetman and Chelsea Metteer. While my dogs have achieved this before, this was the first time I have been at the end of the leash for it.
I am so grateful for an incredible year of achievements. Let’s go 2024!!
Mishka’s babies are thriving and we got to bring them home. They are chubby and content and so wonderful. I am so glad this litter has been so easy. I took updated pictures – there are some cute pups in this bunch thats for sure.
Echo is keeping her little ones very satisfied and so they don’t really want to move around a whole lot yet. Their eyes have tiny peeps so we should have eyes open by the end of the week.
I am loving their bone and their lovely heads – its a very consistent looking litter and I can’t wait to see how they keep developing once they are up on their feet.
It’s a lofty goal but we are up for the challenge.
