April 25, 2003
(Posted 04/28/2003 07:05 PM -0500, by Karen)

 



Well, we made it!  We're in Kalamazoo.


Right across from hotel.

Drove around the hotel four times, but we finally looked to our left and saw it!  It's a great place, and the local club has done a beautiful job with it.

Most of my rabbits have done a pretty good job keeping their coats, and 90% of their meat condition.  Anne-Marie's doe, Onyx, decided that that was too much trouble.  Her fur's so dead that when you stroke it back, it stays pointing towards her head.  It wasn't that bad a few days ago.


Showroom, which is downstairs of hotel.

Great Mini Lop fact that I picked up today... there are two main types of fur mites (which a lot of us knew), and one of them simply eats through the hair shaft.  The easiest way to take care of that is lather the rabbit up in baby oil, and let it sit.  You will have a small diarrhea problems the following day (from the rabbit trying to lick off the oil), but that will have drowned the mites off.  (Thanks to Alice Howman for that piece of info)

I spent most of the day meeting up with old friends, and Anne-Marie made new.  So, we're off now to get some sleep for tomorrow's judging.


Kelly Hansen (left) and Jeanine Schaffer (right), the beloved Secretaries!


The Show Superintendents (and Larry Walthorn, far left)

-Karen