You Know Tami, It was wonderful seeing you there at the No. Ohio show Saturday. I cannot tell you how seeing you with your wonderful spirit and then to have such an enthusiastic young handler as this guy is, it just gave me a new "light" to showing. Travis Hower,age 12, Terry Hower's Grandson,is a fabulous young man. He is willing to listen and wanting to learn. I didn't hand him a pup that was ring trained, but one that I knew would like to go and show. It was her first time in the ring at 6 mths and 5 days old. Travis worked with her a bit before the show, and Thank YOU Judge Jamie Walker for being patient with him to make her strut her stuff in the ring. We got some super pictures of the two together. If anyone is interested, please email me. I had to laugh, couple people who I haven't seen in a long while were at the show and asked if that was my son, Rick. I wish Rick wanted to handle still, but girls,snowmobiles, and school has taken over. That's ok, as long as Travis is out there, I will be using him again. He is so cute and polite. I saw him go up to Jamie and introduce himself. After the show, I told him I wanted to buy him lunch. He told me, No Mam, it is too expensive. A banana cost 50 cents! So I bought lunch which included a sandwich, banana, cookie and chips. Travis got the banana, cookie and chips! Tari Kridler North Lima, OH http://members.aol.com/kridlersgsd Home of 2003 Amer. & Can. GVX Ch. Kridler's Ruby & her father 2 x Sel. Ch. Kridler's Quno ----- Original Message ----- From: tho@xxxxxxxxxxx To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 5:32 PM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Mystery Young,polite super handler @ N Ohio Shows When I first saw this sharply dress handsome young man go in the ring,shake hands with the judge smile and introduce himself,I was impressed! Very impressed!Then I saw him go over to ringside and actually take advice from the puppie's owner on how to make her look better and to keep her happy and having a good time...and....he did!!!!He actually followed the owners directions!Talked to ,petted and played with his lovely,puppy, bitch between dogs and paid close attention to the jusdge and the owners for last min directions.When gaiting and the judge asked for a losed lead...he dropped the lead and gave her one imdeiatly,kept eye contact with the judge with that evercharming smile all along an kept one eye on on his puppy making sure she stayed confident and happy and a couple of time stopped and restarted when she was eith galloping or went into a pace!Ive seen OLD PROS not even do this or act put out by having to do it!Oh yeah and I also checked out his knees and back..lol This boy is still is great shape folksfor 9-10 or whatever he is,,!We better keep him and in healthy shape too! Charm,Health,Talent,love of dogs and no big head(yet)Great discovery Tari! Now we all need to go to work on Grandpa and is pearents to let us keep him!!! Lopsided Medusasmom'Tami Howard & Duce (who also adored him..how can we go wrong?) T-Ho Shepherds since 1980 who had a great time seeing so many wonderful friends yesterday! I love you all! ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2005. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================