Congratulations! I love watching the herding, have even put HT's on my dogs for fun. That is a wonderful accomplishment and you also get credit because a lot of the success in herding is the dog handler. Believe me I know as I am terrible with the sheep! Sheri Chambers Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:20:47 -0400 From: dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Herding brag I just wanted to share a milestone accomplishment just earned by my 4 year old sable longcoat "Maya vom Binderhaus". Some of you may remember a previous brag from Maya as at the time she earned her PAM she was the youngest GSD to have accomplished the PAM (at 20 months of age). Well, she has gone on from there and now adds another accomplishment: she has completed the requirements for her Herding Excellent "C" Masters title! This means that after having earned her HXC title, she has gone on to qualify at least 8 more times, showing consistently good work. I just got off the phone with AKC and have confirmed that she is the first FEMALE GSD to have earned this title. Her father "HC Juno vom Binderhaus" was the first dog of all breeds to have earned the title and remains the only other GSD to have this title at this time. In fact the AKC office tells me that aside from Maya, only FOUR dogs of all breeds have earned this difficult title! (So now we are five...). As Maya is young--she has many more trials ahead of her and hopefully someday in the future we'll be announcing her HC! Thanks for letting me brag, Cynthia Binder DVM Binderhaus Shepherds