It's official! US/Canadian Grand Victor Grand Champion Tazzman's Aregon ROM, OFA excellent, OFA elbows, heart, thyroid, HT, TC #1 Fut/Mat sire for 2011, has received the nod from Helen Franklin and can add AOE to his name! Thank you to everyone who helped in this endeavor, and especially to Julie Degen who trained Aregon for his herding title, which they achieved his first weekend out. She made it look easy, and I know with this willful guy it surely wasn't! On another note, as I harp about judges needing to be willing to evaluate dogs and put up owner handlers, even if they aren't as professionally handled as they might be.....I took our Aregon/Liberia son "Bobby" (aka Zimbabwe) to our local allbreeds this weekend, hoping maybe I could get a point or two out of the way. Or at least teach him a few manners before he went out with his handler again.....well, it wasn't pretty, but.... WD then BOB over 2 specials for 3 pt majors both days. He finished with a 5 point specialty major and 3 allbreed majors, both professionally and owner handled. We are very proud of our boy who can do both, and anything we can do to encourage owner handlers to get out there and show their own dogs (even my personal embarrassment in the ring, lol, I am getting too old for this) is a good thing.And Big Congratulations to Sharon and Stuart Birch on their futurity win in the Northwest; their home-bred sable Ike son "Luke" is absolutely gorgeous! On another note, we are trying to coordinate the juniors and our educational committee, and have been asked to help with the GSD chapter of a book on junior handling being written in Canada. Any juniors out there who have thoughts on the subject? Any input would be greatly appreciated. Sheree ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2012. 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. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. 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@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================