 Barked: Sat Jan 26, '13 5:04pm PST |
 | |  | | There was a breeder with another breed whom I admired quite a bit who became an important mentor to me. For me it didn't matter that she had another breed - I learned so much from her. We went to shows and shared a tent, she handled my first clumber for me, and I took handling and general training lessons from her. It probably actually worked better as a mentorship because she had a different breed (another sporting breed). She would put a conformation title on her dogs and then put them through all their hunt titles, and then go on to do obedience and agility with her dogs. And she was so inspiring in her health testing and awareness. She not only did OFA and other testing on her breeding stock, she had all her puppies tested (even the ones who were "just pets"). She wanted all the health information she could get and felt you needed it on all available data points so to speak. She wanted sound, good tempered, working dogs with great conformation. She is everything I look up to in a breeder and trainer and I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to learn from her. |  |  | |  |
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