I have been in pure-bred dogs since childhood. The first dog I showed belonged to our neighbor and it was a chow puppy. I also rode horses and ponies and when I went off to college I took my horse with me and I continued to ride and foxhunt in Virginia while in college.

After marriage, I was unable to keep my horse and later Bob and I got a German Shepherd Dog and we trained him in Obedience and showed him in Conformation. After graduate school, I got Bob an American Foxhound and we began showing and breeding Foxhounds. We were lucky to have gotten such o good Foxhound and Bob put 16 Group wins and 4 Best in Shows and over 60 Group placements on this hound, Owner/Handled. We have bred five generations of Best in Show hounds Owner/Handled.

In 1978 I began to judge and my first two breeds were American Foxhounds and Beagles. I am now an All Breed judge for AKC. I have judged all over the world; Hound shows in Australia and shows in Sweden, China, Japan and Thailand. My favorite assignment was the Working Group at the 2005 AKC Eukanuba Invitational.

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