4. Day – This time "only" as a show visitor

Vica
Vica
Jane und Phil visited us

This day Linda and I had looked forward to we were very pleased. We could observe, nevertheless, today not only completely the show events (very relaxed) – we would also see Vica and Kim again after two years, the daughter of Striker and Raffles who lives in Kentucky. Kim, Vica’s owner, had driven three hours up to the show with her friend Michelle to meet Linda and me. We spent a relaxed day with marvelous summer weather and, besides the ring although we sat in the shade all of us got sunburned. Vica will start her show career the next month with Kim showing her for the first time out. She has developed into a wonderful bitch; however, she has for American standards a head that's to short. But Jeff is optimistic that she will go her way and gain the Champion title. Brother Venco who lives in Finland has, already won two Champion titles …
In the evening Jane and Phil Gray, the parents of Patrice (the breeders of the "Owlwatch" kennel and „mummy and dad“of Flyer) joined us. they specially drove up to Ohio to see us both In their new Smart car, and are now judges in the AKC (American Kennel club) and judge not only Danes, but also whippets (Whippets they also breed very successfully). We sat in comfortable circle together and, besides had a lot to laugh about, not in the least because of Michelle and the amusing photographer Phil, not forgetting Jeff who always has a trick or two up his sleeve they made us laugh a lot. And talking about breeding of course again.  If Dane people are together, the main topic is the breeding of these gentle giants. In front of our Motel we ended the evening talking with Donald and Dianne Westermeyer whose harlequin bitch had become "Winners Bitch" the day before under Linda, and the Irishman now living in the USA Neill O ‘Sullivan and his niece, He is a Geneticist and knows the Dane’s in America inside and out, and deals with genetics and the Merle gene.