2012 ABC National Specialty Best of Breed Winner
Good things don’t happen overnight and after nearly 20 years of selective
breeding and collaboration with others you get a breeding that looks promising
and end up losing all but two pups to a quirk of nature.
We knew Beckett was special from the start. Beckett was one of the two
survivors from a difficult rst litter. Beckett started early on putting himself out
there. He seems to have been born with a positive self-image and a pay attention to
me attitude. When evaluated at 8 weeks we knew he was something special.
His puppy hood was pretty happy go lucky, lled with long romps out doors
and early exposure to birds. Raised in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, he’s
de nitely a country boy. As he grew he really liked going down to the creek for
long runs with the “big” dogs and some bird work. He learned very quickly and was
standing steady and looking good pretty early on.
We did take Beckett to conformation classes which he enjoyed, probably
because of the chance to play with other puppies and to exert his “Hey, look at
me, I something special!” attitude. We didn’t have a chance to do much with him in
Colorado, as the shows were small, so he went off to Texas with Karen Livingston. It
took him a show or two before he realized that he needed to behave and once he
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