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Schroeder is a dog who loves being in the spotlight.  He was, however, a true challenge in the ring as a young dog because you never knew whether he would be showing off as a perfectionist or as a clown.  He would take a certain stance and get that "look" in his eye and I knew I was in for an interesting ring experience.  Many times I knew the judge appreciated his conformation and thought our chances were good only to have him decide he was not ring trained.  In spite of himself, he had managed to accumulate 12 points with a major but getting that last major was proving difficult so I decided that perhaps Debbi could help us out with a communication. 

At the end of 4 frustrating days of showing, we walked across the New Castle show grounds to see Debbi and before we could really get started, she had sized up this silly boy to a tee.  Schroeder crawled up into Debbi's lap as well as a Basset can and they started talking to each other about some very important things.  I was asked what I wanted to know and my response was, "Why does he insist on making us look bad in the ring?"  His response was, "Do you want a fun dog or a perfect dog?"  My response, "I want a perfectly fun dog."  We discussed some of Schroeder's shortcomings and attributes, I was told that he really didn't like being called Schroeder and preferred Roady and home we went.

Two weeks later was our next show so off we went to see what might happen this day as there was a major.  We stood ringside waiting our turn and as we walked in the ring, I said "Come on Roady."  Up went that head and as we were going through our pattern I kept looking down the lead trying to figure out who that dog was who looked so much like Schroeder.  That day, he took Winners Dog and Best of Winners for the major and his championship and since that day, he has been a much different show dog than before.  He has even gone so far as to earn a Group 2 with mom on the end of the lead.  Many thanks to Debbi for helping both of us out and making our showing experiences more enjoyable!

Edna Morris

Schroeder