10 Questions ...

Profession: 

My first profession was journalist and my second career was stockbroker/certified financial planner.
Dog-sport involvement: 

I’ve done most everything. Started in obedience and have dabbled in most all the sports. I’m winding down 25 years of judging now and still competing in obedience.
Hometown: 

Memphis, TN
Astrological sign: 

Leo

 

1. Do you have any dog-show superstitions?  

  Not really

 

2. TV-show guilty pleasure? 

Stephen Colbert

 

3. If you were president of AKC for one day, what would you do?  

Increase the PR programs to highlight the value of purebred dogs.

 

4. Most valued material possession? 

My dogs.

 

5. What is something no one would guess about you? 

I’m heir to a vast fortune. Oh wait, that’s just one of my fantasies.

 

6. Who would you compare yourself to? 

 I’m pretty much one of a kind.

 

7. What are you “famous” for?  

Infamous is more like it.

 

8. What are your thoughts on Social Media?

 Too often expressed.

 

9. What was more memorable, your most satisfying win or disappointing defeat? And what was it? 

A win. The day we finished my beloved Timmy, at nearly nine years old. For many reasons, he was about six when I got in a position to show again. He was a solid, old fashioned dog in a period when German Shepherds were weedy and slab sided. And he was a jerk. When he won a big Open class on the old Oklahoma circuit, his handler threatened the other handlers in Winners with sending him home with them to show if they beat him. They didn’t.

 

10. What do you wish someone  would ask you? 

I’m an open book. Ask me anything.