Within two weeks arrangements were made to fly him to Illinois. The poor boy was going to have to fly into O'hare. Well he really does love to fly especially as co-pilot of a bush plane. He was a little unsure of his car ride in Anchorage to the otherside of the airport but did it. He arrived at O'hare where a friend picked him up at the airport, a two hour drive later he was transeferred to another friend for the final drive to his destination of the Quad Cities. He was such a cool belgian shepherd during this time, one of the drivers, Lise, was ready to keep him. He never shied of the people or the noises he heard, he just took it all in. When he got to Roxanne's his first intro in the house was to a ceiling fan. He never cowered he did as he has with everything, sat down watched it for a moment and went oh well and kept right on into the house. Two weeks later Rox decided to take him to a show in Des Moines since they would be camping and he could adjust to it from a distance. Well that was not the boys style, by the 2nd day he was parading through the vendors, shopping for his own toys. It took 6 months to get his coat in condition to be shown and his debut was the Belgian Sheepdog National Specialty with photos below where he placed 2 nd in th open class. 3 weeks later he made his official ring debut and in a single weekend garned 9 points and both majors. 2 more weekends and he is a finished Champion.
Thank you Mickie for providing the love and nurturing for his first 17 months and to Roxanne for showing the boys potential for the rest of his life and to Twister and Travis for this awesome boy.
