Page 63 - Aussie Magazine - 2023 Issue 2
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Text written & photographs provided by: Melanie Raymond, Dialynne
Tell us about your handling beginnings? When full of children with Whippets who just stood
have you shown for the first time? Was the there perfectly. This Beagle was so ‘naughty’ I
Beagle your first dog for showing? tapped it on the bottom, not hard and stormed
My first and actual last handling experience out the ring. I was in tears too, vowing never
I had was at an open show where Mum was to step foot in the ring ever again. I was very
on the Committee and she gave me a friend’s strong willed as a child and I knew my mind.
Beagle pup to take in the junior handling class That ended my time in the ring for many years.
I was around 6 years old at the time. Anyone Instead I went into ponies and did quite well
who knows Beagles knows they are not easy show jumping with my 12.2 Welsh Cob named
especially ‘untrained’ puppies. I stood in a ring Spook and The Pony Club.
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