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When we bought Glitter, our wonderful friends Diane and Bob Harrington volunteered to pick her up for us and made a 300 mile detour to Kentucky on their way back to Maine from Florida. The trip was generally uneventful they told me, but they did get a good laugh when Glitter got into Diane’s rollers in the back of the car and managed to get them all wound up in her ruff. And so she arrived here with a nice wave to her hair.
When I opened the door to the kennel room on the first morning Glitter was here, I was surprised to find the light on. I could have sworn I’d turned that light off the night before! On the second morning the light was on again. I’m such an idiot, I thought, and that night made double sure that I turned the light off when I put Glitter to bed. On the third morning the light was on again. Maybe Ed had checked on Glitter during the night and forgot to hit the switch. But when we compared notes, we saw that neither of us was to blame. Glitter was turning the light on herself. That was a good trick, too, because there’s a guard over the switch and you have to put your hand down inside to reach the switch. She’d been hopping up on the crate below the switch in order to reach it. I moved the crate to the opposite wall and it hasn’t happened since.
When Glitter got her adult coat we sent her out to the shows with Diane Steele, who’s always done a great job handling our dogs. She won a major first time out, following the next day with her second major. After that she couldn’t be beat and she finished her championship two weeks later.
Besides her championship, Glitter has her CD, back pack dog title, a Rally Advanced title, and an American Working Collie Versatility title. She now has backwards heeling down, so we’re going for our Rally Excellent title.
Do you think it’s repetitive that I’ve had two blue girls with Stardust/Stardusting names? It’s pure coincidence. Daisy and Glitter both had their names when they came to us.
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