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Dog shows draw people from all over because they love dogs and have become addicted to showing them off, said Elaine McIntyre, an 18-year show veteran from San An tonio. Looking over the grounds sur rounding the arena, I readily agreed with her as I counted over 100 parked trucks, buses, trailers, cam pers and station wagons. Some were large enough to carry the entire “Hello Dolly” touring company. Peeking inside of a van, I saw cage after cage of dogs stacked on spe cially made shelves. The show itself reminded me of a beauty contest. Even the basic make-up equipment was the same. Scissors, combs, brushes, hairspray, curlers, tweezers and nail files. If some lipstick or nail polish had been added. Miss U.S.A. could have pre pared herself for a pageant with any dog handler’s kit. Dog owners prepare their show pets on grooming tables which they bring from home. Each table has a scaffold attached and each scaffold has a hangman’s noose dangling from it to hold the dog still. As a result, the grooming area resembles death row where several hundred dogs await execution by strangling. Beauty is enforced here — the hard way. Clip, comb, brush. Piles of matted dog hair accumulate on the arena floor. A gust of wind blows them all over the dog owner at the neighbor ing table. It becomes almost impossible to breathe because in certain areas of the grooming area owners are using cornstarch or chalk to whiten their dog’s fur. “I spray white chalk on my dog’s fur to make it whiter so she’ll stand out more in the ring,” said Alicia Rothlein, a 14-year-old from San An tonio. “Then I use a blow dryer to get the chalk out, but leave the color in. ” The American Kennel Club for bids the use of colored chalk. If the judge pats a dog and gets a blast of powdered dust in his face, he may disqualify the dog. The owner’s se cret is to shake out just enough chalk so no bursts occur. The AKC also considers aerosol hair spray illegal. It is used by own ers to keep their poodle’s coat frizzed up. Rothlein started helping her mother prepare show dogs when she was 11 years old. At the age of 12, she began showing her own dog. She helps her mother with a preparation called stripping. This procedure in volves pulling out the hair of a dog’s coat. This allows the handler to monitor the growth and quality of the new hair growing in. The strip ping process takes about one hour to complete. “We start the procedure when the puppy is six months old,” said Roth lein. “It doesn’t hurt them. They love it because they are getting lots ******************-*.* {gamble your life awayl{ * * * * * * * ★ * * * * * * * RHA CASINO NIGHT FRIDAY, APRIL 14th Ticket Sales This Week At MSC 11:00 - 3 SBSA 4:30 - 6:30 Commons 4:30 - 6:30 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * new car financing for graduating seniors. And defer the first payment for six months. Pick out the car you want, start driving it now, then begin your payments after you go to work. 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At the souvenir counter, I exam ine a variety of dog snacks, dog shampoos, leashes, collars, ashtrays, glasses, prints, etc. The dog’s cosme tic department would give Maybel- line hearty competition. Chew Stop, Flea Stop, Tick Stop, tear stain re mover, colored chalk etc. It takes 15 AKC points to “finish” a dog and win the title of Champion. These points are obtained in a con test called confirmation. Confirma tion deals with the dog’s ability to walk on a lead, stand still where the owner leaves him and the quality of the dog as compared to others of its breed. The number of points awarded range from one to five depending on the number of dogs or bitches (female dogs) competing in that breed. The dogs are compared to their breed standard and not each other. “In confirmation, the judge looks at the dog from far back,” said De nise Sharp, a member of the Brazos Valley Kennel Club and Dalmatian owner. “He feels the coat and the structure of the dog. After he exam ines it, the judge sends it out to run. If the dog has a defect, it will show in its gait. “The judge may reposition all the top dogs together and have them gait again.” A dog show is no longer the semi exclusive, genteel sport it once was. “Confirmation is a very competi tive and very cut throat because only the top dog gets any points toward their championship,” said Sharp. “It is much more competitive than hones c These dogs are being tested for their obedience skills as t!ieii||j masters look on. The judge checks the dogs’ stance, formaKj ven g r facial expression before deciding the winner. The dog sWj. p r0 se was held Saturday at the Brazos County Arena on Tabor That i Road. obedience where everyone can qual ify for points.” For an obedience title, the dog must pass three shows. Each show passed is called a leg. The dog must get 170 points out of a possible 200. The animal must get at least 50 per cent of those points in each exercise. Biittnlion photo by Brad Williat )lve at (ebate t Rudd and Open. The dog then competes for Bt|All th Breed. The breed winners comBfere against each other for Group io.se si ner. These groups are calledSwgran A dog progresses in stages toward the award that is its highest glory — Best in Show. However, dogs of the same breed must first compete against themselves in various classes. The classes are: Puppy, Novice, Bred by Exhibitor, Bitches CUSTOM EXHAUST SHOCK ABSORBERS AMERICAN OR FOREIGN CARS TRAILER HITCHES BRYAN MUFFLER SHOP 1309 S. COLLEGE 822-2612 CHARLES S. KINARD (OWNER) - CLASS OF '57 (SUPPORTING A&M) ing, Hound, Terrier, Working.joroth> and Non-sporting. Finall) fDeba group winners compete andonei Four is chosen Best in Show. Blor The prizes awarded tothe\ test chi winners were donated by localki Housi nesses and included a four-pieu &M U fee server, rosettes, wall plamd Te> silver plates, bowls and cup &M’s colorful ribbons. 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Gill Now For Information 6SM014 UttHwy.a Huntsville Hwy. 693-2933 ADVERTISEMENT It's Really Something “And can it be that I should gain an int’rest in the Savior’s blood?” This is the first line of a hymn which I have really enjoyed ever since the first time I heard it just a few years ago. The reason is that it describes so well the experience I had just come to have, and the way it happened is still to me both in credible and yet wonderfully real. Before that time I was not in the habit of listening to Christian hymns. In fret, I made every effort to avoid places where songs such as this were being sung. It was not that I didn’t like music; quite the opposite was the case. I had a rec ord collection containing over 300 albums which I played constantly. To me a good time was getting high and listening to music. I spent hours lying on my bed with stereo head phones over my ears. Even more than this I liked to go to con certs and hear live music. It seemed to me that the greatest ex perience would be not listening to music but playing music. I regret ted not having been more desper ate to learn to play the drums when I had had them. Though I owned a guitar, somehow the notes didn’t flow when I picked it up, so I never really got very far with that. Even tually I also took two semesters ol class piano but never developed a level of proficiency to satisfy myself on this instrument either. I envied everyone who could play music well. There were two persons I knew who were both excellent musi cians. One was a friend, Jim, and the other was my younger brother. Jay. Jim could play saxophone, flute, guitar, and piano, and Jay was an exceptionally good guitarist.. I loved to listen to them practice, and we spent a good deal of time together, many times discussing why things were the way they are. In one of those discussions we talked about Christianity and Jim and I both agreed this was defi nitely not the way to go. We de cided that if God existed, He must be just a kind of force or principle under which the universe was gov erned. How we arrived at this con clusion I do not remember. I expected all along that Jim and Jay would really go far as musi cians, until the day I heard that Jim had decided to quit playing music. I couldn’t believe it until I talked to him myself. He told me that he realized how temporal everything was and said he wanted to find something lasting. He began searching, and not long afterward I heard some more startling news — now Jim had become a Christian. This turn of events had no slight impact on me. At that time, apart from musical ability, I had nearly everything I thought I should want, friends, a girlfriend, and good grades in school. Why, I wondered, would Jim throw away the one thing I yet desired? And didn t we agree that this was a miserable way to waste a lifetime? To imagine that he had flipped out was not a satisfactory explanation, for I had always thought Jim to be a most sensible person and respected the things he had to say. But now I was truly perplexed. I had to find out from him what this was all about. When I talked to him I could tell he had changed. His smiled seemed so genuine as he talked to me about Jesus. The Jesus he was ADVERTISEMENT talking about was not a statue you prayed to but a Person "I lives His life inside you. I know what to make of it, couldn’t say for sure that Jim $ not experiencing what he was ^ ling me about. The more I talked! him, the more I started to gain* 1 interest. However, I realized that Jes«| had a personality and that many the things I enjoyed doing wei not agreeable to Him. Could ll* sure that if I were to abandon diet things that He would be * ! adequate replacement? Or would! experience the same fullness th*' Jim had? I decided not to chance# so for about four months I tried!' forget the whole thing. Sonieho" wasn’t working. At the end oftl* four months I went with Jim to* Christian meeting, intending*! terwards to go to a beer blast were throwing at the co-op hous 1 where I lived. In that meeting' found I could no longer resist tl>' Lord Jesus. For the first time caught a glimpse of how much H e really is, and I couldn’t help bo 1 want Him. That night I prayed receive Him, and in that same in; stant I was washed by His and filled with His Spirit. Needles* to say, I never made it to the part) Since that day I could never sett* for anything less than Christ Him self. I’m still amazed that I could be “found in Him”, but this is tbf reality. It’s really something, I be lieve in Him. I bn 1 Doug Gedeon, grad. Computing Science 846-0610 Paid for by Christian students on campus. 1