I must share with my berner-l friends a shopping tip -- don't leave the Specialty without your own pair of the lucky green socks!!!
At the Spokane Specialty I was browsing before obedience and came upon a booth with some great berner socks. I bought the green ones, put them right on, did obedience and walked away with High in Trial!!! It had to be the socks!! I was a believer and made sure and bought an extra pair. Since then my dogs have been accumulating titles left and right -- I attribute this to the lucky green socks. But there is more! Last month I wanted to get something for Valerie Horney as a thank you for letting me stay with her during the Denver shows so I bought her a pair of the lucky green socks. Since she was showing, I put them in her tack box. Valerie got Winner's Bitch, finishing the girl, and then took Best of Breed from the veterans class with Ready!!! Apparently you do not even have to be wearing the lucky green socks to have them work for you! Still a skeptic??? This weekend a boy from my A litter was showing in Arizona. His owner, newly in possession of her own pair the lucky green socks, made certain to wear them. In addition, the dog was being shown by the woman who sells the lucky green socks -- Nancy Stewart. With that much involvement from the lucky green socks, how could the dog lose??? He didn't -- Best of Breed both days for his third and fourth majors!! I plan to get a ten years supply but just in case there are any left, you might want to get your own lucky green socks at the Specialty ;) Mary-Ann Bowman Emma, Abra, Maize and Halo Utah
