He was a beautiful dog - wasted!! Lucy, I want to jump on the "Gideon" bandwagon. I certainly do not think this dog was wasted. And the last time I saw him he had ALL his teeth! There were a few very clever breeders in the northeast part of the US that took advantage of him. I happened to have been there when Joanne let Elaine Lessig bring him to California. I am never the first person to defend Joanne (and she will clearly agree) but in this instance she had no bad intentions. She absolutely thought she was doing the right thing. She was rather sad sending him off. I had taken advantage of him through his son Ch Fair Oaks Rampage who is behind every lovely dog I own today. The few people that did use him and there were not many which is certainly not Joanne's fault, are still basing their breeding program on his background. I always believed that Joanne sent him to someone that she felt would have a better shot at breeding and campaigning him because she was showing her Freddie. Very hard to show two good dogs at the same time here in the US by the same owner. Whatever feeling you two women have for one another is not a problem of mine. But I would like to say that dog was sent here at a time in the US that Cavaliers were really in a state of turmoil. He unfortunately had gotten caught in a rift once he was no longer in Joanne's control. I am sure she has regrets about sending him away as do you. But I am very glad that dog was here and will live on in the dogs that carry him in their background. Linda Berman
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