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Hi Lida!

I wanted to share with you that last Friday I dropped Nuri off with his trainer for a herding lesson while I dealt with helping preparing for an AKC herding trial.

After the lesson, Nuri's trainer said "So ask me how Nuri did?" The answer was "FABULOUS!!!"

Nuri will be barely 9 months old (required age for a herding entry) when he will be entered in his first AKC herding trial this coming September. He is that talented!!

"Uncle Gordy" (Ruth's wonderful boy) is so proud!!

Love,

Donna

(Nuri is a Samson/Zara son)
& Gucci Grandson

In Memory of Bosse  (Bo) Nyman 
a great and dedicated man. He was the breeder of Gucci and his first handler/trainer.


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Standing at Stud:
V Dax vom Volkersberg Sch3 Kkl1-a
Click for his pedigree

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Standing at Stud:
V Samson vom Heveling  SchH3, Kkl1-a
Samson is son to 3 time VA Mack von Aducht.
Click here for his pedigree

We say Good-bye to the one and only
VA1 Triumph's Gucci

The world has lost one of the greatest examples of
"the total German Shepherd" of our time.

Lida, I'm so so, very sorry and am in tears as I write this.  I just read on the database the news about Gucci's passing and know you must be absolutely devastated.  I know how you gave up everything else (literally) to keep your word with Bosse and maintain Gucci as the great one he was. 
Lida, you did it!  You kept your word and went WELL BEYOND Bosse's expectations for Gucci.  Nobody could ever have given Gucci a better life, nor given him a better legacy than you did.  I don't know of ANYONE who has brought in a big name dog and then kept him up the way you did with Gucci.  Rest now, Lida.  Your promise has been fulfilled, Gucci's reputation is UNTARNISHED thanks to your diligence and Bosse has his friend back with him now.  But who will comfort the sweet Ms. Lida now?  That's what I'm worried about.  We're ALL here for you, Lida, so call every one of your friends and talk about Gucci until your voice is hoarse, as he will live on and on through our voices and memories. Through his children and grandchildren and that's all thanks to YOU.  Even the working line breeders admire Gucci because YOU kept his training up and made sure he showed himself here in the USA.  Your GREAT personal sacrifices (and I know how great they were) were not in vain.  Nobody else I know of has done so well with a famous dog brought into this country, Lida. Only you have done that, my friend!
Gucci, the GTreat One, the best of the best, was very lucky to have you.

May he rest in peace and be remembered forever as the ideal GSD, who lived up to his reputation his entire life, thanks to two special people.....Bosse and Lida.

Diane

Thank You, Diane. Thank You.  We all must remember the Trainer Bosse chose. Out of all the handler -trainers, who wanted to give him a "bite",  Bosse would say "not this one".  But when Russell Osburn came he said, "you and Gucci will be fine with this man".  He has been the one who has guided Gucci and I since the day he arrived here.  He loved and respected Gucci as much as I did.
The loss is as devastating to him as to me.
A SPECIAL "thanks"  goes out to Dawn Bonome for contacting the German Shepherd Database to let everyone there know of Gucci's passing.  It was such an unselfish and kind thing to do in my time of sorrow.  Thank you Dawn.