The handlers are the ones that screw up, ... You've got to keep that target out in front and it's hard to do. That dog is 40 feet away and going Mach 12 right at you and you've got to time it.

I'd say of the upper echelon, about 50 percent are hunting dogs, ... But a lot of people just have French poodles and their family pet.

I pitched in front of 10,000 people in the minors but I've never been so nervous as standing in front of 1,500 people. ... You're it, you're the guy when that dog goes back and sits.

It used to be that contests were more regionalized. Now it's a world market. Technology has made it so you can send a boat anywhere in the world or charter a boat at any location and compete.

It seems pretty fast. They definitely didn't have anything like this when I was a kid.

They said, 'Hey, you've got a good dog,'

What everybody says about Missy is that she's so consistent, ... Of all her jumps in the first three events, all but two have been elites. There's nobody even close in the database like that.

We also have a terrier and I think that's how she got so fast,

We doubled our circulation from the first issue to the second. There were over 100,000 copies printed on the second issue and we are looking at continuing that growth through the remainder of 2005 and into 2006.

When that dog jumps, the crowd just goes 'a-w-w-w!'