In the spring of 1984, Jim and I graduated from medical school, got married, and acquired our first Siberian Husky, all within a 3 week period. Aurora was a wonderful pet and we were hooked on Siberians. We didn’t get involved in showing in conformation until 1991, when we met Leslie Cranford through a mutual friend. Leslie’s daughter, Jaley, and our daughter, Alex, had just turned a year old. They became best friends and played together while Jim and I learned about showing and breeding Siberians from Leslie. Leslie even allowed Jim and I to borrow two of her finished champions to take to a weekend handling seminar. I attended some of my first shows with Leslie in the summer of 1993, when I was hugely pregnant with my son, Paul.
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