In Loving Memory

“Handsome Ransom” was my dad’s buddy and lived in Oklahoma City with my parents. He went everywhere with dad and gave us all much joy in his too-short life. Tragically, Ransom decided to go hunting on his own in September of 2004. He escaped their yard and was struck and killed by a car. We feel his loss as strongly today as then.

Not long ago, when all of us were together, reminiscing, we all agreed that the best way to describe Ransom was as an "Old Soul". He was so intelligent and somehow "knowing". You could just see it in his eyes. Perhaps that is attributing too much human character to a dog, but I don't think so.

Ransom was very keen from the age of five months, when he entered an active groundhog earth and bayed at its dug-in resident (it had evaded the older, experienced dogs, so we knew it had walled up). A couple of months later, Ransom located his own groundhog and caused it to bolt. We made him wait until the following summer to go out again. But when he did, he earned his NHC, the first for Prairie Creek.

Ransom won multiple conformation classes, including a second at the 2001 JRTCA Nationals but nothing surpasses his sheer ability to make us smile. We miss him so very much.

Sire

Dam

Glen Coe Blu

Hart Farms Ruse