Spring-Ford Student is a National Dog Show Winner

An area middle-schooler competes with her dog - and others! - at the highest levels.

Spring-Ford seventh grader Berkeley Thompson already has a job that she loves, even though she's just twelve years old.  Thompson competes regularly as a handler on the dog show circuit, and has won multiple awards and titles for both herself and the dogs she shows.  A handler is the person you see showing off dogs in the ring at a dog show. Handlers may or may not own the dogs they show, and many of them show multiple breeds. A handler needs to know all the details about every dog they handle, including how best to present the dog to a judge and how to get the dog to behave in the ring.  Thompson got started three years ago at age nine. "We got a Lab, and we went to training," Thompson said.  The trainer was Sue Bani, a Limerick resident …

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