06/08/2025
Pending water test, this hunk is now known as FC SOUTHPAW BOOTLEGGER
He has had a true village of people to recognize him for more than the average dog; he was a special guy from the first time I turned him out. After I started him, the late great Mo Lindley took a shine to him and got him reliably broke on pigeons around a year old. From there my friend Andrew Campbell also saw something good and took him to south GA, polishing him on enormous covies. My life took a turn and I began looking for another owner to help me keep Shiner in the game. David Melnick stepped up to the plate and we sent him out west with Ike Todd to honor Ike’s all-age pointers all summer. Shiner came back fast and forward with all the style and some to spare. He has always been a classy boy with a long nose and a beautiful, sane, easy dog to live with.
Fast forward and Shiner took the blue in 4 of the 4 stakes he ran this spring with Andrew at the helm. While not an easy task we decided early on that he would run against the A-list in a particularly difficult area for weims. Andrew was a huge advocate for him and put his heart and soul into getting him to where he is now.
He was THE ONLY WEIMARANER in all of the stakes he won. He has placed several times in 25-35 dog stakes, again as the only Weim. I don’t know who the last Weim was to finish this way but none—or very few that I can find—in the last few decades.
Enormous thanks to the people who have helped, encouraged, worked with this special dog, and his owners! I know Mo is smiling down right now 🥰
