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ARTICLE HIGHLIGHTS:
The following are excerpts from the current issue of The Ridgeback Register

Ready for My Close-Up, Mr. DeMille

Meet leading ladies Sunny and Michelle
By Theresa M. Lyons

It's dawn at Chicago park on the shore of Lake Michigan. The ground is snow covered, the air crisp with the fragrance of winter. A woman walks her Ridgeback before the day awakes, and time is lost.

A squirrel crosses in front of them ...

... and just like that, the Kodak moment evaporates.

"She drug me like a sled," laughs Michelle Michael, recalling the time Sunny (Ch. Strasridge Sunkissed by Jordon) turned her into a toboggan while chasing that squirrel. By the time she was able to gain control of Sunny - a top-10 Ridgeback and Best of Opposite Sex at Westminster this year - taxi drivers had pulled up to laugh and watch the show.

Lost and Found

A good nose and great drive make a successful search-and-rescue Ridgeback
By Matthew Valdivia

The hiker parked his car near the aptly named Great Dismal Swamp that straddles the coastal plains of Virginia and North Carolina.

By morning, he had not returned.

"There was a really bad storm overnight, and all the trails were flooded," remembers Kim Willis of Chesapeake Va., perhaps the nation's most accomplished Ridgeback search-and-rescue handler.

Like the proverbial needle in a haystack, the hiker was lost somewhere in the 111,000-acre swamp, whose peat-colored water had swelled to make most areas impassable.

Yankee Workshop

An American dog and his entourage navigate culture shock at Crufts
By Denise Flaim

"It was like a trade fair that just happened to have a dog show in it," Alicia says. "You had to wade through all the concessions to get to the back of building where the rings and benching area were. They are not the focal point," an observation that was echoed this year by some show officials, who worried that the dog show was being eclipsed by doggie-dancing displays and related "razzamatazz."

Shop until you drop - or until the MasterCard maxes out - was a definite temptation. "They had an actual roadmap for the concessions, which were laid out in streets," Alicia says, ticking off the endless variety of merchandise for sale, from the obvious (leashes and collars, doggie beds, antique canine statuary and prints) to the not so (men's tweed jackets and $5,000 hand-carved rocking horses).

Patty did her share to boost the British economy, starting with a special-ordered Swarovski-crystal-inset collar and leash - at a cost of about $200, for each piece.

New & Improved Features:

• A lush new wide size -- 9 1/8" wide x 11" high -- at no extra cost to you.

• We have also expanded our judges list to over 325 judges.

• And we are continuing the upgrades and freebies that make the Ridgeback Register the best bargain for your advertising dollar: Additional photos, screens, reverses and bleeds are FREE.

• As always, professional ad design is included in the cost of the advertisements.

• Back by popular demand: 2-Color Advertising. Can't afford full color, but don't want plain black and white? This is the answer. Check out the rates page for more information.

But there's one area where we think more is less, and that's advertising rates. Though we are increasing the dimensions of the magazine and widening the circulation to include an expanded, up-to-the-minute roster of judges licensed to judge our breed, our advertising rates are NOT increasing. Always lower than any other, our rates will stay that way for 2006.

Always lower than any other, our rates are simply the best price in town.