Am/Can/SKC Ch. Ell Bee’s Sooner Bee Travlin, SOM "Buster Brown"

      "Buster Brown" was, & always will be, the love of my life.  He was bred by Donna & Lennie Blumberg, from their Am/Can/ Ch. Ell Bee’s Son Of BIS out of their Am/Can. Ch. Bellcrest Just It From Ell Bee (bred by Shirley Bell of Bellcrest fame).    He was a double grandson of BIS Ch. Ell Bee’s Just Watch Out. "BIS" was the number one Boxer in the U.S. in 1982, (I hope I have that year right!).

     All my Boxers are cherished, but I believe there is always that one special one that claims the biggest piece of your heart & never turns it loose. Given my means of being able to show, I should have never been allowed the singular honor of owning this wonderful Boxer. He was much too good for me, & I will never feel that I did right by him, even though he earned three Championships & his Sire of Merit award. Luckily he was good enough to take up where I left off in ability in the ring. The first points he won for me at 9 months old were Best of Breed & Group 1 for a 4 point major, and he won Breed the next day as well.   Two weeks later he again won the Breed, as well as a Group 3.

     At the Dallas Boxer Club Spring Specialty, he was Reserve Winners, and later after a trip to Canada to finish his Canadian Championship, came back to go Best of Winners at the Dallas Boxer Club Fall Specialty, finishing with another 4 point major, owner handled, with his Breeders, Donna & Lennie Blumberg, there to cheer for him. That was probably the best day of my life. I took him to only five States Kennel Club shows.   There he finished his SKC Championship, winning the Breed in the first four, also winning 1st in the Group at each, and at his fifth, he won the Breed & a Group 3.

     I kept 3 puppies by Buster Brown.  Two are from Ch. Rain-Tree's Can't Touch This, ("Chessie").   They are Am/Can/Ec/SKC/Int. Ch. Breho Sanjac E Z Travlin, "Easy" & "Holly", Am/SKC/Int. Ch. Breho Sanjac Travlin Fancy.  Ch. LoneStar Breho Kitty Hawk, "Hawk" is out of Ch. Breho LoneStar Hearts Afire.  I also have his granddaughter & half-sister "BeeBee", Ch. Alcyn's Bayou Bijou, who looks so much like Buster, & is so dear to us.  She was bred by Cyndi & A.L. Parker, Jr. & is co-owned with A. L. Parker, Jr., who graciously let her come here to live with us.

This was one of Buster's Best Friends Willie.

I lost Buster at 10 years, and his ashes await mine.