Earning treats: Julie Virosteck's parti-color cocker spaniel Ch. Doggone Baditude shines in AKC shows.

From: Daily Press (Victorville, CA) | Date: January 13, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Stuart Kellogg

Jan. 13--To look around Julie Virosteck's living room is to swim in a sea of cocker spaniels: portraits of cockers; cockers embroidered on pillows; everywhere one looks, another alert yet soulful face.

But the main event in December was the very alive Ch. Doggone Baditude, a red-and-white, parti-color cocker bred and raised by Virosteck at Doggone Cockers, her kennel in Lucerne Valley.

The initials "Ch." stand for Champion of...

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