Good Dog (People) – Part three
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By Sarah Montague
PART 3: We Can Do This: Phil Boyce and Sarah Krickeberg Inspire Their Communities
Sarah Krickeberg and Phillip Boyce have very different characters—Phil is diffident and wry; Sarah is like a super-model, super mom, figure skater without the vanity or snark. What they have in common is the way they responded to COVID—by harnessing community.
Phil Boyce Gets on His White Horse
Boyce got into dogs the way William Wegman got into photography—a beautiful Weimaraner changed his life. He was called Cody Blue and everyone who saw him told Boyce he had to show him. So he started him, and 15 months later he had a champion.
Boyce, whose Edgefield Kennels are based in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, was at the York Kennel Club show when the pandemic hit. He spent a little time deliberating, then decided to suggest to his local clubs (the Lackawanna Kennel Club at first) that they take steps to try to put on a show.
He felt he was paying a debt. Cody had died in a house fire in 2019, and that fire is what led Boyce to step up during the pandemic. “The fancy was very supportive and I wanted to give people something to look forward to, like they gave to me. Which was hope,” he says.
When he started investigating, he realized that it was going to take a lot of work. So what started as an impulse to give people “something to look forward to that wasn’t this mundane walled-in world” turned into a 60-hour week.
First, he helped local clubs work out their procedures, and takes pride in the fact that when the AKC’s guidelines were published shortly afterwards, “my rules matched about 85%.”
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