06/27/2026
This was on my FB memories today. This is our foundation stud, CH NMK Wing And A Prayer’s Scouting God’s Country.
At that time I didn’t know a single person in our breed. I had no friends and no mentor but I wanted to learn. Mom and I wanted a VERY good dog. I went to the Westminster Dog Show website and started looking up distinguished kennels who were frequently winning. From there, I clicked on the website of NMK and on the homepage was “available male puppy”, that was Scout.
Knowing absolutely nothing, we found dog show conformation classes in Houston and started going. From there we found a handler. We hit the shows pretty early when Scout was 6 months old. We never, ever, left this dog. On my website I have a video of Scout winning Best Puppy In Show. Mom and I strategically stood where Scout could always see us, or he cried. This is 100% true!!!! My mom or I personally went to every show. We slept in hotels with Scout. During this time we started meeting people ringside. MULTIPLE people would ask us, how did someone like YOU get a pup as distinguished as this? At that time I didn’t understand either but I can tell you this…. My mom prayed about everything, every decision she made, including finding us a stud dog.
My mom was extremely active in ministry. She drove a trike motorcycle for the Christian Motorcycle Association and that group traveled wherever they thought they could spread the gospel. Everyone on our street (mom lived across the street from me) knew they could go to her for prayer. Mom would meet my kids and any other child from our neighborhood for prayer in front of her house before school. When I wrote my mom’s eulogy, I spent almost the entire time talking about my Mom being a woman of prayer.
Later when we finally shipped dogs to dog shows, my mom would pray for the dogs even with the oil (I’m not joking).
Mom and I would later agree that us owning Scout was a result of prayer.
Scout is sired by a dog named Grant. He would go on to be Show Sire Of The Year 3 or 4 times. I think he has over 70 AKC Champion get. Grant is sired by Duncan, another extremely distinguished stud dog, again, 3x Show Sire Of The Year (one time tied with his son, Grant) and I think he has around 53 AKC Champion get.
WAAP tapped into one of the greatest GSP bloodlines of all time, and we didn’t even know it.
From there we went to work. We put as many dogs in shows as possible. The very first pairing of Scout and Faith (WAAP’s Faith Moves Mountains) produced 8 AKC Champions, 3 Grand Champions, and a Best In Show winner (in 3 litters). After learning the rules of breeding and health clearances, we could later breed our *itches to anybody we wanted. We took our *itch, Hope, and bred to Sharp Shooters. That pairing produced Sport MH. We now had 2 very fine studs.
As of writing this, Mom and I either bred or owned 42 AKC Champions, Grand Champions, 2 Best In Show Winners, Senior Hunters, Master Hunters, and many top 25 nationally ranked dogs or *itches. Junior Hunters are not included in those numbers. We also bred a SAR canine who found an infant during hurricane Harvey. This all started in 2012.
I’m not sure why I took all this time to write this other than to give a shout out on behalf of my beloved mother. Without her faithfulness, I have no doubt WAAP would not be where we are today. Mom touched many lives, she even touched some of y’all.
Many, many, times we saw God’s hand on WAAP, the miracle of Scout coming to us being the first.