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Himel

AM/CAN/UKC CH. Geistvoll Magellan Ofn Himel, AKC/UKC CD, CGC, AAD

November 19, 1989 - September 15, 2003

OFA (Hips) SC-1846G24M-T, CERF (Eyes) SC-194/2000-122
DNA Profile # V58369


International Star Registry - star number Orion RA 5h 13m 25s - D14º 23' 0"
Inbreeding Coefficient = 21.29%  (full pedigree information was available for 8 full generations)

Geistvoll Magellan Ofn Himel was named after the Magellan spacecraft that went to Jupiter. His name translated means "Magellan in the open skys" or "Magellan in the open heavens". We affectionately called him Himmy Dimmers. He was our first show dog and did very well his first time in the show ring taking a 5 point major and a 4 point major back to back. This accomplishment is a rarity in the Standard Schnauzer world for a first time novice handler in the ring. He finished his AKC championship a couple days after his first birthday !
Himel held the American Kennel Club, Canadian Kennel Club and United Kennel Club (UKC) champion titles. He earned the titles of Canine Good Citizen, AKC Companion Dog, United Kennel Club Companion Dog, and American Agility Association Advanced Agility Dog. He was the proud daddy of Aaron.
He became the doctor around the house. While thinning trees in the back yard one day, Himel very astutely watched a 4 inch branch fall slowly to the ground. It made many of the creaking sounds that a broken tree limb would. Once the limb fell to the ground, he studied it, he sniffed very carefully, and then marked it. He knew, beyond a doubt, that when a tree falls in the forest, it does make a noise. Hence, his nick name of the Philosophical Himmy Dimmers or PhD, the doctor.
Himel took a page out of the "doing things" book that his older "sisters" wrote and went rafting. However, unlike his older sisters, he wrote a story about his rafting adventure . After retiring from the show ring, he hung around the backyard to chase the squirrels. While you are perusing, examine his pedigree .

The Himel Program  is a computer program that tracks the winning dogs in the working group from 1992 thru 1998.

Himel learning how to clean up when he gets to the show ring.

His first time in the ring and he does what he was taught to do - clean up!

Being Mr. Cool after doing what comes naturally, cleaning up.

We could not get this picture if we posed them in the summer of '95. Left to right: Weizer, Schniken, Himel.

Himel on his famous rafting trip that he wrote about.

stud dog

Posing for the camera at Dead Horse Point state park in Utah.

Not one of his toys, but this is as far as he got the pillow.

Himel's moment of glory when he was awarded a group 2 in Grand Junction in 1993.

Himel jumps on the fashion wagon and displays his bomber jacket.

Kathi and Himel, 12 years old here is still the big guy, but he is now a 'doctor'.

At age 2, words just cannot describe Himel, the big guy.

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