On Sunday,
January 16, 2005, Peninsula
Australian Shepherd Association (PASA) put on its’
first annual Tracking Dog (TD) Test at Arastradero
Nature Preserve, Palo Alto, CA. The
judges were Barbara Adcock and Dr.
William T. Beauchamp. Test
Secretary was Anne Hershey, Chief Tracklayer was Sue Rush.
Six TD
tracks were offered, and all six
entered dogs passed the test! What
a wonderful day for all of us, and a
wonderful beginning for PASA’s tracking
test. program! A great
big Thank You to the handlers who entered these well-trained dogs, and
to the
workers who gave their all to make this a successful test.
Passing dogs
were:
Track #1: Donna
Highstreet’s “Star,” the
only ASCA
registered Aussie entered in this test, a bitch who
is
expecting a litter of puppies and is only two weeks away from her
whelping date!
Track #2: Rita
Crawford’s
OTCH Sheltie dog, “Cody,” who passed his AKC TD in the spring of
2004.
Track #3: Suzanne Bria’s
Golden
Retriever dog, “Finnegan,” who passed his AKC TD in the spring of
2004.
Track
#4: Margaret Reed’s Belgian mixed breed dog.
Track
#5: Deborah Best’s Golden Retriever bitch, “Merry.”
Track
#6: Judy Butler’s
Beauceron dog,
“Phantom,” who passed his
AKC TD in the winter of 2004.
Tracklayers
were PASA members Lois
Allen-Byrd, Marcia Hodes, and Sue Rush, and PAFTA members Ziv Gigus and
Denise
Gilbert. Drivers
were PASA members
Virginia Lewis and Glen and Blanche Stimpson. Warene
Waters
made the beautiful paw print stepping stone trophies; Marcia Hodes
selected and
ordered the tracking ribbons; Donna Highstreet did double duty by
making
delicious soups for Sunday lunch and bringing her motor home for
hospitality
shelter.
It was a
beautiful
weekend, after weeks of
continuous rain, beautiful cover and conditions, and a beautiful test.
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