The joint Inland Empire Collie Club/Spokane Dog Training Club pair of AKC tracking tests is now in the books. The first weekend, sponsored by IECC, rewarded our efforts with three new TD passes. Sadly, there were no TDX passes out of four attempts for the first weekend, but the following (SDTC) weekend we had a German Pinscher become the third of his breed to earn a TD, and two successes out of 5 TDX attempts. As always there are many many people to thank for volunteering their time to make these events possible.  As is typical, more people help to put on these events than are able to actually enter, and all those workers don't get to enter the event.

 

From November through mid April, Suzanne Schwab and Sherry McCauley were on hand nearly every weekend to guide trackers through laying and running practice tracks, and Suzanne laid over a dozen certification tracks for teams hoping to enter the spring tests.  For the IECC test held April 25-26, Linda Ward hired judges and arranged lodging, coordinated with BLM to use land for the tests, served as secretary, and was on hand all day for both days to make sure there were drivers getting judges and tracklayers and exhibitors to their tracks on time and being picked up at the end of tracks. Sherry recruited and organized workers, helped with driving, designed and assembled awards, and was the primary cross tracker for all four TDX’s.  Suzanne met with judges on Friday afternoon and gave them the grand tour of our site, and was a driver and TDX tracklayer Saturday and Sunday. Teri Liechty was a TD tracklayer, and Ric White, Suzi Czarnek, Sharen Hunley, and Rain McCauley drove judges and tracklayers wherever they needed to be and made sure they made it back to tracking central.  Spokane Dog Training Club members who also worked at the test included  were Bill Manion,  Venita Aldrich, and Tannis Witherspoon, Frank Sommer, Janet Hamilton, and Tanja Klaage as tracklayers, Catherine Ferguson as driver, Mike and Janet Hamilton who picked up and returned supplies from Spokane Dog Training Club, and Jenny Sontag who organized a spectacular pot luck lunch for our test and for the SDTC test the following weekend.   

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Take a look at some of our Tracking Collies past and present here.