As always, many thank you’s are in order to the small army of dedicated trackers for putting on our annual spring tracking test. For those of you not involved in tracking please appreciate that every person who works at a tracking test is not allowed to enter that event, so all their time is in service of their friends in the tracking community.  Our judges for the two weekends were Roy Fair and Suzanne Schwab. Linda Ward hired judges, managed all the AKC paperwork, coordinated with the BLM for our use of the test site, helped drive tracklayers on plotting day, and coordinated getting all the tracklayers where they needed to be when they needed to be there on test day. Our tracklayers were Janet Hamilton, Mike Hamilton, Tanja Klagge, Teri Liechty, Sherry McCauley, Lorrie Crumpler and Karin Wagemann.  Ric White drove judges both Saturday and Sunday, and Ali Seeber, Gene Daspit, and Sharen Hunley provided rides for tracklayers. Sharen’s granddaughter Cora was our flag carrier and tracklayer apprentice on Saturday.  Suzanne and Janet and Mike shuttled Roy from the airport to the tracking site and motel, and Sherry designed and provided our certificate holders for the successful tracking teams.

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We were rewarded for our efforts with the great fun of watching two of our five TD teams successfully complete quarter mile long tracks to earn their Tracking Dog title, and one of our two TDX teams complete  a half mile long, 3 1/2 hr old track over rock outcrops, through brush, and through multiple vegetation changes to earn their Tracking Dog Excellent title. 

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Enjoy a few photos from our tracking test here

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