FIND IT!!!!!
by TRACKING
FIND IT!!!!!
by TRACKING
"FERGIE"
U-CD, Illusion's Sarah Ferguson, TDX, (Tracking Dog Excellent), CD
(owned and handled by Arlene King)
Tracks like the "big" dogs!!!!
There are currently only EIGHT living yorkies with TRACKING DOG TITLES and ONE is the first yorkie in the history of the breed to earn a TRACKING DOG EXCELLENT TITLE.
Joyce Anderson started tracking her "FERGIE", CH Caraleigh's Fair Warning, VCD2, when she was six months of age in 1993, but due to other training, a short Florida tracking season and other commitments, "Fergie" piled up an impressive number of titles but was never able to earn that elusive TD (TRACKING DOG).
U-CD, Illusion's Sarah Ferguson TDX, CD, CGC, also known as "FERGIE", started tracking with her owner, Arlene King, in the prairies of Illinois in 1997 when she was just under four months old and weighed only 2 pounds. She was so small that the only harness that would fit her was a hot pink, figure-8 cat harness!!! From the get-go she was a natural!! At under two years of age, on October 18, 1998, she PASSED at her first TRACKING DOG test and earned her TD title.
Through the internet, partly because they both owned yorkies that tracked named "Fergie", Joyce and Arlene became friends and were there on the computer to support each other and their "Fergies" with their tracking training. In June of 1999 Joyce, in desperation, sent her "Fergie" up to Arlene in Illinois for some intense training and polishing at Arlenes VERY exclusive summer camp (only for yorkies that track named Fergie!!!). To make a long story shorter, after only a month in Illinois "Fergie" was certified and on October 3, 1999, at the Northwest Obedience Clubs TD test, in the pouring rain, she became (according to our records) the FIRST yorkie Champion of Record to earn a Tracking Title.
The Two Fergies are two of only six living yorkies with Tracking Titles making Arlene the only person to ever handle more than one yorkie (as well as more than one "FERGIE") to a tracking title.
Tracking pictures are notoriously bad but we couldn't miss the opportunity show everyone our Two Tracking Fergies earning their TRACKING DOG Titles
"FERGIE" |
"FERGIE" |
Kisho's Tinker of Napa Valle', TDX
"TINKER" owned, trained and handled to his TD title by owner Lupe Burquez (deceased) is shown with the glove he found on March 1, 1998 to earn his Tracking Dog Title. "TINKER" is one of only seven living yorkshire terriers to have earned a Ttacking title. He passed his TDX at the Sacremento Training Clubs Test in March of 2004 handled by his new owner, Debbie Craine.
Pictured left is U-CDX, U-AG1 ILLUSION'S JAWS WITH PAWS, VCD2 (CDX, TD, OA, OAJ), RE, NAP, NJP, "JP", is owned by Arlene King. "JP" is shown at the Moraine Tracking Club's TD Test on June 3, 2001 where he passed his test at one year and 4 days old to earn his TRACKING DOG Title. "JP" passed under judges Terri Everwine and Beth Walker.
Above is Mary Doyle and "BRENDAN", pictured at the Pecatonica Tracking Club TD test where they passed with flying colors to become the seventh living yorkie with a Tracking Title and the 4th yorkie with a Versatile Companion Dog Title. Pictured with Mary and Brendan is (far left) tracklayer Pam German, who is also the judge that certified "BRENDAN", and judges (right) Mary Mazerella and Darlene Chirolas. MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO MARY AND "BRENDAN".
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