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Apple Acres Sagebrush Raven, TDX PT OA NAJ
STDs
HTD-Is HRD-IIs
(Raven)
April 21, 1994-August
31, 2007
by
Ch Apple Acres Matador
ex
Apple Acres Almost Twilight
- 15 5/8 inches
- Bi-factored Tricolor
- Eyes CERF clear
- OFA Excellent
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Raven had several Reserves to her
credit, including a major reserve. Unfortunately, she never
produced any puppies. An
independent dog whose agenda did not always correspond with mine,
she taught me more about dog training than all my other dogs
combined.
Raven was a smart dog. In
tracking, I taught her to sit when she found an article dropped by
the tracklayer. She figured out on her own that a sit usually
meant that we were finished for the day, and she began to give me a
sit when she didn't want to track. It was great communication
on her part even if it wasn't exactly what I had in mind. |
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Raven ventured into the world
of agility with me, but it was clearly not her favorite
activity. She earned her OA and NAJ before I retired her. |
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Raven was a great
tracking dog. If truth be known, she had a better
nose than Molly. She is the only one of my dogs
who not only was certified on her first try, but passed
both her first TD test and her first TDX test.
Here she searches for the scent at a corner, where the
tracklayer made a turn. |
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Raven was always an on-again-off-again
girl with sheep. When she wanted to work them, she did
a very good job. When she didn't, an onlooker would
swear that she had no herding instinct.
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 Raven
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Read more about Raven:
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Sheltie International, April-May
2000 in article by Terrie Van Alen
(NorCal Shetland Sheepdog Herding Club Reserve Combined
Working Dog)
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Sheltie Pacesetter,
September-October 2000, in The Sheltie At Work
(article about her TDX track)
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ASSA Handbook,
2001, Alicia Keegan's article, Tracking The
Tracking Shelties
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