Carol,
I thought you'd enjoy this picture of Moxie at work. She's doing great at SAR. I've also just started her in Agility training too!
Foxy X Trooper
"Moxie"
DOB: 11/23/07
Carol,
Over the last 18 months Twist has made very nice progress. She is very smart and very perceptive. On Saturday, January 12, 2008 Twist became operational with my Team (Chesapeake Search Dogs WWW.Chesarda.org ) as an Air Scent Search Dog. The testing process on our team progresses in stages as the dog grows. Our dogs must complete a basic obedience test as well as be A.K.C. Good Citizens.
All of the following Eval(uations) have different time requirements and are conducted in areas unfamiliar to us.
9-25-2006 Puppy Eval (no age requirement)...Twist must find a person in an area 100yds x 100 yds no indication is required but at the end of the Eval the dog must be able to demonstrate an indication on command. (I chose a recall-refind similar to Kode)
2-10-2007 25 acre Eval....Twist and Handler (me) must search a 25 acre area in daylight and locate 1 lost subject, indicate the find to the handler and take handler in to subject. Subject located in 23 minutes.
4-12-07 40 acre Eval....Twist and Handler must search 40 acres at night and again locate 1 lost subject, indicate the find and take handler in to subject. Subject located in 1hr. 45 min.
6-24-07 NASAR Canine III Eval.....Twist must search a 60 acre area and locate 1 subject, indicate the find and take the handler in to the subject. Subject locate in approx. 45 min. (don't have the records at home)
1-12-2008 80 acre Eval (3rd attempt)...Twist must locate 2 lost subjects, indicate the find and take the handler in to the subject. Both subjects located in 52 minutes.
I hope you are proud of all your kids 'cause I know we are! I'll be sending a couple photos along when I get some good ones.
Thanks!
Ed & Twist
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Gypsy X Push
"Twist"
DOB: 3/13/06
Carol,
Here we are on Jan. 12,2007 when we passed out 80 acre evaluation. Twist had 2 subjects to find in 80 acres, we did it in about record time of under 1 hour with a 3 1/2 hour time limit.
Ed
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Carol,
As usual a quick note on our girl. Twist is doing well and has passed her Wilderness Cadaver test with our team. She is now qualified to be fielded on possible deceased subjects. She continues to run a mile each day she isn't scheduled for a training. She loves to pace me on the 4 wheeler (and you were thinking I ran with her) and keeps up a steady 25 mph. She continues to be an outstanding dog and as she gets older I know she will continue to mature and do wonderful work.
I can't help but remember Katharine saying that you can't make a tug dog out of one of these dogs. Well, Twists live find reward is tug with a large kong on a rope, she can out tug a couple of German Sheppard's on the team and wears her subjects down. Her cadaver reward is a tennis ball and she absolutely loves it. Nothing like a multi purpose dog.
We were on a search along the Baltimore Harbor this summer for a missing gentleman. As we came to the end of our area we were near the shoreline and an old pier, Twist showed allot of interest out in the water in the vicinity of the pier. I reported this to the State Police who were running the search, several weeks later our Director of Operations had spoken to the Officer in charge. He reported that the gentleman had finally been located, near a drainpipe, in the water and think that Twist may have picked up his scent that evening. The area where we had the interest was near his abandoned car. They speculate he took an overdose of meds and swam out into the bay to spare his family his beginning decline into Alzheimer's.
I hope you are healthy and your dogs are progressing well. From the sounds of the weather, winter has arrived for you all.
Ed :<{
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