Mr. Rogers used to sing, "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood" and he most certainly would have sung about the Tracking Day we had in Smithville today. A warm and sunny 70 degree blue sky day with a slight breeze coming across Smithville Lake which was lined with a few people fishing and several sailboats. Our Tracking Judges were Vince Ramirez, Jeanne Ramirez and Bob Brown. Two other judges, Carol Perry and Jon Bishop were at the Test for interviews with Diane Schltz, AKC Tracking Representative and it was nice to have AKC at the Test we all learned something, especially the Every Trail App for the IPhone, makes mapping really fun. Now for the really great news, there are two more German Shepherd Dogs with a Tracking Dog Title (TD), they are: Ajsa Bohemia Rom-Pan ZVV2, ZPS1 owned by Dave MacDougall and Ary's Vom Dem Spot Walfen HIC, TT, CDX, RE, BH, IOP2, CGC owned by Michael Cook Hopefully you will watch both of these dogs and their owners later this week in Topeka in the Opening Ceremony on Thursday and in Obedience and Rally during the week. Tracking is truly a walk in the woods with your dog, you should try it, your dog will love it. Lew ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================