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Working Dogs in the Show Ring
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Ch Copper Canyon Caligari with Erin George |
Windsong Raisin Cain ATDscd with Linda King |
Windsong Silver Anniversary with Lois George |
Buster Brown Shoe puppy with Terry Martin |
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CASA Memorial Day
Specialty 1978
Winner of Stud Dog Class
CH Jones' Reddy Teddy CDX OTD
Ruff N Reddy Tinker Toy
with Barb Nielsen, Ted with Cathy, CH Ruff N Reddy Mity Mohammad with Pattie
Ennen, Slash V Semi Sweet OTDcd STDs with Terry Martin
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CASA Memorial Day
Specialty 1976
Jones' Reddy Teddy with
Cathy Jones (from open red), Slash
V Buckeye Bobby with Terry Martin (from open red merle, RWD)
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CH Colorado Clay and sire CH
Slash V Buckeye Bobby with Clay's owners Joe (ASCA Stock Dog Judge) and
Jonna Cole of Talkook Kennels. Photo taken in the seventies |
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CASA Specialty Show in early
seventies. Leslie Sorensen (Colorado Kennels) with Sorensen's
Gunsmoke and Ernie Hartnagle (Las Rocosa) with Hartnagle's Hud. |
WTCH CH Windsong's Raisin Cain
CD whelped 1976
CH Copper Canyon's Caligari CD x
WTCH Twin Oaks Windsong,
Owned by Rick Dill, Texas
We did all show dogs back in
those days! And yes, that is Kathy Warren showing a dog she bred and
trained who was later sold to and finished by Rick Dill. And how about
the show photo below of Rick and Cain in the breed ring with Linda Wilson
and Bonzo (Fieldmaster's Three Ring Circus)?
Working dogs with CH's
did compete against "famous" show dogs! Have you noticed all the CH's on these working dogs and their
parents? They weren't just winning against each other either.
Those days had serious show kennels too including the likes of Fieldmaster,
Tri-Ivory, Coppertone, and Sand Canyon.
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WTCH Windsong's Hurrah Cain
owned and shown by Chris Timmons - he went Winners Dog that day in Beaumont,
TX. back in the early 80's. |
Slash V Steel Curtain
STDcs with Chris Timmons at Brownfield, TX show
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So what is ASCA Stock Dog
Judge, Chris Timmons, doing showing a dog in conformation? We all
used to do this! Some of these guys were even pretty good at it.
Chris's traveling buddy, Rick Dill, showed his WTCH CH Windsong's Raisin
Cain CD to both his WTCH and his CH and were showing the same time as I
showed Steeler. This was in the early eighties. Steve was
showing and trialing his CH Brushwood Buckeye Charm CD ATDsd OTDc STDh
in the same era. That was the time when we "did it all with
the same dogs"- before progress I suppose you could say. I
didn't go to Brownfield but sent Steeler with my friend Joyce Reaves who
conned Chris into this event, not telling him Steeler was terrified of
thunder - which was going on at the time! But it wasn't the first
or only time Chris did this. He put some conformation points on
his own WTCH Windsong's Hurrah Cain CD too! |
CH Copper Canyon's Caligari CD
"Jimmie" whelped 1973
George's Red Rustler x
Quaglino's Miss Pooh
Owned by Lois George, San Luis
Obispo, CA
This photo is Jimmie as most people saw him -
winning in the breed ring. I remember watching him go Winners Dog at
the Nationals in Kansas City and just being amazed at the effortless way he
covered ground. Lois leased Miss Pooh for several litters until one time
when she called her owner, Jimmie Caligari, and was told that he
couldn't spare her from the ranch any more so he had her spayed!
Jimmie's littermate sister, CH Hoyt's Wildwood Flower, produced several really
nice litters for me bred to Tim Tim - including CH Slash V Wild Timber.
Jimmie is also the sire of WTCH CH Windsong's Raisin Cain CD from a mating to
WTCH Twin Oaks Windsong.
CH Copper Canyon's Caligari CD
"Jimmie" doing a job not many people saw him do. Jimmie
was a rough heeler and a tough cattle dog and those who saw him work
realized the contribution he would make to working bloodlines. Rough
as he could be on cattle, my son Scott worked him in a rainstorm in Kansas
City when Lois's daughter, Erin, backed out of the duck trial. Scott
was about ten or twelve and had no problem controlling this easy going
dog.
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