Swimming, August 2004
Ashi tracking, one of her favorite things in life. She has her Tracking Dog title. She was ready to try for her TDX when she got injured.
In January 2004 with her latest favorite toy, a tire. It's big and heavy enough that I can barely throw it, but that doesn't stop her retrieving it.
ASHI (DOB:6/13/97): Ashi is Glory's daughter from a young dog of working lines who has his SchH I. That litter was full of quality. All trained extremely well, are very outgoing, confident and athletic dogs with a real joy of life. They are very stable pups, learning exercises at the first exposure and remembering them with an "oh, sure, I can do that" attitude, and all were the stars of their various puppy classes. Ashi taught herself the stays, doing them at a very young age, and the other puppy's owners have all commented on the same thing. These pups were begging to work.
Ashi has excellent drives, could have done Schutzhund, loves obedience and tracking. She has her mother's intelligence without the devious teasing mind, and begs to work. Ashi is a dark red sable. Unfortunately, Ashi injured a muscle in her hind leg and surgery to correct it only made it worse and left her permanently lame, forcing her retirement in 2003. At the time of her injury, she was nearly ready to try for her TDX (Tracking Dog Excellent), only needed a little polishing for her CD (Companion Dog), and was ready to trial in agility.
Ashi's sire is Chilocs Homeboy vom Illertal BH SchH1 ("Levi"), an extremely promising young dog with absolutely perfect working drives and lots of competition potential. This was Levi's only litter. We mostly got Glory's classic looks with Levi's great working drives, plus the joy of life and outgoing personalities of both--exactly what I had hoped for! Levi is OFA hips (good), elbows, heart & thyroid, CERF, Von Willebrand's Disease free and hemophilia free. Levi's sire is G-Cliff vd Dauda Farm SchH3, FH, AD, TD. Cliff is OFA hips (good), elbows, heart & thyroid, Von Willebrand's Disease free and hemophilia free. Cliff is an V-Alf v Pfaenderruecken SchH3 son out of a daughter of V-Argus v Papageinhaus SchH3 daughter. His dam, G-Otti vd Bildsaeule SchH 1 "a", is an V-Alf v Pfaenderruecken SchH3 daughter out of a Czech bitch.
Ashi:
OFA Hips -- Good -- GS-56039G24F-T
OFA Elbows GS-EL9972-T
OFA Thyroid GS-TH50/95F-PI
OFA Cardiac GS-CA57/24F/P-T
CERF GS-695/2002-61
Von Willebrand's and hemophilia free
Therapy Dog (Therapy Dogs Incorporated)
Tracking Dog (received AKC title 9/24/2000)
Ashi in the official photographs when I'm named Community Person of the Week
See photos of Ashi's littermates
Ashi's sire, Levi
