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Echo Ridge Tucker
4/1/2010
2 Blue Merle Males - Tony & Cole
2 Blue Merle Females - Zoey & Luna
1 Black Tri Male - Flip
1 Black Tri Female - Ziva
All puppy photos courtesy of Jane Palmer
Faith aka Ziva and Apollo aka Tony, left and right above, will live with Charlene and David Stocker in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Stockers have high hopes of having some herding titles on these two wonderful puppies.
Denim aka Zoey has become a part of Jane and Tim Palmer's family of Ballwin, MO, and will be competing in agility and obedience in the future.
Dreamer will be co-owned with Greg Grawe of Quincy, IL
Flip will become Raymond Florman's new best friend. He will live in Kirkwood, MO
To our delight, lovely Luna will stay here at Wildhorse to be spoiled and cherished just as her momma is!
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Now five months old, Luna, above, and Flip, right, just got back from the August ASCA show in St. Louis where Luna was Best Opposite Sex puppy, and Flip won his group. Way to go, pups!
As the puppies progress
Ziva and Tony, formerly Faith and Apollo, are not yet three months old, but they are already starting their herding training under the direction of "Dad" David Stocker.
Note: Herding commands are given verbally or in the form of whistles. Each series of short and long "tweets" gives a specific instruction to the dog.
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"Walk up" is one of a herding dog's first commands. It means move straight forward toward the sheep.
The "come by" command moves the dog clockwise around the sheep.
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Tony gets some encouragement from David to "walk up."
Ziva, who used to be Faith, left, and Tony, who used to be Apollo, right, take their first run through an agility tunnel.
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Ziva takes the tunnel by herself -- with caution.
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Whew! That was hard work -- but fun. Tony and Ziva find a shady spot to take a breather.
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One short year later.....
Flip
Ziva
Zoey
Cole
Beautiful, proud new Momma
Luna
Finishes her Rally Novice Title January 2012 with 3 very high scores - Luna is showing her intelligence and obedience talent with flying colors.
Tony
February 2012 - Flip earns his first & second Rally Novice legs with 1st & 2nd places and great scores of 99 & 98!
