Tracking the Tracking Shelties

 


Mistakes

In the earlier days of the AKC awards publication, obedience and tracking titles were not always published.  Then, as now, mistakes tend to perpetuate themselves, and mistakes still happen.  When my Sagebrush Little Britches, UD TDX passed her TD test in 1995, all the dogs who passed at that test received TDX certificates and were published as having earned TDXs.  If a correction is not published or if no one catches the correction, the errer will be passed on.

The dogs listed below have been included in some TD/TDX lists and not in others.  The reasons they are or are not included in my lists are listed below.  Any corrections would be appreciated.

Shelties Who Don't Have A TD Owner TD date Comment
Ch. Millbrook Macalester Lad, UD Barbara D. Olson & Lowell E. Olson   Listed as having a TD when his CH was published 10-1983,
and listed as having a TD in his ASSA Handbook pedigree section the same year.
No TD was ever published by AKC
No TD per correspondence with owner
September's Little Sugar Plum UD Pam Strametz   Included on several TD lists, but not on AKC website
No TD per correspondence with owner
 
Shelties Who May Have A TD Owner TD date Comment
Shelturn Dancing In The Dark CDX TD Wanda K. Jesonis 1987-1989 No TD listed on the AKC awards record
I lost this page and had to reconstruct it from my records, and at this point I have no idea why I decided that she really had a TD
 
Shelties Who Do Have A TD Owner TD date Comment
Braemoor Lass O' Heatherledge UDT Rebecca Parsons Oct 24, 1992 TD included on AKC website listing of dog,
but not on any lists available to me.
TD confirmed by correspondence with owner
 
Probably Don't Have A TDX Owner TD date Comment
Ch. Classic's Practikly Perfect, UDT Alane Gomez 11-3-85 Listed as having a TDX in Hochstetter, but no other place
Correspondence with Alane Gomez refers to her as having a TD
Megan'O Technique CDX TD Susan A Meier 5-12-85   TDX listed in Carriera
Listed in ASSA Handbook as earning TD on 5-12-85,
Miller reports TDX in 10-85 AKC Gazette,
apparently this was when she earned her CDX
No TDX listed on her AKC Awards record
Raisin the Cisco Kid, TD Andrea & Daryl Boyle 3-11-84 TDX listed in Carriera
Listed in ASSA Handbook as earning TD on 3-11-84,
AKC published TDX only,
No TD published per Bob Miller,
Not listed in Sandy’Ganz’s 1990 article
OTChWindshadow’s Master Yoda, TD Marsha Mestas OTCH 9-88,
TD (9-89)		 AKC awards record shows TD only
Listed only in Carriera, and in no other place.
Miller's records show a CDX 1-85
Not listed in Sandy’Ganz’s 1990 article
 
Shelties Who Do Have A TDX Owner TD/TDX date Comment
Sagebrush Little Britches, UD TDX Alicia Keegan & Barry Siler TD 1995, TDX 1996 Incorrectly listed in AKC awards as earning TDX in 1995, then listed TDX (correctly) again in 1996
Am Can OTCh Deacon of Pepperwood, Am Can TDX Richard Ashby TD 1982
TDX 1983		 TD never published, listed as ‘83 TDX in Handbook,
photo labeled as day of ‘82 TD in Sandy’s ‘90 article, which describes him as having a TDX