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Creekside Jet (2008 Tap x Chip)
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November 22: Creekside Reef, Jet and Cap have new photos!
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Fun at Creekside!
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A Creekside Family Reunion is planned for July 13-15, 2009. Enjoy sheep herding with Warren Mick (Altamont, NY) and Agility with Val Henry (Austin, TX) and a chance to meet your Creekside extended family! Registration form is available.
CREEKSIDE PUPPY / EXTENDED FAMILY OWNERS ONLY!
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ADCH, ATChC Blaze!
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January 2009: Yes, confusing!!! But this is when the NEW AAC rules take effect that will not require Blaze to finish his 3rd leg in Team Relay - and since he has already fulfilled all the new requirements - Blaze has technically earned his ATChC (actually earned in September 2007!)
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Creekside Tap x ##Mirk puppies!
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November 14: Creekside Tap delivers 6 healthy pups - 2 girls and 4 boys.
Sorry - all puppies from this litter are sold
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Creekside Just6 "Jus" (2004 Pat x Glen)
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October 29: Val Henry and Creekside Just6 "Jus" are competing at the 2008 Cynosport World Championships (aka USDAA Nationals) and in the first class of the competition, the European Standard, ran CLEAN and finished 17th out of 232 (yes, two hundred and thirty two) 22" dogs! They also ran clean in Team Jumpers and finish in the top 80%. Go Jus Go!!
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CBC Radio's Susan Campbell and Tim Belford, hosts of Quebec AM.
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October 23: We are interviewed on CBC Radio's Quebec AM! In English - Listen for the next 7 days by clicking HERE. It is a bit weirdly edited, but you'll get the idea... I guess I won't earn my keep as a public speaker...Could I say 'UM' a few more times?!
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Creekside's M.D. "Doc" (2006 Pat x Glen)
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October 23: Doc's page updated. Not only have they completed ALL the requirements for every title in the Starters class (USDAA Championship Program), we just learned that Jimmy and Doc won the 22" Steeplechase class at the All Dogs trial earlier this month!
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Creekside Fen (2008 Tap x Chip)
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October 21: New video on Fen's page. Please excuse my very beginner attempts at movie making - I'm just learning!
Also, we are pleased to announce that we are sure (99%) that Tap is in pup! She is at day 35 today and is already getting big. She is still enjoying all activites and has only slightly slowed down! Less than a month to go!
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Creekside Reef (2008 Tap x Chip)
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The Puppy Blog is back up and running to track the upcoming Tap x ##Mirk litter (due November 18th) - Sorry Puppies all spoken for!
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Imp. Pat
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Sept 28: Pat places 4th at the Fryeburg Fair Open Sheepdog Trial with a score of 90/100.
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Kevin Evans and ##Mirk
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Sept 16: Tap has been bred to the 2008 International Supreme Champion, Kevin Evans' Mirk ISDS 272009.
Sorry, puppies ALL spoken for (and then some!)
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Creekside Tap (2004 Pat x Glen)
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Sept 9: Tap earns a score of 85 at the St. Harmon Open trial in South Wales.
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Purchase a cool T-shirt for $12 (US or CDN) designed by Val Henry and her brother of Austin, TX. Thanks Val and Bro for this most generous donation!!!
SORRY ALL SOLD OUT!
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Fundraisers for our World Trial campaign!
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DOGSPORT Magazine: Purchase or renew your subscription through me and DOGSPORT will donate a portion of each to our World Trial campaign!
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Creekside Tap (2004 Pat x Glen)
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August 23-24: Tap WINS both the Quechee Scottish Festival Open Sheepdog Trials AND the Spring Valley Open Sheepdog Trial earning her the overall weekend champion. She also wins the Double Lift fun run on Sunday, running to near perfection all weekend!
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Puppy pages updated!
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Creekside Click (2006 Pat x Glen)
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August 16-17: Creekside Click earns his NAC at the NOMAD NADAC trial - I think he's got a bunch of other titles too, you never know with NADAC - as there are so many games and runs per day at a trial it is hard to keep track! Click also has a great video up of him working sheep at home.
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Blaze and Fen at Nationals
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August 8-10: Blaze travels to Sussex, New Brunswick to compete in the AAC National Championships where he finishes with 472.02 points for a respectful 22nd place overall out of 63 dogs in the 26" division - running with multiple contusions and cuts from sky diving off the cliffs of the Fundy Trail into the river the day before the competition started!!!! Silly accident prone dog...
He also made it to round 2 of the Steeplechase championships.
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Creekside's M.D. "Doc" (2006 Pat x Glen)
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August 2-3 (I think!): Doc earns his AD (USDAA Agility Dog Title) at the LEAP trial in MA.
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Imp. Pat
Photo by Grace Smith
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August 3: Pat places 10th at the Ewesful Acres Sheepdog Trial in Portland, ON with a score of 88. Creekside Tap just misses the money by placing 11th with a score of 87 including a perfect outwork score and only 3 points off up to the shed (which we didn't even get!). Someday (hopefully in Wales!) it will all come together in one run!
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Creekside Click (2006 Pat x Glen)
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July 26-27: Creekside Click earns 2 Novice Agility legs and 1 Novice JWW leg all with first place finishes and fastest times in each at his debut AKC agility trial in Burlington, VT.
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Creekside Tap (2004 Pat x Glen)
Photo by Grace Smith
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July 26-27: Creekside Tap places 8th on day 1 and 10th on day 2 at the difficult Sherbrooke International Sheepdog Trial (Formerly the Lennoxville Int'l SDT). Pat also worked very well but had 2 draws of sheep that were extremely difficult to manage!
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Imp. Chip
Photo by Katherine Mercier
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July 19-20: Lynn Deschambeault's Imp. Chip (sire of 2008 litter) WINS day 2 of the Mad River Open SDT with a score of 96! He also was Reserve Champion for the weekend! He also won the Ossipee Valley Fair Open Points Trial the previous day with two perfect scores - the only dog to earn them!
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Creekside Tap (2004 Pat x Glen)
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July 19-20: Creekside Tap and Pat compete at the Mad River Open SDT and get into the top 10 both days! Saturday: Tap - 10th (74); Pat - 8th (78); Sunday: Tap - 3rd (89) and Pat - 7th (83).
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Boomer 1993-2008
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July 12: It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to the one that started it all...
Rest well, my dear old friend.
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Creekside Tap (2004 Pat x Glen)
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July 12-13: Creekside Tap looses only 2 points up to the pen at the Merck Forest open SDT and earns a score of 78 with no pen or shed points (difficult sheep :)
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Creekside Tap (2004 Pat x Glen)
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July 5-6: Creekside Tap places 11th out of 74 dogs in the Open class on day 2 of the Fetch Gate Farm SDT in Cortland, NY with a score of 89.
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Blaze
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June 21-22: Blaze qualifies for the AAC Nationals at the 2008 AAC Quebec Regional Championships in Levis (Quebec City); placing 5th in Jumpers 1; 6th in Gamblers 1; 5th in Gamblers 2 and 9th overall (I think!). Thunderstorms throughout the weekend and his being sick on Doxy made me realize what a hero my dog is! You can see pics of him swimming in the St. Lawrence on his page in the Competitive Career (2008) section.
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Rescue Pick of the Month!
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June Rescue Pick: Cody is a purebred Border Collie from registered working lines. He shows some nice talent and potential to be a good novice herding dog or farm chore dog! Go to the Rescue Pages to learn more about Cody!
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Creekside Just6 and Creekside Fen
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Creekside's M.D "Doc"
(2006 Pat x Glen)
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June 6-8: Creekside's M.D. "Doc" and Jimmy Cody clean up in his division at the CATS/NOMAD trial, including a WIN in Performance Speed Jumping! Best of all was the joyous expression on Doc's face throughout the weekend - his confidence has increased exponentially! Jimmy was one proud papa!
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!!! ADCH Blaze !!!
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June 6-8: Blaze has a great weekend at the CATS/NOMAD USDAA trial. His DAM team "Chuck Norris" (Perk, Jus and Blaze) finish 5th overall - and qualify for the Nationals. Blaze also Q's and places 2nd in Steeplechase Round 1 and makes it to the finals, where he finishes 3rd (my bobbles!) - these 2 Q's are what we needed for our Tournament Master (TM) title. He also Q's and places in most every other class, but the BIGGEST Q is his 1st place and SuperQ in Snooker to finish his Snooker Master and his ADCH!!!
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Note: this is the March April edition...The May/June edition features a corgi on the front cover.
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May/June issue of DOGSPORT features an article about Tap, Pat and I and our World Trial adventure! See the article entitled: "Ringside with Fiona Robertson" by Penny Caster.
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Tap and Pat
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May 24-25: Imp. Pat and Creekside Tap compete in the Open class at the MA Sheep and Woolcraft Fair. The first day their handler was brain dead and made a lot of errors :) On Sunday we redeemed ourselves with 4th place (Tap) and 6th place (Pat) finishes. Both Grace and Tracy took some lovely photos, which have been added to their pages.
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Creekside Click
(2006 Pat x Glen)
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May 23-25: Grace and Creekside Click make their sheepdog trial debut at the MA Sheep and Woolcraft Fair in Cummington. They ran all 3 days in the Novice class and each day, Click become progressively better...He earned an 8th place on the first day and a 3rd place and the "Long Road Award" on Sunday! (The "Long Road Award" is given to the top scoring dog in each class who has been raised and trained by the handler since a pup.)
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2008 Creekside Tap x Imp. Chip
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May 22: All the Tap x Chip puppies have gone to their new homes via Delta from Logan airport - a very hard day for me, but all puppies are doing well and new families adore them! Follow their progress on the Tap x Chip puppy page.
The Puppy Blog is over for another 2 years...Thanks all for tuning in!
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Blaze
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May 18: Blaze wins the Masters Standard Class at a local AAC trial with the fastest time of all 22 and 26 inch dogs thanks to his new tight turns and running Aframe (although still a work in progress and we were called for as many as we weren't :)
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Bronwynn - Rescue Success!
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April 23: Kensa (2007 Warren Mick's Creekside Kess x Dale), Click (2006 Pat x Glen) and Rhyll (2004 Pat x Glen) all have new photos on their pages.
Rescue page updates - great new pics of last year's foster dog, Bronwynn!
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A 2007 photo - we are still up to our necks in snow!
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March 27: Creekside's first lambs arrive during the night with no help - yippee!
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Creekside Tap x Imp. Chip puppies!
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Creekside Cait x Imp. Marley Trim puppies!
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March 17: New Page created to honor our sponsors who are helping us get to the World Trial in September. Also info on upcoming fundraisers will be posted here, as well as on the World Trial Blog. Click HERE to go to the new page.
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Creekside Click (2006 Pat x Glen)
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March 16: Creekside Click's hip evaluation has come back OFA Excellent! Results just received!
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ADCH Creekside Just6 (2004 Pat x Glen)
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Feb. 23: Jus, Click, and Caper's pages have been updated. Jus is winning USDAA tournament classes consistently in TX !
Tap and Pat are BOTH going to represent Canada at the World Sheepdog Trial! Read all about the adventure on our Blog.
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Rose Redick's Kensa (2007 Kess x Dale)
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Feb 13: Happy Birthday Pat x Glen puppies (2006 litter) Fynn, Click, Rigg, OneX are 2 years old today!
Doc and Caper officially turn 2 on Valentine's Day (Born after midnight)
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Lynn Deschambeault's Imp. Chip
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January 24: Tap has been bred to Imp. Chip. Puppies (hopefully) at the end of March! Follow this litter's progress on the Creekside Puppy Blog.
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Imp. Trim
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January 16: David Argue's Creekside Cait has been bred to Imp. Trim (a son of Shirley Cropper's Beechwood Bob). Cait is a real deal working farm dog, with a wonderful temperament and work ethic. Trim is also a working dog. He was imported in his dam by Creekside Rigg's owner, Cat Laxton and has an outstanding working pedigree. Both dogs have their hips and eyes cleared and are DNA Normal for CEA/CH. More details on the puppy page!
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Grace Smith's Creekside Click (2006 Pat x Glen)
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January 10: Blog started for Creekside's World Trial adventure. OK, so not much exciting news yet, (except all the money spent to date), but here's where to go to check on us!
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January 4: Happy Birthday Pat x Glen puppies! (2004 litter) Max, Tap, Rhyll, Cait, Jus and Che are now 4 years old!
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Rescue
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January 2: A FABULOUS 11 month old agility/sport prospect is sitting in rescue in the Northeast! Please visit the RESCUE pages for more information!
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