Soda (Ch. Tollwest Soda Quacker CD AG.I ADC NAC
NCC NJC TG-N
TN-N CGC) is my pick puppy from Splash's second litter and is my first Toller with black pigment.
As a wee pup, she may have looked sweet & innocent but she was
really a little brat, she was always the "bad" puppy in the litter.
Always escaping the whelping box and puppy pen, when she was not
climbing over the top she was simply just removing the bars from the
pen! Another favorite activity was attacking pant legs, slippers, shoes,
and people's ears and noses! On Christmas Day 2001 (at 7 weeks) she
earned the nicknames "Bin Laden" and "Evil" after terrorizing everybody
at my mom's house, then finishing off by attaching herself to my mom's
ear :)
Thankfully, she has grown out of the worst of
her "evil" behaviors. As an adult, she is a lot easier to live with,
although still a little brat sometimes! She is very social and outgoing,
she is not the least bit shy and loves everybody! She loves to be held
and cuddled, and she will sit on your lap for hours if you let her - she
really thinks she is a little princess, and the whole world exists to
adore her and shower her with attention!
in competition
Soda has worked mainly on her agility skills, where right from the start
she had shown outstanding
potential.
She has tons of enthusiasm and believes that the faster you go, the
better, so I really get a good workout when I run her! Her agility
trial debut was in July/03, and she finished her AG.N (Agility Novice) title easily,
qualifying on each of the 4 Novice courses she ran. In Sept/03, she
competed in her first AAC agility trial, and picked up a Q & first place
in Starters Standard, Starters Gamblers & Starters Snooker. In
October/03 she attended her second AAC trial and qualified in 5 out of 7
runs! She had 1st place in 6 out of 7, with the other being a close 2nd
place. That weekend she picked up Q's in Starters Jumpers, Starters
Gamblers, Starters Standard, where she got 2 Q's which finished her ADC
(Agility Dog of Canada) title, and got
to move up to Advanced for her final run of the weekend, which was
Advanced Snooker. She had a beautiful smooth clean run, making it all
the way through the closing with time to spare. In May/04, she picked up
2 legs towards her Agility Intermediate title. She then took a year and
a half off from trialing to raise some babies. She came back to the
agility scene in Nov/05, and finished her AG.I (Agility Intermediate) title
with flying colors! She made her NADAC debut in November, and Q'd in
7 out of 8 runs she was entered in, earning her TG-N (Novice Touch N Go) &
TN-N (Novice Tunnelers)
titles. She has since also finished her NAC (Novice Agility Certificate),
NCC (Novice Chances Certificate) & NJC (Novice Jumpers Certificate)
titles, with 2 legs towards her TG-O (Open Touch n Go).
Soda made her obedience debut in May 2003 and
did extremely well, picking up a CGC plus two CD legs, all in one day! 2
months later she made another trip into the ring and brought home her
final CD leg, along with a 4th in class! We did a bit of training
towards her CDX but Soda told me she would rather do agility!
We've also done some field training. She is very
birdy (loves her pigeons & pheasant or grouse wings!) and has tremendous water courage and
drive...at only her second-ever trip to the lake (at 7 months old) she
was out-swimming Cayenne to the bumper almost every time!
Soda is 17.75" tall and 33 lbs. She has black
pigment, dark brown eyes, white feet, white chest, a tiny white tail tip
and a few white hairs on her chin, and an easy-care shorter length coat
with moderate feathering.
Her conformation
debut was in May 2002, where she took Best of Breed and Group 3rd at her
first sanction match, and a week later took Best Puppy In Breed at her
first official show. She took another Best Puppy in Breed and 2 Reserve
Winners in September/02. Despite the ganglies, she picked up her first
Championship point on May 19 2003, followed by a winning streak in June
of Best of Breed the first day, Winners Bitch the second day, and Best
of Winners the third day! In July she went to the National Specialty and
took home 1st place in Canadian Bred, then a few weeks later made
another trip into the show ring and won a 2 pt Winners Bitch the first
day, and a 3 pt Best of Breed the next to finish her Ch at just under 20
months old!
Soda was born and raised on BARF, with both her
parents also being BARF fed! Soda is Optigen PRA pattern B by birth (A-C
parents). She has been CERF examined, and we will be updating her exam
this fall. Her hips are OVC certified. An OFA Thyroid panel is planned
for this fall.
Her first litter was born in December 2003, bred to Multi Ch Beinnbhreagh's Great Pleasure, the girl from that "Pepsi" finished her
Cdn Championship by 1.5 years old. Soda's second litter was born Jan 2005,
sired by Ch Pikkinokka's Ragin' Cajun, 2 puppies from that litter are in
show homes, one of which already has 2 points towards his Ch. A repeat
breeding to Cajun was born August 2005, and we have 3 pups from that
litter in show homes, so far 1 girl Savannah (Tollwest's Summer Magic)
has her 1st 3 point major in the US, and 1 boy Avro (Tollwest's Magic
Arrow) has a 2 pt Winners Dog/Best Puppy in breed in his first day of
showing here in Canada .
Soda was bred this summer to our handsome young
man Tollwest's Causing Kaos, the litter was born July 28/06. This was
Soda's last litter.
As of late Oct, Soda has officially retired and
has gone to a new home in Red Deer where she is the only dog - she loves
the idea of getting ALL the attention! :) Her new owner looks forward to
starting agility...I am sure Soda can't wait to teach him how to play!
