Tango (Am Ch. Tollwest Dances With Waves CD, RNCL, AG.N, NJC, TG-N, TN-N, CGN, TT, 1/3 RACL, 1/3 TG-O, 1/3 NCC) is pick male from Splash's third litter. He's a big solid boy with a fantastic head and a confident, friendly and playful temperament. He is very enthusiastic and loves to work! I wish I could clone his temperament, he is that much of a joy to train! He has white feet, white chest, good-sized white tail tip, a tiny white star on his forehead and a small white snip on his nose.  He is 20 3/8" tall and 52 lbs.

He loves to work in obedience, and achieved his CD title in 2 weekends at 17 months old with minimal training and with very respectable scores of 186, 190, 190, and a bonus leg of 188.5. He is now training for Open (and Utility), and will be his debut in Open A trials in early April.  Tango and attended a CARO Rally Obedience trial in Sept, and with very little rally-specific training, he qualified in all 4 trials, earning his RNMCL (Rally Novice Magna Cum Laude) title with 1 first place win (score of 198) and 2 second place ribbons (scores of 191 & 186), and won High In Trial for Novice B. We moved up to Advanced level for the last trial, and he qualified there as well with a second place, earning him his first leg towards an RACL (Rally Advanced Cum Laude) title. In August/07, he entered his first CKC raly trial, where he earned a leg in Novice B with a score of 196/200. The same day he also passed a TT (Temperament Test).

Tango has done quite well in conformation so far, and he absolutely LOVES to show! He went to his first conformation sanction match at 5 months old, and came home with Winners Male/Best Opposite! He made his conformation show debut in June, winning Best Puppy In Breed all 3 days and bringing home a 2 point Best of Winners one day as well, at only 6.5 months old! In July he headed to the Canadian National, where he placed 2nd in a very strong class of 6 Junior Males. He was Best Puppy in Breed at the BC Toller Booster in Kamloops, the day he turned 9 months old, then 2 weeks later he picked up a 1 pt Winners Male followed the next day by a 2 pt Best of Winners. Despite going through a "gangly teenager" stage, he picked up a 2 pt Best of Breed at 17 months old (the day after finishing his CD).

In August/04 he took a trip to Minneapolis, MN to spend a few months at Broadway Kennels and start his AKC show career. I am quite pleased to say that Tango finished his Am Championship in only 8 shows, with 3 Best of Breed wins and Winners Dog at the 2004 US National Specialty! Thanks Cathy & RaeAnn DeBruyne for handling Tango to his American wins! He returned to Calgary at the beginning of February/05 and on his first day back in the ring this side of the border, he got that last point needed for his Canadian Championship. He then took a hiatus from showing while he was maturing, and just recently this July/06 made his first appearance as a special, making the cut of 3 males at the 2006 BC Toller Specialty!

Tango has had a good start on his agility training. His favorite obstacle is the teeter-totter, he thinks it is great fun! He has performed in 3 public agility demonstrations and did a great job. Tango loves to entertain the crowds :) He entered his first NADAC trial in July/05 and had several "almost Q's", which I was thrilled with since he hadn't been trained in agility for over a year! The next trial in Aug/05 brought him his first 3 Q's (and he was only entered in 4 runs!), he now has 1 Q in Novice Tunnelers, 1 Q in Novice Jumpers and 1 Q in Novice Touch N Go. He made his CKC Agility debut in Sept/05 and picked up his first AG.N leg along with a 1st place! He headed back into the NADAC ring in Nov/05, earning 5 Q's in 8 runs, finishing his TG-N  (Novice Touch N Go) & TN-N (Novice Tunnelers) titles, as well as picking up his first Open Touch N Go leg! He ran again in the CKC & NADAC rings in August, finishing his CKC Agility Novice title, and in NADAC finishing his Novice Jumpers and earning his first leg in Novice Chances.

Tango is water crazy and loves to swim just for the pure joy of swimming. Of course if there is something to retrieve, that is a definite bonus! We hope to get more seriously involved in field work down the road with goals of a WC & JH. I've also done a bit of training with him in tracking, so far he thinks that glove is pretty special. Maybe one day we'll go for a TD too?

A couple years ago he discovered a new sport - lure coursing...this is the sport that sighthounds like Whippets & Greyhounds do, chasing a plastic bag "bunny" on a pulley system, pulled all over a field. Tango watched one dog do it and then immediately started screaming for his turn! And WOW, did he ever run after that thing! He's a true natural at the sport and wanted to go again and again and again. We are also thinking of trying out carting, I think it is another sport we would both enjoy! Maybe he will become the first Toller to get a Draft Dog title?

Tango was born and raised on raw food and no vaccines! He is both Optigen PRA & CEA pattern A (Normal) by parentage, eyes have a current (Sept/06) CERF exam, hips OFA Good & OVC Normal, elbows OFA Normal, Heart OFA Normal, thyroid normal, brucellosis normal, AKC DNA profiled. His OFA Thyroid will be updated this summer.

Tango is a proven stud (13 litters on the ground so far) and is available at stud to approved bitches only. Shipped semen (chilled or frozen) is available by advance arrangement. He has 6 finished champion (4 CKC, 2 AKC) kids so far (1 with a Group 1st win, and 2 of the 5 finished with BOB wins over specials!), with 6 others Ch-pointed at last count! So far 2 of his offspring have passed a WC test, and 1 has a Junior Hunter title.