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I have been involved in the sport of dogs since the age of 12, when I owned an unregistered poodle I wanted to train and show. A friend and I satisfied our desire to show dogs by organizing and running a children’s charity dog show for 7 years before acquiring registered dogs we could show at AKC events. My interest in dog sports grew from obedience and breed competition to field trials and tracking.

I began tracking in 1979 with a German shorthaired pointer, just before the TDX title was born. After earning the TD title, I then pursued obedience and field trials and later hunt test titles and began judging pointing breed hunting tests. After attaining Senior and Master Hunter titles on my shorthairs, I returned to tracking and earned the TDX title with my original dog, and TD and TDX titles on other shorthairs and poodles I owned and co-owned. I teach tracking classes for both Rand Park DTC and Moraine Tracking Club, and have helped many others earn tracking titles over the years. I began judging tracking tests in 1991.

A dog groomer by profession, I have also successfully shown my miniature poodles in the breed ring in addition to obedience, agility and tracking. A friend introduced me to flat coated retrievers and that relationship enabled me to finish my first CT title. After 32 years with German shorthairs, my husband’s worsening allergies have forced a switch to poodles exclusively in recent years. Poodles I have bred and/or owned have earned titles in conformation, tracking, obedience, rally, agility and even herding! I finished my second CT with a home bred miniature poodle. I am honored to have been asked to judge this year’s Belgian Malinois National Tracking