Niven TD

Niven, TD
by Nancy Jorczak

CH Deerpath Vintage Hollywood TD MC, Niven, has some unique tracking characteristics.  When he first started training, he was so excited he reminded me of a kid on an Easter egg hunt.  The track was full of goodies, and he was hooked!
In those early days when he got to a turn he would jump up and turn in the air.  It took a while before he did turns with nose on the ground.  At one test on a windy March day, he was so excited to be outside after a long winter that he just raced in a circle around me at the start.  I was desperately holding the leash above my head and thinking I was going to be the only tracking handler who would go down in history for being strangled by her dog during a test!   He finally got started but took a right turn too early (maybe the wind was responsible), so we did not pass.

I made lots of handler errors with him, so I turned him over to Teryl Lebkuecher, who got his TD on her first try.