March 2025
On March 3rd: Happy 13th “Dare”, how amazing you are GCHB DC Isell’s Itoby HSAds HIAds HXAds MX MXJ NF BCAT CG ROM I HOF Reg BISS whose Get accomplishments include (with just 7 dams):
1 Triple CH
2 Dual CH’s
1 AGGCH
12 MACHs
2 OTCH
4 GCHS
1 GCHB
8 more GCH & CH’s
3 UDs with CH’s
2 CDX
The Only NS BISS Dual CH
The Only NS BOSS Dual CH
Multiple BISS or BOSS winners
Multiple Group Placers
10 Hall of Fame
7 ROM I
6 non-Advanced Herding or Obed Titles
1 SAR HRD III
1 Service Dog

February 2025
The newest conformation champion in the Turick Family is “Kali” (a Richter x Kava daughter) owned by Monique Buzzarté and Carolyn Kaiser. Kali left the snow, ice, and bitter cold of the Northeast far behind and headed south to the conformation shows in Florida (Brooksville, Ocala and the first day of Lakeland for that last point). Superbly presented by Trina Matteson, Kali became a new champion on February 13th, finishing with 15 points and 3 majors from 5 judges and is now formally known as CH Turick’s To Infinity BCAT. (Monique also owns Kali’s grandpa BOSS GCH DC Turicks Wakiya UD TDX HSAds HXAds BCAT TT DS CGC ROM I “Key.”)

January 2025
New Year,  New Idea!    
This month will highlight Dare‘s first litter (Dare x Raina, whelped in June 2014). Those nine puppies (3 boys, 6 girls) are now 10 1/2 years old and all dearly beloved family members who are cherished beyond all measure. “Harley” was placed as a Service Dog, doing real work for her person (now all grown up!) and another “Rocket Girl” helped raise a young family on both sides of the pond – while gone far too soon, she will be loved forever. The other seven have all been active in the dog world. Their prefix titles to date include one GCHS (Amy), one GCHB (Taser) and one GCH DC (Key) along with two CH (Alli and Tora), eleven MACH (Bali with 7, Tora with 3, Blah with 1), one AGCH (Slash), and one PACH (Bali). Suffix titles from dogs without a prefix title in that sport include so far: in obedience, three UD (Key, Taser, Alli), and one CDX (Bali) and one PCDX (Alli); in Rally, one RE (Alli) and one RA (Bali); in herding, one HXAs (Alli) and one HIAs (Taser); in agility, one MX, AXJ, MXP and MJP (Alli); and in tracking, one TDX (Key). Numerous other suffix titles as well. Three have already been inducted into the ABMC Halls of Fame  (Amy for Conformation, Bali and Tora for Agility) and two more will be inducted this coming May (Key for Herding and Slash for Agility).  Starting off series of occasional contributions from owners from the Turick brown dog family about their own dogs is Lisa Halprin, writing here about her “Bali”:

“Bali”
PACH MACH7 Turicks Kinetic Balance CDX RA
MXB3 MJC2 MXP2 MJP2 MXF CA SCN CGCA TKP   
by Lisa Halpin

Bali is a wonderful companion and amazing competitor. This girl is happy, friendly and eager to please. She will go anywhere and try anything as long as we are together.  She truly enjoys teamwork!

Bali earned her first MACH just prior to turning 4 years old on on 6/17/18.  MACH2 came on 10/26/19; MACH3 on 7/7/21; MACH 4 on 2/24/22;  MACH 5 on 2/4/23;  MACH6 on 9/17/23; and MACH7 on 5/19/24.  Bali’s other agility honors include running at the 2022 National Specialty where she earned both the Agility High in Trial and High Combined Awards.  Also in 2022, Bali was the only Malinois invited to the 3rd AKC Agility Premiere Cup. With only 100 dogs in the country invited to compete, Bali ran all clean runs, made the 20″ finals, and placed 5th in a 20″ class that aside from her was comprised entirely of Border Collies. Now running Preferred at 16”,  Bali continues to love agility, still excels, and just earned her first PACH on 12/29/24.

Over the course of her agility career Bali has received many honors, including four consecutive years of first round invitations to the AKC Agility Invitational between 2021 – 2024. The top five dogs of each breed are invited to this event. In 2021 Bali was the #4 invite and with approximately 170 dogs in her 20” class she ran four clean rounds and made the finals, finishing on the podium in 3^rd place. In  2022 her invite was #3;  in 2023 it was #1, and last year, in 2024, it was #4.   What made last year’s first round invitation so special for us was that in July 2024, at the end of the qualifying year, I had moved the just turned 10 year old Bali down from 20” to a preferred height of 16.”  However, she still had to jump 20” at the Invitational, and she was perfect!  Competing against approximately 180 dogs in the 20” class she ran clean run in all rounds and made the finals, placing 5th. When interviewed by ESPN, the reporter asked me if I was surprised to have a 10 year old dog running agility, and I replied “No, not at all!  But I was surprised that she made the finals in the 20” jump height class since for the last 5 months she’s only been jumping 16 inches.”

In the years ahead, we plan to continue competing in Preferred Agility along with working towards our Obedience Utility title as Bali  earned her CD and CDX titles in three trials each, all with 1st or 2nd placements.