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Chris' herding achievements

XCALIBER DU CLOS DE LA FOURRIERE

("Chris" aka "XMass")

Chris was rescued 12/29/94 from Stanislaus County Animal Control, age aprox 6 months. He was very ill and had been scheduled to be killed the day before, but somehow he was over-looked. A shelter worker phoned me when she discovered him alive the next morning, begging me to save him. She thought he was a 4 month old Giant Schnauzer, but his teeth said he was about 6 months. He gazed up at me hopefully, and I was lost.

He was originally named "Xmass" because he was the 24th dog I had rescued and I was working my way through the alphabet. It was just after Christmas that I rescued him. This "X" becomes "Xmass" and "Chris". As he became Bones' adopted son, thus as the son of "Xterminator" he needed an official X name and thus "Xcaliber", for both the magic sword and the unmagic bullet.

TITLES EARNED

• HRD I - s, 8/10/96, AHBA Herding Ranch Dog level I , sheep
• HRD II - s, 1/19/97, AHBA Herding Ranch Dog level II , sheep
• HTD I - d, (date ?), AHBA Herding Trial Dog level I , ducks
• HRD III-s, 6/24/00, AHBA Herding Ranch Dog level III, sheep
• Parcours FranÁais II, (9/11/96) , AHBA Parcours Francais , level II -- rated "excellent"
• STD-s, 8/9/97, ASCA Started Trial Dog. sheep
• STD-d, 8/10/97, ASCA Started Trial Dog. ducks
• OTD-s, 8/9/98, ASCA Open Trial Dog. Sheep
• Parcours FranÁais I/II = BrÍvet de Travail sur Troupeau (mouton) -- M Paillard
• Parcours FranÁais III, 10/30/99 -- M LeGoff

Chris was also the first mixed breed dog other than a Border Collie mix to earn the AHBA's HTCh = Herding Trial Champion. (I don't have a note of the date.) Bones had been the very first dog of any breed to earn the HTCh.

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