BLACK SHADOW DANCER

"TARA"

                                                        Sire : Langfaulds Invictor             Dam : Kyrie of Deansgrove

                                                                    5/11/1983  to  7/6/1999

 This is my German Shepherd "Tara". She was my first dog and was a joy to live with. I took her to basic obedience classes when she was a few months old, and the trainers there though she had potential to compete in Obedience. Thanks to the  encouragement of Don Lyon, we quickly picked up the training and began to compete. During her time in competition we won out of Beginners, Novice and "A" and had won 2 "B"s before I retired her. She was a super obedience dog, never once breaking stays or failing a scent, however we did have an unreliable retrieve despite many attempts by experienced trainers to resolve the issue and this did cost her many classes at times. However I was just happy that she did so well as she had a pancreas condition which meant medication most of her life as well as recovering from Parvo amongst other things and she was still loving life right up until a stroke in June 1999 which was followed by another one the following day which meant she had to be put to sleep as she wasn't going to recover from the second one. I am just grateful that I had her for as long as I did considering her early years illnesses and that she had fun during that life.