Bark!! Bark!!! Oh hi, welcome to my home page. Just doing my job as Security
Engineer here at ThugsRUs Networks. I've always had a natural talent for
the networking business. From pulling and recrimping ethernet cables, and
removing PCMCIA cards/ethernet cables out of running laptops when certain
humans have been working too much. From time to time I handle some customer
relations with excita pee and leaving surprises for certain network engineers.
I'm a Field English Springer Spaniel and was born 4/29/98 at
Guadiara kennels in Amanda, OH
(just south of Columbus). I'm named after my human's favorite beach, Torrey
Pines State Reserve in San Diego, CA (see the
park page and the
association). The picture second from the bottom is me at 12 weeks and the one below that was just taken of us at a hunt test where I had to work.
A few years ago my human thought it would be good for me to get in touch with
my inner Springer and start to learn how to really be a field dog. I just used
to love to run, chase squirels, and catch frisbees. He got this other dog and boy he turned our lives upside down.
Now I love run, find birds, flush and retrieve them. My human started entering
me in these things call Hunt Tests and I just finished my AKC Senior Hunter title. I have to show I can find birds, relitively steady for the shot and then retrieve/bring it back to my human, then have to do a hunt dead (I don't know where the bird is and have to find it) and then retrieve a bird out of the water. We have to successfully complete 5 of them to get that title thing. What ever!!! I have fun cause I get to have birds. Here is our record:
- 5/14/2005 - SMSSTC
Photos: Getting out of Water All Done - 9/03/2005 - WESSA
- 6/10/2006 - SSCA
Photos: After the field On your Mark Mission Accomplished - 6/11/2006 - SSCA
Photos: Retrieve in the field Jumping In - 9/3/2006- WESSA Senior Hunter Title!!!
He retired me after my Senior Title, something it would not be in either of our best interests to go for Master. But he still trains me and gives me birds.
BTW my human is nuts. He thinks he needs 3 of us around the house. First was this little pup that grew into something called the
Trazinator. But he tragically passed on. But a month later the north winds blew another one in from Maine. This one is called Kaboom and boy does he live up to that one. He's fun but a little much for me to handle these days. I leave the playing up to the other dog.