2012 Annual Highlights
Moxie
Became the first AKC Coursing Ability Excellent (CAX) titled Bulldog
1 Q toward an AKC Versatility (VER) title with a first place
All 4 offspring completed multiple health tests & earned AKC titles
Both Moxie & her littermate, Gabe, received BCA’s highest level of Health Ambassador Award (Platinum)
Littermate, Gabe, & breeder, Cheryl Knapp, had a great year in multiple events
Check out Gabe’s website for details: www.GabeRocks.com
Tipsy
Became the second Coursing Ability Excellent (CAX) titled Bulldog. Her dam (Moxie) was the first.
Completed her AKC Companion Dog (CD) obedience title 3 for 3 with placements for all 3 legs in all-breed competition
Earned Highest Scoring Non-Sporting Breed in Trial (AKC obedience)
Completed her AKC Beginner Novice (BN) obedience title
Completed her AKC Novice & Open Agility Preferred titles (NAP & OAP)
Completed her AKC Novice Jumper Preferred (NJP) title
2 Qs toward an Open Jumper Preferred title
Became a second generation titleholder in AKC obedience, rally, standard agility, jumpers agility & coursing
Rowdy & Jack
Completed their AKC Coursing Ability Advanced (CAA) titles
Rocky (& Tiew)
The first/only male Bulldog to earn AKC’s top level all-breed Coursing title – Coursing Ability Excellent (CAX)
Completed his AKC Novice Agility Preferred (NAP) title
1 Q toward an AKC Novice Jumper Preferred (NJP) title
1 Q toward an AKC PreNovice/PreCompanion Dog (PCD) obedience title with a 3rd place
Completed his AKC Beginner Novice (BN) obedience title with a 3rd place
Penny
Completed her AKC Beginner Novice (BN) title & is the oldest Kuvasz bitch to earn an AKC title
Completed her AKC Open Agility Preferred (OAP) title at 10 yrs of age & is the oldest Kuvasz ever to title in AKC agility
Penny, Legend & Moola are the only Kuvasz dam, sire & offspring trio with open level AKC agility titles
Awarded KCA’s annual OFA Champion of Health
Honored, along with her son, Tanner, as OFA Champions of Health in OFA’s online gallery
Dam of the National Specialty winner (Tanner) and Best of Opposite to him (Song)
Legend
Completed his Beginner Novice (BN) obedience title
Lived up to his name with more breed history – the oldest Kuvasz ever to earn an AKC title
Legend, Penny & Moola are the only Kuvasz sire, dam & offspring trio with open level AKC agility titles
Son, Astro, was Number 4 in Breed & Number 9 in All-Breed
Ruby
Great grandson, Botti, completed his AKC Companion Dog (CD) obedience title from the Novice A class
Tanner (& handler Diana Wilson & B/O/H Lynn Brady)
America’s #7 Show Dog out of all dogs of all breeds shown
Was awarded his 50th BIS
Earned Multiple Back-to-Back Bests in Show
Won the Kuvasz National Specialty for the 4th year in a row & an all-breed BIS the same weekend
BOB at the Westminster Kennel Club show
Became the top winning Kuvasz ever at the prestigious AKC Eukanuba National Championship with:
***Best of Breed, ***Group 2, ***Best Bred By Exhibitor, & ***Bred By Group 3
Moola (& Connie)
Completed her Companion Dog Excellent (CDX ) obedience title
Became the first champion in the breed to earn AKC’s Versatile Companion Dog 2 (VCD2) title
Matched & surpassed her sire’s (Legend) breed history:
Legend set the record in October of 2003 as the only champion Kuvasz to hold open AKC titles in both
obedience & agility. He held that record for 9 years until his daughter, Moola, became the second & only
other champion Kuvasz ever to earn a CH + a CDX + Open Agility titles in AKC events
Passed the American Temperament Test Society’s testing to earn her TT
Became the 9th Kuvasz to earn an AKC Tracking Dog (TD) title
In Agility, earned 7 MXP legs, 1 MJP leg, and a Double Q
Represented the Kuvasz breed at the AKC Eukanuba National Agility
Received AKC’s Award of Merit as the Top Agility Kuvasz for 2012
The only Kuvasz ever to have been Breeder/Owner/Handled (by Connie Townsend) for all these achievements
Song
National Specialty BOS to her littermate, Tanner
Number 8 Kuvasz in All-Breed & Number 12 in Breed
Szumeria Kuvasz
Our dear friends, mentors and partners in all things Kuvasz – Lynn Brady & Connie Townsend of Szumeria – were honored by the American Kennel Club as the 2012 Working Group Breeders of the Year.