Current Competitors
Chime
McNab
DOB 11/13/2000
Teammate - Debi Hutchinson
NATCH-8/Vers-NATCH-8 Chime Platinum Speed Star-2, Triple Superior Versatility S-HP-O
Chime has ranked in the top 3 including several firsts in the McNab ratings in NADAC for the past 2 years.
Chime would be so insulted if I wrote about her agility titles as having much importance at all. There are SO many important things in Chime’s life and agility is just one of them.
Chime’s favorite thing to do is hike, especially if camping is involved. However, she would not do well as a wild dog as sleeping either under covers or in a sleeping bag is absolutely mandatory. She is also a professional squirrel hunter. I have heard it said that “there are professional predators and professional prey” and in our yard, the amateur squirrels are all gone. She loves jumping into the pool but expects an audience and will only jump on command and then she expects cheering for her efforts. She loves making her people laugh and works hard to create smiles on faces. However, she is quite true to her McNab ancestry and does not go out of her way to make friends outside the family, treating most non family members as potential treat sources and that only if she happens to be hungry. Herding sheep is an enjoyable pastime but when faced off by a ewe holding its’ ground her response has been to walk up and lick their noses which is not a particularly good trait in a stock dog but we think it comes from watching “Babe”. She did the same thing to a wild fox she met in the woods so she obviously puts out some very positive vibrations to other animals except, perhaps, squirrels or maybe that’s how she catches them!
Chime is an incredibly gifted canine athlete with a powerful and muscular little body. She was an incredibly ugly puppy but at least in our eyes, she matured into an incredibly beautiful little dog. It is said that dogs come to us as guides and helpers and we often don’t know what they came to help us with until they have left. Chime arrived a year before Gage departed. When Debi was pulled down into a whirlpool of grief when Gage died, it was Chime who threw out the only lifeline that Debi could hold onto and it was Chime who made her smile again and Chime who brought her back. For that gift alone, our debt to Chime is bottomless and whatever else she does or does not do in her life is OK with us.
We cannot imagine living in a world without Chime who is our first McNab. That being said, we also cannot imagine living with TWO OF HER!!!!
Photo courtesy of Diane Lewis Editing by Debi Hutchinson
