CH. Judiciary's Big EZ of Sherick x Sherick's Scarlet O'Terror
owned and handled by Tony Plott
After a hard day's work
Coming back downstream after a water trail.
Belle made her first find on her very first call which was an intoxicated man that ran from a vehicle. She was one year old at the time. She worked over 40 calls for nine different agencies. She contributed evidence in the conviction of a murderer, two armed robbers, a prison escapee, a domestic violence suspect and several misdemeanants. Other trails have been verified by the suspects when interviewed later. Her oldest trail was five days and her freshest trail, 20 minutes. The longest trail was five miles. Her worst injury was a barbwire cut while chasing a prison escapee (eight stitches). Her most memorable trail was September of 2000 on a missing 90 year old woman. Officers had searched for four hours with no success. Belle found the woman in about 20 minutes laying by a fence in the knee-high weeds. At the time Tony was totally unaware that the traffic airplane circling overhead was following the trail and broadcasting it on the FM radio stations. Belle was one of the few Bloodhounds that could trail off lead if necessary and could be trusted to return or sit upon command. Her temperament was extremely docile until the scent command is given. It is then that she lived up to her name… Belle O’ Fire. Belle attended five trailing seminars. She was part of an elite group of ten Bloodhounds on call for the FBI. It has been my (Tony) experience that Belle’s temperament and ability were typical of a Sherick’s bred dog. They have been quite easy to spot as I’ve attended various seminars… beautiful heads, coloring, conformation, and trailing machines.