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| Clyde Gott | Feb 18 2009, 11:58 PM |
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Food for thought.... I've seen rabbits run across a field with a strong cross wind...and when the dogs came through they ran 20 or more feet off the actual line of the rabbit. Scent was high and the dogs didn't need to run "foot print" scent...they was running "body scent" that was drifting in the wind. Here's something else to ponder...where in the rule book does it say a dog's gotta be a "head-down chop-mouth"??? When the scent is high...give me a hound that can pick her head up and shift gears!!! In this scenario...is this hound gona weave a little? If she's, "making the best possible progress"...let her weave on!!! As judges…all we can do is observe “what is”…then make application of the rule book…and push on. If so, at the end of the day…one should be proud to “own up” and defend their winners pack. Keep watching and don’t be “quick to judgment”….case in point: seven dog winners pack…scent is good and the wind is blowing hard. When scent is good/high…one of my bitches can lift her head and roll on. Well…we’re moving right a long and come out into an open field with cover very low to the ground. My bitch is up near the front…suddenly she appears to “float” out to the left (by herself). The rest of the pack stays together while my bitch loops out some 6 or 8 feet to the left. Well, one of the judges immediately gives that arm swing out to the side motion and points at my bitch. She did this three times and the judge that made the motion wanted her up or BUST!!! Here’s as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story…my bitch was running air/body scent…and the rest of the pack was running track/foot scent. They had their heads down tracking…while my bitch had her head up and was cruising/weaving with the scent that was drifting in the wind! Not only did that judge not recognize my bitch’s ability to run a rabbit…he became blind to the “fact” that each time my bitch “got out” (in his mind) the pack kept COMING BACK TO HER…why because SHE had the rabbit!!! Sadly, the other judge “caved in” when the one judge wouldn’t budge until my bitch came up. Watch closely and take notes. Each pack is telling a story…are we listening…but more importantly, are we learning anything? Take care and keep’em running… |
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