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1. No matter what the dog's breeding or training......they're still a dog, not a machine and certainly not human. Being a dog, sometimes they just act like a dog and no matter what they don't act the way we want them to act.

2. Never and I mean never let your dog watch the other dogs running the series that your dog is about to run just because you think that by watching the other dogs run it will calm your dog down or desensitize your dog to the atmosphere. It just screws them up with the mark and angle from the gunner's station and most likely affect them by losing the mark and being picked up.

3. Trials/hunt test remind us to be humble, extremely humble.

4. If your dog gets picked up on the 1st mark, you can still make it home in time to do the chores that you wouldn't have had to do if you had made it to the last series and been gone all day. And your wife will think that doing chores will help you get your mind off of things. BTW, it didn't work.

5. Did I mention humble?
 
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Yes, very humbling and I truly hate the part about getting home early and the chores that I'd planned on escaping for the entire day/weekend. BTW, if it was AKC HT, it's against regs to let a running dog watch a test that it is going to run.

Until called to be tested, a dog shall be kept where it
cannot see the location of a fall for another dog, or see
the planting or retrieve of a blind, unless such be in
compliance with instructions of the Judges as in a hunting
situation in which the dog is required to honor
before being run. Violation of this Section shall cause
the dog not to receive a Qualifying score. If the Judges
or the Hunting Test Committee believe the violation to
have been deliberate, the occurrence shall be deemed
to have been a display of unsportsmanlike conduct by
the handler and the provisions of Chapter 1, Section 20,
of these Regulations shall also be applicable. If the
incident occurs while the dog’s abilities are being evaluated,
the Judges shall decide whether or not there has
been a violation of this Section and whether or not it
was deliberate, otherwise these decisions shall be
made by the Hunting Test Committee.
 
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This past week I had the privileged of talking to the Gunn's as they finished training in prep for this weekends FT at Volsteads property in Cheshire. My group hadn't arrived yet and we were just watching their dogs run around. Guess what, Stanley is a dog. He acts like a dog, plays like a dog, wants to be petted like a dog. He may be a god of the golden world, but he accepted petting from a lowly human such as myself. At the end of the day, they're all just dogs having fun....

/Paul
 
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DJ,


Sorry that you did not pass....yes, they are just dogs! and yes, it can be very humbling!

allowing your dog to watch other dogs while they pick up marks is not only a no-no, it can negatively affect your dog's own marking because he is watching the marks go down from two different angles.......

Juli
 
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I remember that lesson being hammered home by the trainer when I prepped for my first test. Then my son went along once to run one of the JH dogs, so what did he do but not pay attention to her in the holding blind so she was able to peak around the edge and watch the flyer station/crates of ducks, which unfortunately was the 2nd mark and she completely blew off the first mark when it was her turn just so she could go check out the live bird station. Humility teaches a hard but memorable lesson.
 
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Sorry to hear that. I'm working up to my own thread on how I went out in the first series of the derby yesterday and it wasn't really (at all) the dogs fault.

Learned a pile regards,

P.S.: It was worth the $70.00
 
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Well I am finished licking my wounds today. A nice down the shore blind, but she took no casts, picked her up. She has done this blind before. Came home and mowed the lawn and cleaned the house. Back to training and on to next year. :)

Mary Beth
 
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