Hunt Test Question

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Lil Dikens Kennels

Discussion Starter · Jun 9, 2007

In a SH or MH test the dog is sent on the go bird and picks it up,instead of returning to the handler the dog goes to the second mark and without dropping the first bird,get them both in his mouth and then returns to the line.
How is this judged and why ?

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K G

· #14 · Jun 10, 2007

The only thing close is a switch and a switch can only be ruled when the dog drops one bird and delivers another.

From the current AKC HT regs/guidelines, Part III, The Abilities of Retrievers, Section III, Perseverance/Courage/Hunting, paragraph four:

"Switching implies that a dog gives up in its hunt after a search, leaves the area, and goes for another bird, or, when it drops a bird that it is retrieving and goes for another."

The dog does not have to deliver the bird it goes for in order to be eliminated for a switch.

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K G

· #18 · Jun 10, 2007

The dog dropped the bird it was retrieving to go for another bird.

Giving up the hunt is not the issue. Switching is. That's why I put the section of the sentence pertinent to this discussion in bold type.

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K G

· #21 · Jun 10, 2007

Bubba said:
Lil Dikens Kennels said:

In a SH or MH test the dog is sent on the go bird and picks it up,instead of returning to the handler the dog goes to the second mark and without dropping the first bird,get them both in his mouth and then returns to the line.
How is this judged and why ?

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Not seeing a switch here regards

Bubba

I would concur.

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K G

· #24 · Jun 10, 2007

My quote from the regs/guidelines was in response to an errant interpretation of the kind of switch that was described as "close" to this scenario.

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K G

· #33 · Jun 11, 2007

Correct, but in the context of this discussion, giving up without finding a bird is not what we're talking about here. In this discussion, the dog already has the first bird.

Which is why I went the extra mile in over-explaining my post. I took absolutely NO issue with the original post.

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