The Future of our Australian Retrieving Trials
Posted: Wed 26 Apr 2017 5:43 pm
Watch this video and make your own decision.
https://youtu.be/AfFz_Tq2wT4
Is this the direction our Australian Retrieving Trials are heading.
No sagacity in any of our dogs - Whats that you say, might pay to look up what the word Sagacity means.
It means allowing the dogs to display their own natural hunting ability. i.e. Casting to wind, Slowing down at the depth of the fallen game and hunting it out . Effectively hunting and locating game out of site of the handler. etc
Are our future Trials to be held on racetracks, with TV coverage?
This is the way we are heading with nothing but STRAIGHT line runs in open cover.
It's a pity to see Australia heading down this track, maybe in the future we will have a ring next to dancing with dogs ?
Hopefully in the future, the Judges will re-read RULE 1 and apply it to the assessment of their runs.
Viewing judges with stop watches in seeing how quick a dog can effect a retrieve is NOT in our rule book.
Please consider and give it some thought.
John Lawton
https://youtu.be/AfFz_Tq2wT4
Is this the direction our Australian Retrieving Trials are heading.
No sagacity in any of our dogs - Whats that you say, might pay to look up what the word Sagacity means.
It means allowing the dogs to display their own natural hunting ability. i.e. Casting to wind, Slowing down at the depth of the fallen game and hunting it out . Effectively hunting and locating game out of site of the handler. etc
Are our future Trials to be held on racetracks, with TV coverage?
This is the way we are heading with nothing but STRAIGHT line runs in open cover.
It's a pity to see Australia heading down this track, maybe in the future we will have a ring next to dancing with dogs ?
Hopefully in the future, the Judges will re-read RULE 1 and apply it to the assessment of their runs.
Viewing judges with stop watches in seeing how quick a dog can effect a retrieve is NOT in our rule book.
Please consider and give it some thought.
John Lawton