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Declaring a Dog Struck After the Fact

Declaring a Dog Struck After the Fact
Q: Let’s say dog A opens once or twice but is not declared struck. Ten seconds later dog B opens and immediately the handler of dog A strikes his dog. He tells the Judge he is not striking dog B but is striking the dog that had opened earlier. Is that acceptable? CS/OK

A: The first paragraph in the honor rules states a dog must open before it can be declared struck or treed. Rule 9 states handlers are to tell Judge when their dog opens and when dog trees. This is interpreted by UKC to mean that a call must be made by the handler when the dog is opening or immediately after a bark. This prevents a handler from holding off but then jumping in behind someone else for second strike when another dog barks later on or like in the situation described above, the handler of dog A was quick enough to strike his dog before dog B was struck. The handler of dog A did not have to strike his dog initially if it didn’t open more than twice after the first minute of releasing the dog(s). That’s all fine and dandy but now after dog B opens some time later the handler tries to steal a strike position-sorry, that position was lost ten seconds ago unless dog A opens again before dog B is declared struck. Bottom line-you should strike your dog immediately when it opens and not wait until later when another dog in the cast opens.
a question on this, that happened this weekend. dog was declared struck, maybe 30 seconds after it opened , maybe a minute ? delayed call anyway. now no other dogs had barked, it gave one cold sounding bark .i can understand his thoughts, ' HHMM? sounds cold , but heck we only have an hour of time to get some points better take 'em".......??

this is covered in the advisor pg 139 which reads "If you elect not to strike him when he opens, you have to live with it when the competition is getting struck in and your dog isn't saying a word." before that it reads "a dog must be opening when the call is made."

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