Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Etowah Tennessee
Posts: 17

I was scratched for not stricking a dog that was not mine. How does this judge know my dog's voice when we have never met or hunted with my dog? My dog and another dog was not struck in when i caught my dog the dog he said was my dog barked about a hundred yards in front of us but the judge said i was still scratched. The three dogs that were left trailed in a soy bean field for a while i put my dog up and came back the dogs quit barking. We stood there for 2 and a half minutes by my watch and i asked to put the eight on them the judge put his hand up as to say speak to the hand and started the eight about a minute and a halfwent by his dog barked and he turned to me and screamed in my face eight is broke. They went to catch there dogs said they were in a culbert in the middle of this bean field but had to run them down? So i left went down the road and turned out and pleasure hunted treed six in about 45 minutes. But i will be back to Autumn Oaks next year.

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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: east tennessee
Posts: 141

Troy
a couple of things you could have done 1st called for a majority vote from the cast 2/3 maj could override the judge 2nd question the call make the cast got back to the club house if there was enough time to go back and finish the cast I still would have reported this to the master of hounds

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