Rip
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quote: Originally posted by Max LeBleu
Thanks everyone for the responses.
I want to get a feel for how people think. It makes judging a cast a little easier.
I am not minus happy but I do want to judge based on what the dog is doing.
Just like Trevor he interprets the coming in rule as stopping and standing there. I have read and re-read and it does not say stop and stand there.
More club members said minus than not. But a lot of these guys are saying this because none of us want that type of dog. But here we go again we shouldn't judge based on what type dog we like we should judge based on the rules. I think this rule can be interpreted several different ways.
Also the guy that didn't want to minus them also had a little trouble minusing his dog on tree. He packed that tree several hundred yards before he was convinced he was moving. He did finally agree he was moving. It was funny!
I like to give people an opportunity to make the call on their dog. You learn a lot about the person.
May the best dog win!
"Coming in" is a judgement call. Any judge should be able to tell that. Sounds like these dogs didn't "come in" but were just "coming through". You said yourself they had one thing on their mind, going to the other dogs. That's not coming in to the cast that's going through the cast to the other dogs. Big difference. You also said they came through at a dead run. Sounds like you guys were just in the way of where they wanted to go and if that is the case then you could not legally minus them.
Like you said, we can't judge a cast by what is deserved or not. You have to go by the rules. The dog has to quit track and "come in" meaning come into the cast, not come through or by going somewhere else.
And no, it doesn't have to stop and stand there either, we all should know the difference in a dog coming back in to the handler and a dog coming through the area and we just happen to be in the way.
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Last edited by Rip on 04-23-2012 at 03:36 AM
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