Terry Adams
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Apr 2007
Location: Coats, NC
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UKC, PKC, AKC, they all can and have learned from one another. I may be wrong, but sometimes rules are changed because another registry has tried it first. Also, I may be wrong, but I'll bet the Performance Program was started because PKC was giving back to the hunter first with their programs. We as hunters (handlers), discuss the rules, programs, etc... from time to time to better our sport. The ones that say, just hunt the other registry, or get a better dog, sounds like their dog might be those babbling, me-too dogs in the hunts, and they don't want any changes.
The only way you're going to get rid of the babbling dogs is to get rid of the strike rule. I know that sounds drastic, but it's the only way. People don't enforce the babble rule in the hunts. It's probably one of the rules that's over-looked the most. A lot of people won't even shut their dog up in the box or kennel, hoping it'll help their dog's loose mouth. Why don't we just train our dogs to be a 1st strike(loose mouth) dog that will cover another dog quickly. That sounds like a winner, Huh.
Why only one set of strike points. If all dogs are split treed, and all dogs have a coon, then why only 1 track. Hey, in that case, the one with 25 strike points must have struck the coldest and hardest track, so that dog should win that drop, right? (You don't have to explain the one track rule fellows, it's a rhetorical question.)
What about the trees are touching crap, when the coon the dogs treed are 3 or more trees over, but people want to plus it. What are we hunting, coons or flying squirrels. But let there be a possum 2 trees over and they won't claim that.
There's a lot more to discuss, and that's how the rules that aren't working, and slick handler problems are corrected, by discussing them, not bad mouthing them.
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