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Originally posted by JiM
Dog A has all the priority because he was treed first. Until dog B's tree closes, that handler must stay with the cast and walk to dog A's tree. If dog B's tree closes before the cast begins shining dog A's tree, that handler can go handle his dog. If the cast is shining dog A's before dog B closes, he is stuck with the cast till dog A's tree is scored. That's how I understand the rule. I don't think the judge can allow handler B to leave the cast until dog B's tree closes but of course, I could be wrong about that.
There have always been situations in UKC where your dog is behind and gaining fast and you find the hunt time burning off in large chunks while you walk around scoring other dogs.
There has always been situations where you are behind and you have to walk away from your dog when you really want to be walking to him.
Theses are some of the differences between pleasure hunting and comp hunting. You can't pick the comp hunt and act like your pleasure huhting.
I agree with this 100 percent. The judge cannot allow B's handler to leave the cast and head to his tree because there are still other dogs trailing that might end up on his tree before the 5 expires therefor there may be other handlers that need to go with him to handle their dogs at the same time. Now the real kicker in all this is I believe you should not begin shining A's tree until the handler of B, ties his dog and rejoins the rest of the cast at A's tree. I know its easier to just say stay with your dog and the rest of us will score A's tree. but unless you have a cast that you know are all honest sportsman this is a dangerous move-I was on a cast just like this once where we let handler B go to his dog and told him to just stay there we would score the other tree without him. The tree was as obviously slick as it gets, but the dogs handler had 225+ and first and first on the slick tree and was absolutely willing to do anything it took to avoid going back to zero so he voted to circle, because he knew it took a majority of the cast to minus, not the majority at the tree, but the majority of the cast and we weren't all there! I guess the best thing you can hope for is the handler of B has enough confidence in his dog to just say just leave him there till after we score A, otherwise it's going to be a huge chunk of time wasted and bad break to score things properly per the rules,
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