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Read the last sentence carefully UKC has already made a ruling for us to follow a couple of years ago.
Coonhound Advisor
June 22, 2016
Source: Allen Gingerich
As published in May 2016 Coonhound Bloodlines.
Off Game in a Live Trap
Q: I have what is likely a dumb question, but here goes. I was in a hunt this past weekend in a three-dog Nite Champion cast. Halfway through the hunt, one dog was withdrawn, leaving two dogs to finish the hunt. On the very next turnout, the two remaining dogs shot down the woods about 500 yards and load up and start treeing. Both dogs were declared treed. After 10 minutes of walking getting to them, we arrived to find them treed on a live trap on the ground. In the trap was a squirrel. I was the judge on the cast and, to be honest, my head was spinning trying to come up with the right call. Im well aware that you cant score a coon in a trap, but this one had off-game. I ended making the call to scratch the dogs, one of which was my own.
After thinking about it more, Im really second-guessing my call in the woods. Reason being, points are deleted if a trap or a cage has a coon it, so why would it be scored any other way regardless of the species of game in then trap or the cage? All three of us handlers discussed it at length and we all saw it both ways. If scratching was the wrong call, then I really hate it for the other guys dog.
L. Thompson, South Carolina
A: Theres currently no reference of it in the rulebook, but youre right, UKC maintains that points should always be deleted in the case of dogs treeing on a locked live trap or a cage. It is also UKCs position that the game being held in the trap or cage does not make any difference. Although youll probably never see that happen again, its one to keep in your back pocket for future reference. While were on the topic, lets further clarify that it doesnt matter if the trap is holding a raccoon, off-game, a scent rag or nothing at all. Delete the points and go on.
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