JiM
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Originally posted by Bruce m. Conkey
I think we should take one step back from any rule proposed and ask yourself "what does this rule change do to our future hunting" Like it or not the rules determine how our dogs will be in the future 5 or 10 years down the line. If most of the people agree that the standards of a coonhound should not be to cover then the present rule needs to be changed.
Just like if they came up with a rule that any dog with white on its ears would be penalized highly on the bench and its chances of winning would be slim. What do you think would happen. No one with show dogs would even breed close to any dogs that throw white on a pups ears and they sure wouldn't show one. Same with out competition hounds. The rules determine our future. Change them carefully!
Thankfully I have lived a long life but with that I have went from a era that all dogs treed together to one of today that most dogs are split and won't honor another dog. Now the dogs that won't honor sometimes perform to expectations and tree their coon. Many are a little nuts and will grab a tree a few trees away or jealous tree. Some will locate on the tree with the other dog just to make it hard on the handler then move on and not tree a coon because it was in the tree that another dog was treeing on. Time and rule changes over the years have warranted the need for changes to the way these dogs are trained. Some handlers have understood this and some just don't get it.
I disagree that the countdown will automatically eliminate dogs from covering. A dog that covers in that last minute can still get 125 plus points and that ain't nothing to sneeze at. Especially if the dog with first tree only struck in for 25. I doubt anyone likes or allows their dog to quit a track to go cover and most have always corrected dogs for doing that, or at least we have since the advent of TriTronics. But if a dog has nothing going and covers for plus points, who doesn't want those points?
I don't see a countdown rule making any great wholesale changes in our dogs. It WILL probably push some of these trainers to expect better of their dogs.
I don't know about anyone else but as someone still raising and trying to train dogs that win, the UKC rule book or any other rule book for that matter, is not what's on my mind when I'm in the woods working dogs. But maybe that is why I am not one of the famous trainers.
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