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Re: Re: Yet another "how to score"?
quote: Originally posted by JiM
No, you cannot run the 2 on a dog that is handled. In this situation, if you just have one judge and the other handler goes to the tree alone, all you can do is rely upon his basic honesty to run the 2 on his dog if it shuts up before it gets handled. Unless it was just plain obvious that the dog shutup before the handler could have possibly got to it but even then, as the judge, you would have to be able to judge that dog while you are walking to the other dogs. Not likely.
I think maybe we should get an official UKC statement on this. How long as a judge do you spend looking for a dog that is not barking? One hour? When you get back to the spot where you could easily hear the dog that had been declared treed, if it is not barking, and you can't start a 2 on it, should you start the hour? What if another dog is on track? Obviously you could cut loose to it, but if it gets treed in the meantime, while you are wandering around the woods for an hour looking for a dog that is not barking, should you leave and go score the dog that is?
IMO, no matter what UKC's policy is, it seems completely unreasonable to put a cast in a situation where they are walking around a woods looking for a dog not barking. Seems that to simplify things good policy would state that the two can be applied until the judge arrives.
It can be hard enough to get to a dog that is barking, finding ways across streams, wet holes, thickets, etc. With your Garmin turned off how do you try to go in a straight line towards where the dog was treed?
How do you know the dog/dogs are handled?
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