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| − | Some activities that were being developed by Pavla de la Satu Mare in Aethelmearc as recorded in the files on the Volkshund Yahoo! group.</span>'''''
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| − | <u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">TRIALS AND TESTS - </span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">All activities may be done at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.</span>
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| − | ====<u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">TUNNEL WORK</span></u>====
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| − | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Dog / Handler team negotiate a tunnel and mark quarry. This activity is not competitive, but is a test to determine if the team has developed instinct and training to negotiate tunnel work successfully.</span>
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| − | * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">1) Equipment</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) Wooden tunnels constructed of plywood or a plywood / Plexiglas combination with no more than one third of the tunnel constructed of Plexiglas. There should be no bottom to this tunnel. See technical drawing for construction.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">b) A lure box, must be bottomed and have two doors on the top, one for removal of dog, and a separate one for lure area. Lure should be a scented and furred mechanical lure. See technical drawing for construction.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">c) Appropriate scent diluted with water to mark trail.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">d) One stopwatch.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">e) Handler/ dog equipment; a well fitted plain buckle collar, a six-foot lead</span>
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| − | * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">2) Area Needed</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) There should be at approximately 15-foot clearance from tunnel to fencing.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">b) Minimum for Beginner trial would be 32’ x 38’ for example.</span>
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| − | * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">3) Set-up</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) Track to quarry should be scented at least 30 minutes before first run.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">b) Quarry should be scented at least 30 minutes before first run.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">c) Check interiors of tunnels to assure no stray screws, nails or other hazards intrude into the tunnel, if any are found they must be removed before any dog may run.</span>
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| − | * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">4) Ground Crew</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) One timer</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">b) one scorekeeper</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">c) one lure operator</span>
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| − | * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">5) Rules</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) Handler and dog stand ten feet from the opening of the tunnel.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">b) At the call of “Release the Hound!” The handler will set loose the dog to enter the tunnel. No handler shall throw the dog into the tunnel.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">c) If the hound does not enter the tunnel, the handler will get the dog back under control and stand five feet from the entrance of the tunnel, and wait for the call of “Release the Hound!”.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">d) If the hound does not enter the tunnel a second time, the handler will get the dog back under control and stand at the entrance of the tunnel, and wait for the call of “Release the Hound!”.</span>
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| − | * <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">6) Scoring</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) In this trial the hounds are not competing against one another, the teams are scored on proper completion of tasks, it is a test of training, instinct and team effort.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">b) Point value needed to pass test and move to next level for Beginner and intermediate is - 6 point scores on three tunnel entries, for Advanced – 9 point scores on three tunnel entries. These qualifying scored tunnel entries will be termed legs, there by three legs will have to be completed for the handler / dog team to move forward.</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">First refusal to enter</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">-1</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Second refusal to enter</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">-2</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time from release to start to mark quarry – less than 15 sec</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+5</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time from release to start to mark quarry – 15 to 30 sec</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+3</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time from release to start to mark quarry – 30 to 60 sec</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+1</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time elapsed for marking quarry - more than 45 seconds</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+5</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time elapsed for marking quarry – 30 - 45 seconds</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+3</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time elapsed for marking quarry - less than 30 seconds</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+1</span>
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| − | | ==Intermediate==
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">First refusal to enter</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">-3</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Second refusal to enter</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">-5</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time from release to start to mark quarry – less than 15 sec</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+5</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time from release to start to mark quarry – 15 to 30 sec</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+3</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time elapsed for marking quarry - more than 45 seconds</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+5</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time elapsed for marking quarry - 30 to 45 seconds</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+3</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">First refusal to enter</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">-5</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Second refusal to enter</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">-10</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time from release to start to mark quarry – less than 15 seconds</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+5</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time from release to start to mark quarry – 15 to 45 seconds</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+3</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time from release to start to mark quarry – 45 seconds to 1: 30 minutes</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+1</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Time elapsed for marking quarry - 30 to 45 seconds</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+3</span>
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| − | | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Return to handler on command within 30 seconds</span> || <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">+5</span>
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| − | ====<u><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">TRACKING & TRAILING</span></u>====
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| − | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Dog / Handler team negotiate a scented track across open ground. The trail is marked with flags. This activity may or may not competitive, it is a test to determine if the team has developed instinct and training to negotiate tracking scent successfully. It can be competitive, naming a winner based on time and scoring, if the EWMIC so desires the trial to be ran that way, the nature of the test must be announced at the meeting prior to activities.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) The a minimum of a 15 foot lead (no Flexi’s), a buckle collar , or a harness is encouraged for this activity, but not required at this time.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">b) Appropriate scent diluted with water to mark trail.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">c) Small flags of similar but different color to mark trail yet not allow dogs to differentiate, so as to learn the markers. One flag will be marked specifically for beginning of trail and one for end of trail.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">e) Handler / Dog Equipment; a minimum of a 15 foot lead (no Flexi’s), a harness is encouraged for this activity, but not required at this time.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) Depending on the course set, flags will denote course.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">b) For Beginner for example; A lane 15’ wide and 50 yards long.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) Scent trail is set with flags of same hue marking it, false off color marks are set randomly.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">b) A scent trail will not cross itself on the beginner or advanced levels.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) One scorekeeper</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) Team begins 10 feet from trail beginning flag.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) At ‘Track on!” the timer starts, it ends as the dogs nose reaches the end flag.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">b) 5 seconds penalty will be added for; weaving, swinging loafing, or handler error.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">d) 10 seconds will be removed for dogs that mark quarry. Only one bonus will be given.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) Beginners accomplishing the trial in less than 1:30 minutes will move to the next level.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">b) Intermediates accomplishing the trial in less than 2:30 minutes, will move to the next level.</span>
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| − | <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Dog / Handler team negotiate a straight track with no less than four low hurdles. Dogs must enter a wall with a tunnel; the first dog out on the opposite side is the winner. This is a competitive activity, with winners and / or those who place, if so announced by the EWMIC.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) Sufficient snow fence and poles to secure the run area.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">b) Appropriate number of low hurdles for the level trial being done.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">c) A padded wood or hay bale wall with an 18” x 12” hole located at the center.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">d) A drag lure machine with a furred and scented lure.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">e) Course must have at least a 10 foot width and 10 foot deep release area and 20 foot catch area.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">f) Appropriate scent diluted with water to mark lure.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) Poles for fence are set in a straight line with a maximum 10 paces apart.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">c) one finish line judge (chose a spectator for this!).</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">b) The lure operator starts the lure.</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">d) The first dog whose whole body is through the hole wins!</span>
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| − | ''' <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.5;">a) This is a racing event. Winner is the dog that is through first.</span>
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