T.S. from Kansas writes; Last week I attended a local AKC event and this happened on the cast. All dogs had been struck and dogs A & B were declared treed, their five had expired. While scoring dogs A & B’s tree, dog C was declared treed very deep and hard to hear. After three minutes had elapsed on dog C’s tree, dog D was declared treed in the same direction for 25 points. After the cast finished scoring A & B’s tree we started toward dogs C & D. As we approached it was determined that dog C was off trailing and was minused 125. Dog D was handled and his tree scored plus. The judge insisted that dog D must remain at 25 tree points even though he was treed and scored by himself. Shouldn’t dog D move up to 125 tree points?
Dear T.S. Your judge was correct, you could not move dog D’s tree points to 125 because you did not know if he was by himself the whole time or originally treed with dog C. If you cannot determine accurately what dog was treed where (as in this case) you must assume dog C treed first then dog D backed him for 25. Dog D would deserve no more points just because dog C left and continued on trail. Of course if the cast would have been in a better position when the dogs were declared treed it would have removed all of the guesswork.
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