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Old March 10th 11, 04:43 AM posted to rec.pets.dogs.behavior
Jo Wolf
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Default Another Fun Activity.....

The AKC has just held it's introductory trials for the new Coursing
Ability Title (CAT). Or "lure coursing for the rest of us." Open to
all breeds and mixes, requires three succesful runs for the title. I
have not yet compared the rules to those for sighthound lure coursing
titles. They're somewhere on the AKC site under events.

Three Border Terriers qualified at th event up in KY.... grandmother
(age 10 1/2), daughter, and granddaughter. As Granny ran first on all
three runs, she qualified for her CAT as the first of the breed. Very
cool.

Back in the late 1980s, at a couple of working terrier fun days, outside
of Wichita Falls, TX, rather than running terrier races, lure courses
were set up..... much shorter and less complex than for"real" lure
coursing. Fred and Alvin went bonkers over it.

The guy who had the equipment and Rhodesians set it up to run up a tree
trunk at the end. A kennel-full of miniature Dachshunds ran as a pack.
As they went across the back stretch, all we could see of them was tips
of tails and tips of ears above the brush. The trees in that region all
tip to the North due to the prevailing winds from the Gulf during
growing season, and one of those little Dachs males dashed a good four
feet above the ground after the white plastic bag lure. Alvin jumped up
to try to catch the lure.... did get a scrap of it.... Fred quickly
learned to recognize the "zing" of the lure line, and if I didn't have
him back in his crate before the next run started, I was in trouble to
control him. (Later, after a few terrier races with a start box, Fred
put the"zing" together with the box and would go wild when he just saw
the start box.)

Our breed club has had lure coursing available as a fun event off and on
over the years..... A real "natural" for working terriers with high
prey drive. No boring precision training required.

My boss, who had Pharaoah Hounds about the time they came into AKC,
coursed them with AFSA before AKC lure coursing began.... then with
AKC. Several of them had their Field Championships with AFSA.

Jo Wolf
Martinez, Georgia

 




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