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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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