Originally Posted by Dean

gsally,

the hounds know the routine, and at the end of the hour will generally stop if you are within about 20 - 30 feet. At the AKC field trial they run for about 5 minutes, and my hounds do not want to stop.

At the Spring National, Muttley was called back in third place, and ran against the other 3 hounds. I think it was too hot for the rest, but Muttley was doing great. He totally out did all others to win the champion class. The judges were ending the early runs as soon as he beat his bracemate, to not wear him out, but on the last run, they let him keep running. I had a 16 year old young lady running him. He got a good head start on her and she had a hard time catching up to him. Running down one path, she scared a rabbit out of a brush pile and it run across in front of her, she did not see it coming and kicked it.