Mikey T

Saturday and Sunday Set 3-4 North Lancaster Beagle Club is hosting a AHBA field trial This event is open to all basset. The can be spayed/nuetered . The only requirements are

1. The appear to be pure bred and to the vest of the owners knowledge are purebred
2. under 15" tall
3. register with the AHBA cost $10.00 can be done day of show
4. Pay entry fee

Participating dogs get 1 hour in the field with a cast of other randomly chosen dogs in an effort to find, track, hunt rabbits

Spectators are welome as well For more detail on Field trial post a question here or see What would your hound think of this?

Northern Lancater County Beagle Club
180 Forest RD. Denver,PA 17517

More details can be found here Labor Day hunt in PA

CatherineM

That's great that they are allowing neutered dogs.

Mikey T

AHBA Always has. BHCA/AKC field have allow spay nueters for a few years BHCA/AKC hunt test have always been spay/nueter freindly as well.

Boomer's Mom

Mikey, how come there is a height restriction?

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Mikey T

15" is the disqualifying hieght for basset in AKC field trials and show ring So 15" has become the defacto standard of what constitues a proper basset so I think but do not know for sure why AHBA uses it. As with any cut off there is some arbitraryness to it ie why 15 vs 14 or 15 vs 15 1/2 etc. But a height cut is born out of the purpose of the breed to hunt with the human on foot. there is though to be a percieved advangage in speed with taller dogs. Take beagle for example there are two class in both the show and field trail under 13 and under 15 inches.

For the record I have never actual seen a dog measure but it is a possibility. before the cast actual starts any handler can challenge the height of the dog. if over 15 it is DQ and a report filed.


from AKC breed standard
"Disqualifications
Height of more than 15 inches at the highest point of the shoulder blade.
Knuckled over front legs.
Distinctly long coat. "

these are fault so agregious that even if the dog is pure bred it is not allowed to compete in the breed ring some of these carry over in to the field which is the other venue used to "judge" breeding stock. there are no such restriction in other performance events,

Soundtrack

TBH, 15" (at the shoulder) would be an awfully tall basset.

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Mikey T

SHHHSH DON'T let Toughy know his offical AKC measurment was 15 1/8" in other venues measured in @ 15" and yes he was tall. more than an 1" taller than any other basset I owned. A big strike against early nuetering of males.

Wworm

where's the top of the shoulder? is that the same height as the top of the dog's back?

btw, if you're looking at my back, my back goes UP. my back end is taller than my front end. is that strange?
--Worm

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Mikey T

not strange simply not conformational correct.


the withers is basically between the shoulder blade when measuring dog height the top of the shoulder blades is what is used. it is still a bit impresise and amendable to tweeeking ie fischer that 22 1/2 inch dog has an Offical AKC measurament of 20 1/2 that is because when he was measure he had all four feet at the corner of the table he was standing on rather than straight under him. Lowering the head will cause the dog to measure slightly less as well. The withers is the tallest point of the back on a horse but that is not necesarily true of a dog.

Withers
"The withers is the ridge between the shoulder blades of a four-legged animal. In many species it is the tallest point of the body, and in horses and dogs it is the standard place to measure the animal's height (in contrast, cattle are normally measured to the top of the hips)."

Boomer's Mom

Mikey, how does early neutering affect growth anyway? I had Boomer neutered at 5 months (not that we can do anything about it now!), was that too early?

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