Spring 2008 Voice - The Dachshund Club of America, Inc.

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GETTING THE WORD OUT! The DACHS-FIELD-EVENT-INFO@Yahoogroups.com list is a site specifically set up to post premium lists for upcoming field trials and earthdog tests. Carrie Hamilton will forward information about upcoming events to a private email list that includes over 200 addresses of interested people from around the country. You may contact her at HAMILTCE@airproducts.com . It should be remembered that many of us :o) appreciate links to club or individual’s websites where announcements and premiums are posted rather than receiving large attachments directly. JoAnn Frier-Murza (digm2@aol.com) maintains a website with links for upcoming earthdog tests in the east – www.earthdog.info will link to the homepage of the Village Green Earthdog Center in New Jersey. Dennis Broderick maintains a website for earthdog tests held in the west (“and anyone else who asks”). Dennis’ website is located at http://www.duffyscavern.org/Earthe_dogges.html . There is a calendar feature on the DCA Performance Events list that we are attempting to utilize to help clubs plan their future events around a schedule that sometimes fluctuates from year to year. Please consider using it as it provides much more immediate notice than waiting on “The Voice” or the AKC website. NEW EARTHDOG BOOK PLANNED JoAnn Frier-Murza (digm2@aol.com) of Lothlorien Working Terriers and Dachshunds and the Village Green Farm Earthdog Center, NJ is working on the second edition of her book "Earthdog Ins & Outs" and would like to solicit input: "Making tunnels is always a question that new earthdoggers and new test committees want to know about. The AKC rules are specific about some components, but there are lots of possibilities as to how to accomplish the rest. Although the straight parts of the tunnels are pretty routine, the dogquarry end and the doors on top of the tunnels can vary a lot. If you have judged at an event where the tunnel design was especially well done, please let me know where it was. If you are part of a club committee who has thought hard to make tunnels that are versatile and useful, I can use your help. I can share these designs in a section of the book, and people will be able to see what has worked for your club and in our test environment. Drawings or photos of the designs and a description of any construction trick that isn't easy to figure out from the picture would be great. Explain why this design works so well for the judge, dog, and exhibitor. Make sure to let me know who or what club should be credited with the design and the pictures." SPRING 2008 6 of 37
PERFORMANCE JUDGES AND THE AKC Application Process for New Earthdog Event Judges From the AKC website: The AKC Performance Events Department announces a revised application process for prospective Earthdog judges. The process for becoming a judge begins by attending an Earthdog seminar taught by an AKC field representative. At the seminar, a Judges Application form will be handed out. It is the responsibility of the applicant to fill out the form as eligibility requirements are completed. Once all requirements have been met, the application form should be mailed to the Performance Events Department, 5580 Centerview Drive, Raleigh, NC 27606. Upon verification of the information provided, the person will receive a judge's number, their name will appear in the Judges Online Directory on the AKC web site, and they will be approved to judge a licensed Earthdog event at the Junior Earthdog (JE) level. Additional apprenticeships at higher levels are required to judge at the Senior Earthdog and Master Earthdog level, but this is done after the initial application has been submitted. For information about upcoming Earthdog seminars, please click here. For additional questions, please contact Lisa Carroll at LAC@akc.org. JUDGES RECORDS AT AKC It was recently discovered that the judges' directory listed on the AKC website has been set up to "drop" names that have not shown any activity in a while. This was a program developed by the website managers to keep them from overloading the database. (It appears to be about 6 years of inactivity will cause a name to be dropped.) According to Lisa Carroll, AKC Performance Events Manager, this does not mean that people taken off the list will AUTOMATICALLY not be approved to judge again. A club wanting to hire a judge in this position would need to contact AKC Performance Events, much in the way we do now when getting earthdog judges approved for a higher class. Each case will then considered individually by her office. Suppose, for example, you want to hire a judge who has not done any judging for several or more years but had extensive experience prior to the lapse in assignments. In this case, the AKC may decide to either simply re-approve the judge or require that the judge takes a test (not necessarily a seminar) in order to demonstrate that their knowledge of the regulations is current. If a judge is not reapproved, it would most likely be because they had very limited experience prior to the lapse. Lisa mentioned that no where in the regulations does it stipulate that the AKC cannot impose additional restrictions on the judges' approval process and further noted that this policy is really being enforced from a "common sense" perspective. It is simply one way in which the AKC can uphold the expected standards for judges of their events. The AKC will always maintain its right to reserve approving judges “in house.” Individual judges should be aware of this policy and contact Lisa directly if they have questions. In light of this situation, earthdog test secretaries need to be reminded that unless a secretary’s report is submitted for the Introduction to Quarry non-regular class to the AKC (no recording fees required) then the judge is not credited with having had the assignment. Judges should periodically check and update inaccurate information posted on the AKC Judges Directory (http://www.akc.org/judges_directory/). Questions or corrections may be submitted to the Judges Operation Department for the appropriate performance event. For field trial and earthdog judges the addresses are listed below. SPRING 2008 7 of 37
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