Mountain slides out, a happy hole dog.
It appears the Earth Work Hunting Program at the United Kennel Club has died on the vine due to lack of interest.
I do not follow the Club scene too much, and apparently this is old news. Rumor has it that no one had applied for any titles in quite a while. Too bad.
It seems only a few years back that I was being told the UKC hunt program was going to take the world by storm and leave the JRTCA a hollow shell devoid of membership and working dogs of any kind. Apparently that did not happen.
In curiosity, I checked out the AKC Parson Russell Association web site, and it does not appear to have been updated in more than three years. There are no recent newsletters, no membership brags, and the "earthwork" page is simply a place-holder that takes you to a form if you want to go ahead and fill that out. No education here, and not much encouragement!
The American Working Terrier Association (which is not a registry) has go-to-ground trials, but that's some distance from real field work, and here too things seem to be moribund to the casual observer. This seems to be a web site presentation failure; if you really want to find out what is going on at AWTA, you have to go to Jo Ann Frier-Murza's site to get a schedule. A hat tip to Jo Ann; few have done more in service to the dogs (and, in case you didn't see the earlier mention on this blog, her excellent book on earthdog trials has been reprinted).
Over at the Jack Russell Terrier Association of America, things seem to be in pretty fine fettle, with massive amounts of information, a national trial scheduled 94 days from today in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and regular shows and trials that are google-mapped for easy locating. In addition, the JRTCA web site sells locator collars and fox nets, and has links to JRT Rescue and JRT health research.
Is there any question as as to why the JRTCA is the backbone of terrier work in the U.S.?
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I do not follow the Club scene too much, and apparently this is old news. Rumor has it that no one had applied for any titles in quite a while. Too bad.
It seems only a few years back that I was being told the UKC hunt program was going to take the world by storm and leave the JRTCA a hollow shell devoid of membership and working dogs of any kind. Apparently that did not happen.
In curiosity, I checked out the AKC Parson Russell Association web site, and it does not appear to have been updated in more than three years. There are no recent newsletters, no membership brags, and the "earthwork" page is simply a place-holder that takes you to a form if you want to go ahead and fill that out. No education here, and not much encouragement!
The American Working Terrier Association (which is not a registry) has go-to-ground trials, but that's some distance from real field work, and here too things seem to be moribund to the casual observer. This seems to be a web site presentation failure; if you really want to find out what is going on at AWTA, you have to go to Jo Ann Frier-Murza's site to get a schedule. A hat tip to Jo Ann; few have done more in service to the dogs (and, in case you didn't see the earlier mention on this blog, her excellent book on earthdog trials has been reprinted).
Over at the Jack Russell Terrier Association of America, things seem to be in pretty fine fettle, with massive amounts of information, a national trial scheduled 94 days from today in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and regular shows and trials that are google-mapped for easy locating. In addition, the JRTCA web site sells locator collars and fox nets, and has links to JRT Rescue and JRT health research.
Is there any question as as to why the JRTCA is the backbone of terrier work in the U.S.?
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