08 Upcoming new things in AKC Obedience
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This article is from the Obedience Trials, by Cindy Tittle Moore with numerous contributions by others.
08 Upcoming new things in AKC Obedience
From "Nola Ventura"
Subject Multiple Surface Tracking
I got this flyer from the WSOTC in Washington. The name has been
changed again - originally it was like Variable ST but AKC changed it
and who knows may still. This was sent to me earlier in the month. So
they still had the idea of calling it VST.
"The AKC Obedience Department is working to develop a new tracking
event: 'Variable Surface Tracking'. The event can take place in a
city, or parking lots, and in light industrial grounds. The track will
be on grass areas about 50% of the time and on non-vegetated areas 50%
of the time. Non-vegetated areas can include cement, asphalt and
gravel surfaces such as driveways and parking lots. The track will be
600-800 yards, be 1-3 hours old, have 3-4 turns and 4 articles. The
track will not have intentional cross-tracks, but natural cross
traffic will be considered a part of the normal track.
Workshops are being held around the country to introduce this new
event to the fancy and develop the rules do that it will become a
practical and popular event once it is approved by the AKC Board of
Directors. Attendance at one of these workshops is one requirement for
grandfathering TDX judges to judge this event.
John Barnard, the head of AKC tracking, is a nationally recognized
expert on tracking and scent work. He spent three decades with the
Baltimore Police Department K-9 unit. During that time, he trained
other law enforcement and national security officials in the
intricacies of canine scent work and assisted several scientific
studies concerning the use of dogs' olfactory senses."
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