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The minimum admissible age is 18 months
General regulations The skills that are tested on the Search Work Course:
- choosing a strange object;
- choosing a person;
- track work;
- searching of the locality;
- detention, protection of a trainer and attitude to shooting (checked in a complex).
Description of a skill execution
Choosing a strange object. The skill is checked in accordance with the item and mark table of the Protection-and-Guard Work Course of the present Rules.
Choosing a person
The commands Smell! and Search!
A dog chooses a person out of four assistants, it carries out the skill in a muzzle and without a lead. 15-20 minutes before choosing all the assistants put the alike things (handkerchieves) that must be clean and made of the soft material, into the cellophane bags. The rolled-up papers with assistants. names or numbers on them are put there also. The bags are tied up with the alike tape and intermingled. By judge. s instruction a trainer makes a dog sit down at 3-4 m-distance from the assistants, takes one of the bags, undoes it, takes a handkerchief out of it and gives it to a dog to smell, then sends a dog for choosing (it is allowed to send a dog at a lead); a trainer stays at his place and controls a dog watching its behaviuor. A dog should quietly smell the assistants and choose the owner of the handkerchief at the first attempt barking at him, or by other means ( by sitting, laying and so on) indicatig him. A trainer raises his hand, when a dog identifies the owner. A judge marks that the choosing is over and takes the paper with the name of the owner a dog chose out of the bag, then he checks whether a dog made the right choice. Three attempts are allowed, one and the same thing for smelling is used. Dog. s movement four times (two times from the left to the right, and two times from the right to the left) before the assistants is considered as one attempt, and dog. s work during two minutes as well. The skill is considered as failed, if a dog doesn. t choose an assistant after the third attempt, or if a trainer helps a dog to choose.
Track work
The commands Smell!, Track!, Search!, Track!
A track is laid on the even surface, apart from the crowded places. The track length is 500 m. 30 minutes after a track was laid, a dog is put in a track work.
By head judge. s instruction a person, who is in charge of laying a track, marks the track starting point and begin to lay a track. A track should have two obtuse angles in every 150 m, and an acute one in the next 100 m (see the scheme). Three objects suitable for a dog to fetch are put and disguised along a track line. The fourth object (a pennant) is put on the final point, or an assistant disguises there. The places to put the objects are determined by a judge, the objects are put at the same distance from each other for all dogs. All the objects must have an ordinal number. A trainer and a dog on a lead (the length of a lead is 10 m) come up to an object, a trainer, by judge. s command, gives an object to a dog to smell (the command Smell!) and puts it in a track work (the commands Smell!, Track!).
It is allowed to send a dog three times from the track starting point. If a dog loses a track and can not find it again, a trainer may help a dog to find a track. If a trainer unable to do it, a judge helps him. A dog should find out the objects, a pennant or an assistant when working on a track. The skill is considered as failed, if a dog doesn't find a track after the third attempt, can not find out a pennant or an assistant, or three objects.
Searching of the locality
The commands Search!, Give!, a gesture showing the direction of the search.
The skill is carried out against the wind on the broken ground that is suitable for disguising the objects and a person. The territory for searching is of 60 E. 70 m-size. An assistant comes up to the searching ground from one of the angles, puts and disguises three unknown and suitable for a dog to fetch objects. The objects are put at 15-20 m-distance from each other (approximately on the tops of the zigzags),. Then an assistant hides at 25 m-distance from the last object. A trainer sends a dog to search the locality by the command . Search!. . A dog must search a place quickly by the zigzag trajectory, the spaces between the parallels should be of equal length. The turns at the side borders of the sector should be directed forward along the route of the movement.
A trainer may call up a dog to carry out the turns at the side borders of the sector and give it the command Search! and a gesture showing the new direction. A trainer moves along the mid line of the searched place with the deviations not more than 10 m in every direction. A dog must fetch an object to a trainer without a command and then by the command Give! give an object to a trainer. Then by the command Search!. a trainer sends a dog to search again. A dog should bark at an assistant or keep him until a trainer comes up and calls up a dog.
The skill is considered as failed, if a dog searches more than 10 minutes.
Protection of a trainer, detention of an infringer and attitude to shooting. Maximum number of marks is 20.
A trainer begins an exercise being at 15 m-distance from a shelter. He gives a dog the commmand . Heel!. and moves near a dog towards a shelter. Then he stops at 1,5-2 m-distance from a shelter, and when a dog sits down, and suggests assistant. s coming out of a shelter.
An assistant stops at 3-4 m-distance from a shelter and turns to a trainer. A trainer gives a dog the commands . Sit!. and . Guard!. , searches an assistant and hides in a shelter (the shelter construction must be suitable for a trainer to watch a dog).
A dog should watch an assistant without distraction.When a trainer is in a shelter, an assistant, by judge. s instruction, takes an atttempt to run away. A dog must prevent him from doing it and keep an assistant by a tight grip without a command of a trainer. In the moment of a grip a judge shoots out of a starting pistol. After a shot a trainer, by judge. s instruction, leaves a shelter. An assistant stops. After it a dog, by the command . Out!. or without it, must let an assistant go. Then an assistant, by judge. s instruction, attacks a dog without beating it. A dog must come to a rear-attack and prevent further assistant. s resistance without trainer. s command. If dog. s grip is too tight, a trainer should beat it twice on the hips, withers, or on flanks. A dog shouldn. t leave an assistant and let him go. By judge. s instruction an assistant stops to resist. A dog must let him go by the first command . Out!. or without it, and guard him. Only by judge. s instruction a giude comes up to a dog and gives it the command . Sit!. . An assistant is allowed to hold a riding-crop for beating, but in such a way that a dog cann. t see it. Then a dog should escort an assistant from his back at 20 m-distance. A trainer gives an assistant a command to move forward, and follows him together with a dog at 3 paces-distance. The attacking of a trainer by an assistant follows the escorting. A dog must prevent this attack by a tight grip without any ifluence of a trainer. By judge. s instruction an assistant stops to resist. A dog must let him be free and guard him. The single command . Out!" is allowed. By judge. s instruction a trainer and dog go to an indicated place. Then a trainer stops and a dog sits down near him. By judge. s instruction an assistant goes out of a shelter with a riding-crop in his hand and runs towards a dog. When an assistant is at 20 m-distance from a trainer, by judge. s instruction, gives the command . Go!. to a dog that is sitting at trainer. s leg. A trainer can not leave his place and encourage a dog. An assistant attacks a dog directly uttering banishing sounds and making sharp threatening movements. A dog must immediately make a tight grip of an assistant. If a dog acts like this, it is beaten two times on hips, flanks or on withers. By judge. s instruction an assistant stops. A dog must let him be free by the first command or without it, and guard him. By judge. s instruction a trainer goes towards a dog, takes a riding-crop away from an assistant and get ready for the side escorting.Then the side escorting of an assistant to a judge at 10 m-distance follows it. A voice command is allowed at the beginning of movement. A trainer must go at the right side of an assistant to let a dog move between them. During the escorting a dog must be on alert, but not demonstrate unprovoked aggressiveness. The group stops before a judge and a trainer passes a riding-crop to a judge. An assistant and a trainer with a dog leave a ring ground.
Uncontrolled dogs which stop a grip after the force influence of a trainer, or don. t demonstrate a grip within 5 minutes after the given command, or demonstrate fear of beating and threatening movements towards them, or refuse fighting with an assistant and let him push them aside during the protection testing, can not pass the testing. If a dog refuses to execute one of the skills (except running away), the further protection testing stops. If a dog watches an assistant carefully and runs around him, the penalty is discounted. Too aggressive dogs or dogs which demonstrate fear are disqualified.
| NN |
Skill |
The highest rating |
Dog work rating |
| 1-degree Diploma |
2-degree Diploma |
3-degree Diploma |
| 1 |
Choosing a strange object |
20 |
18 |
16 |
12 |
| 2 |
Choosing a person |
20 |
18 |
16 |
12 |
| 3 |
Track work |
20 |
18 |
16 |
12 |
| 4 |
Searching of the locality |
20 |
18 |
16 |
12 |
| 5 |
Detention, protecton of a trainer and attitude to shooting |
20 |
18 |
16 |
12 |
| NN |
Violation |
Number of taken away marks |
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Assessment of trainer. s work. The highest rating is 100 marks |
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| 1 |
False coming up and indistinct report to a judge |
2 |
| 2 |
Mispresentation of a command and a gesture |
2 |
| 3 |
Lax control |
3 |
| 4 |
An inopportune command, a gesture |
1 |
| 5 |
Absence of necessary influence upon a dog, inopportune
encouragement |
1 |
| 6 |
Unnecessary influence |
1 |
| 7 |
Unskilled influence upon a dog |
2 |
| 8 |
Lax contact of a trainer and a dog |
5 |
| 9 |
Violation of judge. s instructions |
5 |
| 10 |
Unskilled presentation of smelling when choosing and at the
beginning of the track work |
3 |
| 11 |
Tactless behaviuor towards the members of a judicial brigade |
disqualified |
| 12 |
Rude treatment to a dog |
disqualified |
| Note: a trainer gets the penalty marks for every
mistake when carrying out every skill. |
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Choosinng a strange object - 20 marks |
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| 1 |
Every frequent command, gesture |
1 |
| 2 |
Additional influence |
1 |
| 3 |
Throws the objects about, sorts them out, but then chooses the
proper one |
2 |
| 4 |
Shows the chosen object definitely, but doesn. t fetch it |
2 |
| 5 |
Second attempt |
4 |
| 6 |
Other violations that don. t cause mispresentation of a skill |
0,5 - 1 |
| 7 |
Failure of a skill |
20 |
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Choosing a person - 20 marks |
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| 1 |
Uninterested choosing |
1 |
| 2 |
Every frequent command, gesture |
1 |
| 3 |
Inconsequent (disoderly) smelling of the assistants |
1 |
| 4 |
Excessive aggressiveness |
3 |
| 5 |
Second attempt |
3 |
| 6 |
Choosing on a lead |
4 |
| 7 |
Third attempt |
5 |
| 8 |
Failure of a skill |
20 |
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Track work - 20 marks |
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| 1 |
Cann. t find out a track |
2 |
| 2 |
Prolonged distraction |
2 |
| 3 |
A dog loses a track, but finds it out with judge. s help |
3 |
| 4 |
Every unfound object (out of the three) |
3 |
| 5 |
Second judge's help |
5 |
| 6 |
Failure of a skill |
20 |
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Searching of the locallity - 20 marks |
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| 1 |
Every frequent command that doesn. t cause change of the
direction |
1 |
| 2 |
Uninterested search |
1 |
| 3 |
Doesn. t bark at an assistant |
2 |
| 4 |
Every found, but non-fetched object |
2 |
| 5 |
Every unfound object |
4 |
| 6 |
Unfound layer of a track |
8 |
| 7 |
Failure of a skill |
20 |
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Detention, protecton of a trainer and attitude to shooting - 20
marks |
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| 1 |
Every frequent command |
1 |
| 2 |
Every stoppage of staying-power |
2 |
| 3 |
Every force influence (except stoppage of a bite work) |
2 |
| 4 |
A dog stops when pursuing an infringer , but catches hold
of him then |
3 |
| 5 |
A dog makes several grips at the hand with equal activity |
1 |
| 6 |
A weak, inactive grip |
2 - 8 |
| 7 |
Other violations that don't cause mispresentation of a skill |
0,5 - 1 |
| 8 |
Failure of a skill 2 |
20 |
The approximate route scheme of dog testing on the Search Work
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