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General regulations
The minimum admissible age is 18 months.
The skills that are tested on the Communication and Carrying of Light Loads Work Course:
- the degree of dog. s training to a pack of load;
- communication between two block-stations, searching of a transfered block-station and running speed (checked in a complex);
- attitude to shooting.
Description of a skill execution
The degree of dog's training to a pack of load The commands Ho!, Heel!
By judge's command a trainer puts a pack of load on dog. s back and goes together with a dog (a dog is without a lead) along the square. The weight of a pack must be of 20% of dog's weight. The compacted bags filled with the sand or fine gravel may be used as the weight, the bags must be put evenly from each side of a pack. A dog should be quiet when putting on a pack and move near a trainer in accordance with the item Dog's movement near a trainer. of the General Training Course.
The skill is considered as failed, if a dog refuses to move with a pack.
Communication between two block-stations, searching of a transfered block-station and running speed The command Station! and a directing gesture. On trainer's discretion the command and a gesture are given out of the stand-position or kneel -position. Two trainers with a dog set communication between two disguised block-stations that are situated at 500 m-distance from each other. A judge throws 4-5 pieces of food along the communication line. A dog should run from one block-station to another in 3 minutes.
The trial order:
- first both trainers and a dog are at 1-block-station. Then, by judge. s command, one of the trainers and a dog on a lead, but without a pack go along the determined route accompanied by a judge; they lay the communication line to 2-block-station. When they reach 2-block-station, a trainer make a dog lie down, then in 10 minutes he puts a pack with load on dog. s back, puts a note where the start time is indicated into a collar pocket and sends a dog to 1-block-station by the command Station! (the first run).
By this command a judge who is at .! 2-block-station, starts the stop-watch and doesn. t turn it off until the trials are over. After that a trainer, by judge. s instruction, marks the starting point of a track and lays it in the straight direction along 200 m-distance towards the determined disguised place (the transfered block-station).
- In 5 minutes after dog. s coming to .! 1-block-station a trainer sends a dog to .! 2-block-station (the second run), marks the starting point of a track and goes straight at 200 m-distance (the transfered block-station);
- when a dog comes to 2-block-station, it should find a track and a moved trainer.
- In 5 minutes after dog. s coming a trainer sends a dog to 1-block-station again (the third run).
- A judge, who is at 2-block-station, marks the overall speed of three runs by means of the stop-watch, when a dog lies down near a trainer after the third run. The staying-power time (10 minutes + 5 minutes + 5 minutes) is deducted out of total time of three runs. Special signals are given for a judge to turn the stop-watch off in time. A dog must run with equal speed from one station to another without stopping, distraction and taking the thrown food. A dog should lie down near a sitting trainer when comes to the station.
When the station is transfered, a dog must find a trainer. s track,and following it reach the transfered station.
The skill is considered as failed, if a dog eats the food thrown along the route, or if it doesn. t find the station or comes back to the station it was sent from.
Attitude to shooting The skill is checked when the third run (from 2-block-station to 1-block-station).
A judge hides in the middle of the running distance (at 15 m-distance from the communication line), let a dog pass by him and shoots out of the starting pistol. A dog must ignore the shot and go on moving.
The skill is considered as failed, if a dog demonstrates fear of shooting, or runs away from the running distance or comes back to the station it was sent from.
Tables of mark rating of dog work testing on the Communication and Carrying of Light Loads Work Course
Table of minimum marks. The highest rating is 100 marks.
| Skill |
The highest rating |
Dog work rating |
| 1-degree Diploma |
2-degree Diploma |
3-degree Diploma |
| The degree of dog's training to a pack of load |
20 |
18 |
16 |
12 |
| Communication between the block-stations |
20 |
18 |
16 |
12 |
| Running speed |
20 |
18 |
16 |
12 |
| Track work when transferring the station |
20 |
18 |
16 |
12 |
| Attitude to shooting |
20 |
18 |
16 |
12 |
Table of penalty marks
| Violation |
Penalty marks |
| Assessment of trainer's work. The highest rating - 100 marks |
| 1 |
False coming up and indistinct report to a judge |
2 |
| 2 |
Lax control and unskilled influence upon a dog |
3 |
| 3 |
Inopportune commands, gestures, intonation |
1 |
| 4 |
Unskilled usage of force and encouragement |
2 |
| 5 |
Unskilled preparation of a pack, its putting on and load arrangement in a pack |
3 |
| 6 |
Calling up of a come dog |
5 |
| 7 |
Violation of a disguise at the principal stations and at the transfered ones |
3 |
| 8 |
Rude treatment to a dog |
disqualified |
| 9 |
Violation of judge. s instructions, tactless behaviour |
disqualified |
| Note: a trainer gets the penalty marks for every mistake when carrying out every skill. |
| Dog work rating - 100 marks |
| The degree of dog's training to a pack of load - 20 marks |
| 1 |
Every frequent command, gesture |
1 |
| 2 |
Resistance when ptting on a pack |
3 |
| 3 |
Going ahead or stopping when moving with a pack on near a trainer |
2 |
| 4 |
An attempt to take a pack away |
1 |
| 5 |
Failure of a skill |
20 |
| Communication between the block-stations with a pack on -20 marks. |
| 1 |
Every frequent command when sending a dog to carry out a skill |
1 |
| 2 |
Calling up of a come dog |
3 |
| 3 |
Frequent sending of a come back dog |
4 |
| 4 |
Distraction to the thrown food |
5 |
| 5 |
Failure of a skill |
20 |
| Running speed - 20 marks |
| 1 |
Every frequent command |
1 |
| 2 |
Slow moving away from a trainer |
2 |
| 3 |
Slow running |
2 |
| For every extra minute: |
| 4 |
Distraction of a dog when going along the running distance |
3 |
| 5 |
A dog stops when going along the running distance |
5 |
| 6 |
Failure of a skill |
20 |
| Track work when transferring the station - 20 marks |
| 1 |
Slow finding of a track |
2 |
| 2 |
Lax and hesitating track work |
4 |
| 3 |
Loses a track, but then finds the station |
6 |
| 4 |
Failure of a skill |
20 |
| Attitude to shooting - 20 marks |
| 1 |
Stops after a shot, but then goes on moving |
1 |
| 2 |
Stops and barks at a shooting person or at the strangers |
4 |
| 3 |
Failure of a skill |
20 |
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