Bobby Vest wrote:I don't really believe you have to be in the click in the AKC to place high or win. I have been an ARHA guy mostly for years. I have placed 2nd at an AKC trial last fall, my dog wasn't a frontrunner, I am not a club member and I haven't ran an AKC trial in probably a year. I don't run dogs with a bunch of the AKC guys and sure don't do any politicking to place a dog. A few of my dogs are too loose to run AKC and I try not to enter them. In all the AKC trials I have been in I have consistently placed dogs. I am getting older and can't judge a dog the way they deserve to be judged because I just can't stay on top of them, so they don't have anything to fear there. I'm sure there are judges in the AKC that shouldn't be but what organization doesn't have some like that. I like the AKC and the ARHA and i am glad we have both available.
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I have been to several Mid-west trials and didn't do any good so I would say I was cheated haha jk.......I run red dogs and was told they don't do well in Mid West and so far its not a lie, mine hasn't lol ....With that being said I have been to several and I still don't see why everyone keeps talking about fast clean running dogs because I see a lot of fast dogs but they aren't clean in my book, but everyone has different definitions of clean.
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look guys, some of you are taking this way to personal. it's not like im running your best dogs down, or the mid-west. i just gave my opinion on something i have seen in the last couple of years. thats it, JMO I LIKE THE MID-WEST OKAY.
I remember standing outside Great Miami Beagle Club talking to a happy beagler who had just finished a field champion. All his friends told him he was not in the click and wouldn't ever be able to finish a dog in akc. That dog was Buckeye Ninja Blue Boy. So if you have a good dog run it and have fun!
