Text 42362, 71 rader
Skriven 2006-11-08 11:45:52 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 42086 av shannon talley (1:275/311)
Ärende: Whippets 
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31 Oct 06 06:59, shannon talley wrote to Roy Witt:

 st> Howdy,

 >> Let me know, I'd be happy to help out.

 st> We did pretty good this weekend.  One of my dogs placed, which is
 st> great because now she begins a point accumulation for her Lure
 st> Coursing Master.

That's great. Nancy and I have been on the road to the ole homestead in
Illinois. We made the trip especially for a visit with my mother on her
87th birthday. While there, we also visited with my sister and bil. They
have a great place closer to the Wisconsin border, horses, dogs and a few
fields with pheasant in them. Didn't get to the fields, but my bil was out
hunting most of the day while we were there. He didn't take his dogs, so
he and the group he was with got skunked. :o)

 st> I've updated the site with a race video.  Although, I can convert my
 st> Mpg's to flash, I can't seem to get the flash encoder to put in the
 st> controls for the video.  I indicated as much as it encoded but they
 st> don't appear on the webpage.  I've never really used flash before,
 st> but it came with Dreamweaver which I had to purchase for a class I
 st> had last semester. It does nice video, and I don't have to worry
 st> about a streaming server or version issues associated with Microflop
 st> Media Player.

Hmmmm. Sounds pretty good. I haven't been there yet, but I'll make a point
of looking it over again.

 st> As you watch the video, it's interesting to note that the course is
 st> about 700yds long and there are more than 4 sharp turns.  The dogs
 st> are each scored on 6 different criteria which include agility, speed,
 st> enthusiasm, follow, among others.  So it's not necessarily the dog
 st> who comes in 'first', but rather the dog that fills the score card
 st> with the criteria. There is a dog in blue who seems to do pretty
 st> well, but the 2d video doesn't properly display the fact he had cut
 st> corners and attempted to out-think the lure which is bad for scoring
 st> -- and he out thought it so much that he put him behind at the end.

That's odd. I would think that any dog who can think far enough ahead to
actually cut corners to catch the lure would be given more points. He's an
independant thinker...

 st> It's a sport.... The dogs are the athletes, the rule book is the
 st> center of arguments, and then there are the judges, the governing
 st> body (albeit ASFA or AKC), the spectators, and the owners... It's
 st> like any "sport" -- just like any other, and it's fun.  The dogs
 st> don't care nor know if they win or loose at the end of the day.

I think that's right. In the real world, dogs have 'pecking' orders among
the pack leaders, but competition with any of them is fair play to them.
In my experience, they're always happy to even be there.

 st> Tell me what ya think (it's my daughter on the front with Validus,
 st> our new puppy).

 st> http://www.wackerwhippets.com

I like it! Some mispelled words, but the site is very nice. Perhaps a
cover for the microphone on your next outing to stop or at least curb most
of the noise caused by the wind...


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