Mustad
Thanks for the explaination of the Test

I think decent PLs could do well in it, EXCEPT most of us wouldn't like the "Duck Search". Most of us retriever guys want to get our dog to the bird and get it back in hand / in the bag.

From another forum : "The problem from my perspective is that it is not a blind or a mark. You get a higher score the longer your dog is searching. They care more about diligence than actually finding the bird. I believe you will see that on marks and upland. Me I want the bird located a s soon as possible and bring it back to dad. If the dog brings back quickly in NAVDHA they will have you do it again. You are actually penalized in a sense for a dog that locates quickly.

I'm not going to train my dogs to wander around until they find something. I want to give them a line and then let them work it out. They also do two single marks for the UT test. So the dogs see trailing on land and water, upland, retrieving, marks. PL's would do well in their tests. They won't let us play though. Too bad. My opinion is that a good dog is a good dog. Virtually any dog out there can play the AKC, NARHA and HRC games. Not so with NAVDHA. That's OK becuase they would see us at their competitive hunts going home with ribbons".



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