I was at the JRTCA Nationals trial for a few hours yesterday.
Back in the day, when I did Go To Ground at the AKC and AWTA trials, rats didn’t have welded safety cages that look like they could survive Shark Week. We made cages out of folded fox wire and hog wire ring clips. Occasionally a dog would grab a cage and a rat would escape. Somewhere out there is a picture of me holding a massive Border Terrier by his tail with a tailed rat in the other; me doing the iron cross where the rat steward was particularly incompetent. No animals were harmed in the making of this movie.
Things run a bit smoother today, as the equipment is better and the people tend to have actually done their job a few times before.
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| Electronic timers have replaced wrist watches at Go To Ground. |
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