FIELD DOG RE

I would copy & paste (NOT cut & paste) dogs who have earned field or working degrees, from their breed stud book into a working or professional stud book.

These are the new merit based books I would open: ("hund" means "dog" which I use because someone might already have that breed or group name)

HUNTING DOGS

Pighunds:

P1) Am. Catchhund - grabs pigs

Varminthunds:

E1) Am. Drawhund - goes to ground and grabs varmints and backs out of the burrow, dragging them out.

E2) Am. Rockyhund - goes to ground and kills varmints below ground (kind of like a trunk fighter) or uses various methods to draw or bolt varmints.

E3) Am. Bolthund - goes to ground and nips, barks at, or otherwise annoys varmints into bolting out of their burrow.

E4) Am. Roadhund - sprints after rats and snaps them up, hunts squirrels ("Road" from "Rodent" because they hunt squirrels and rats). AKA: Dash terriers.

Sprinthunds:

S1) Bunny Sprinthunds - sight hunting sprinters who go after rabbits, often weaving between trees in woodlands.

S2) Hare Sprinthunds - sight hunting sprinters who go after jackrabbits, hare, or small animal.

S3) Gianthunds - boarhunds, staghunds, wolfhunds, roohunds, or other large animal hunds.Houndhunds:

H1) Am. Treehund - using his nose to follow a scent, each dog does his best to be the first dog to get to the varmint. Once there, the dog barks tree. Often hunts raccons.

H2) Am. Buglehund - uses his nose to follow a rabbit's scent. Not in a hurry, will run in a pack, never sight hunts even if the rabbit is right in front of him.

H3) Am. Packhund - uses his nose to follow varmints or predators, each dog stays with the other dogs in a pack to arrive at the quarry at the same time. Used on bear, mountain lion, coyote, boar, or other animals.

H4) Am. Riverhund - used on aquatic animals like otter, beaver, or search for people including dead bodies under water, lost people, or tracking suspects.

Birdhunds:

B1) Am. Curly Waterhund - all the bird dogs with a curly water resistant coat. Allow all three types of bird dogs (Point, Rush, Fetch) into one breed, reflecting the traditional less specialized hunting techniques, and multiple uses, as well as acknowledging the need for a more water resistant coat and the lack of numbers of curly coated bird dogs, who can become founding stock for the Am. Curly Waterhund.

B2) Am. Duckfetch Hund - waits on shore or in a boat or blind, or fetches shot birds, often from water during fall migration.

B3) Am. Rushhund - flushers who walk ahead of the gun but never run out of gun range, then fetch the shot bird.

B4) Am. Pointhund - pointing dogs who point and fetch birds, and sometimes rabbits or other animals.

Lurehunds:

L1) Am. Ducklure Hund - dogs who tease ducks or other birds or small animals into following them or coming over to look at them

.L2) Am. Hooflure Hund - dogs who lure deer, pigs, or other animals into following them back to where the hunter or owner waits.

Huntherd Hunds:

U1) Am. Huntherd hund - any dog which herds or drives wild animals towards the hunter, nets, or traps

.Arctic Hunthunds:

A1) Dogs specialized to hunt in below freezing weather, often to find seal breathing holes.

Wild Hunthunds: Canines that hunt with people, but whose species are feral or wild canines like wolves, dingo, dhole or other canines who hunt naturally without people.

That seems to sum up the hunting dogs.

The idea of internationally bred dogs is that all dogs who merit it, by proving themselves in the field, can enter a new stud book.

Puppies from 2 dogs in the same merit stud book get litter pedigrees in the name of the new stud book, but can NOT enter the stud book themselves until they have a field degree.

For example: puppies from an English setter and an (English) pointer, who both had passed a pointing dog test, could be sold with litter pedigrees as Am. Pointhunds,

but a Brittany with a pointing degree bred with a spaniel with a rushing degree, could not get a litter pedigree for their puppies because the parents are of different professions - one points, the other rushes.

The idea of field stud books is specialization at a task.

Although, a field breeder easily could breed as they always have, say breeding Labrador Retrievers who win at field trails only to other Labrador Retrievers who win at field trials, other field breeders could cross an otterhound with a bloodhound and have the puppies recorded as Am. Riverhunds.

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