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The Board of Directors would like to thank everyone that participated in the first CARO survey!

Additional cues for the down in the Moving Down exercise are scored the same as for all additional cues.

Trial hosts may allow the judge to enter a class they are judging.  The course must be judged by a second qualified CARO judge.  Scores earned in the judge's class will not be for placement ribbons or special awards, but count towards titles being earned. Qualifying scores will receive qualifying ribbons. The class may be run before or at the last reset of the class.  The trial host may decide whether judge's classes runs that result in a new title will receive new title ribbons, if they are available.  The trial host will decide the amount to charge the judge to enter this class.

Clarification to match the information in Appendix J

Page 31 – Exercise #22 – Halt-Side Step Right – Halt

1 to A 2 point deduction shall incur for dogs that do not remain in heel position (parallel to the handler) on the side step.

Effective Immediately: All restrictions regarding ownership of the dog and who may handle the dog in competition have been removed.

The following is for immediate implementation:

Addition:  Upon completion of an exercise, whether successful or not, the owner may choose to briefly pet or touch the dog as a reward.  If the owner touches the dog mid exercise (for example, after the dog completes one cone in Round the Clock), the judge shall  tell the competitor to “move on” to the next attempt at the exercise or to the next exercise after the second attempt, or in Expert.

Physical praise is allowed as the teams move between exercises, for example, in the form of hand targeting.

Touching the dog to put it into a position (Sit, Down, Stand), or guiding the dog between exercises by the collar is considered to be a physical correction and will result in an NQ. This will result in the loss of all Passes already accumulated in the round.

The following is for immediate implementation in the Working Level handbook:

Barrel Racing (all levels):

Thanks very much to Tanya for acting as our election committee and doing a great job of monitoring the election.

Thanks to the hard work of the board of directors and other volunteers, a new Master General Handbook is available for all competitors.  Previously announced changes will continue to be in effect, with other changes, particularly in the Versatility levels come into effect April 1, 2018.

The new publication is located: https://canadianrallyo.ca/m/mpage/showpage/Publication  

Working level will no longer have any pre-requisites.

Effective immediately the judging requirement for judging Novice, Advanced, and Excellent Team has changed to:

A minimum of 10 teams in a minimum of 2 rounds of any combination of Novice, Advanced and Excellent.

Please note the additional clarification within the rule changes to Sign 43:

The team comes to a halt and the dog sits in heel position at the Station sign.

The 5’ line  should be indicated by markers on either side of the path of travel so that it does not interfere with the handler or It may be tape or other markers.

There is currently an upload issue so the publication for Sign 43 in the publications has not been updated to include the 2 items listed. 

As per the July motion that was passed by the board: Versatility Excellent C stream qualifying scores now count towards Gold and Master Supreme titles.

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY:

It will no longer be required for a handler/dog pair to achieve their individual title before entering the team ring at any level.  The rule still stands that the team rounds may not be entered concurrently.  

For example: a handler/dog pair achieve their Novice Team title, they can now go directly into Advanced Team without first achieving their individual Advanced title.  

A handler/dog pair may not enter both Novice Team and Advanced Team at the same trial in hopes that they will acheive their Novice Team title.  The CNT must be achieved prior to entering Advanced, and so forth.

Halt Call Front While Running:

FEO runs are offered at the discretion of the hosting club.  CARO does not collect fees for these runs, and the judge is not required to score the runs.  The club may charge whatever fee they wish.  Clubs may determine the rules for their FEO runs, with the exceptions that: dogs must have a Novice title in order to run off leash in the ring and all dogs must enter and exit the ring on leash and under control.

There are only two ways to apply for a trial date:

Complete the form manually and mail to the Trial Approver with the appropriate payment.
 
Complete the online application form and submit payment through PayPal.

Any applications received in any other manner will be returned (for example - submitting an application manually and paying separately through PayPal).

There has been one reported incident of a dog biting a judge. Effective immediately the following rules comes into effect.

The safety of our judges is paramount and to that end, effective immediately, judges have the right to refuse to examine a dog if the judge feels uncomfortable doing the examination.

A new form has been uploaded to the web site which MUST be completed and sent with the trial results to the CARO office whether or not any incident has occured at a trial. Trial secretaries will be advised of the form.

Effective immediately the rules for Shadow Judging for the Versatility levels are changed to:

Must shadow judge under an approved CARO judge for four (4) courses from the Versatility and/or Versatility Excellent and/or Versatility Team to a total of 10 dogs.

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Allotted time for Novice is 5 minutes all other levels have 4 minutes.

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