Enterring 2 dogs in same trial

[tabearsr]

I would like to get some opinions on entering 2 of your own dogs in the same trial, you hear a lot of folks saying you are competing against yourself but my opinion is you have 2 different style of dogs and you think they can both compete and place.

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[Jim Parrish]

Of course you're competing against yourself.....in a sense.

If you want to place dogs, take your chances. Sometimes the judges will like "something" you're running. Sometimes not.

Also, if you have to make a long drive, I'd rather enter 2 and take my chances rather than 1, get picked up, then turn around and drive home.

I've seen people enter as many as 4-5. The "shotgun"approach !
JMO

[FB]

I like to have extra bullets.

[Jpoisel]

Hey,

There's nothing fair about trials. Unless you own one dog run what you can afford to enter.

I run in 3 out of the 4 formates, and I run all six of my females if thier ready to go that week.

It's no different then prof. handlers, handling 20 dogs at the trials.

[TDOG]

I only keep males and right now I have 6 and 4 are all age with 2 being derby's and I trial all of them when they are ready, and if I don't think a hound will trial he cant stay at my place I also hunt them as a pack as much as I can during hunting season. Why keep something you can't use?

[Andy Purnell]

Not a much better feeling than having 2-3 dogs in a winners pack that were born and raised at home....

[george pirman]

2 ??? I may enter 14 in the same class. Sometime's the younger judges can stay up closer to them and then I can get a report on which is the better dog. George