From: liza@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Liza Miller)
Subject: NAHRA Changes for 1993
Followup-To: rec.pets.dogs
Organization: Stanford Univ. Earth Sciences
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:50:54 GMT

I don't know how interesting this will be for the rest of
you.  I just got my new NAHRA newsletter and wanted to share
the updates with ya'll.  We've talked about NAHRA in the past.

A brief rehash for the unfamiliar. NAHRA is the North American
Hunting Retriever Association.  It is a group dedicated to
perserving hunting abilities in dogs in a non-competitive 
arena.  They hold hunting tests and offer titles.  They are
a young organization and are still working out the "bugs" in
their programs.  Hence, their rules do seem to change each 
year.

NAHRA offers the following tests:

Beginners
Started
Intermediate
Senior

and the following titles which equate with the above tests:

Beginning Certificate (not a title)
Started Certificate (not a title)
Working Retriever - WR (appears before the dog's name)
Master Hunting Retriever - MHR (appears before the dog's name)
Grand Master Hunting Retriever - GMHR (appears before the dog's name)

The new rules for 1993 are as follows:

The Beginning stake will be run under Started rules and must be run twice
for certification.

Previous Started points will be grandfathered and count towards the
beginner's certificate.

(I take the above to mean that NAHRA will no longer offer a separate test
for Beginner's.  I am disappointed, but understand.  The Beginner's test
was very, very easy, but was great for running puppies for the first time.)

Started will now have a title associated with it.  A dog must qualify four
times to be awarded an SR (Started Retriever).  He must be steady and
deliver to hand.

Intermediate dogs must qualify four times (SR's only need to qualify three
times) to get their WR (Working Retriever).  A land blind will be added to
the test.

Senior will remain the same and will earn an MHR (Master Hunting
Retriever).  They must qualify five times (WR's only need to qualify four
times).

GMHR (Grand Master Hunting Retriever) will remain the same, requiring
fifteen Senior qualifications.

A new recognition, The 1,000 Club, will recognize all dogs with 1,000
lifetime Senior points.  The dogs' photos and short bios will appear in
NAHRA News.

NAHRA now has a dual achievement certificate program which recognizes dogs
with AKC/CKC CH titles and WR titles (I don't know if the SR title will
qualify for this program).  The first dog to achieve this honor is:  
WR-CH Beau's Spirit of Autumn, an American Water Spaniel.

NAHRA is now offering a pedigree service.  The pedigrees will list NAHRA,
AKC, and CKC titles as of 1/92.  Order from Angell Pedigrees
(1-800-468-0882).

In 1993, NAHRA will produce a Stud Book.

That last one triggered my curiosity, so I surveyed the studs currently
advertised in the NAHRA News.  They are as follows:

GMHR-WR Sunnyview's Black Gold Strike, MH
FC-AFC Snake Eyes Double Or Nothin' X Sunnyview's Nice And Easy
OFA Good/Cerf
90 lbs
Black
-----
FC-CAFC Westwind's Bold Tiger
FC-AFC-CFC Trieven Thunderhead X Dales Double Hope
Black (YC)
OFA, Eyes clear
-----
GMHR-WR Southland Repeat Performance
NAFC-FC Trumarc's Zip Code X GMHR Trieven Thunder Annie
OFA/Eyes clear
Black
-----
GMHR Sunnyview's Royal Coachman, MH
OFA Good, CERF
Y(C) -- the ad says he throws yellow, black, and chocolate
95 lbs
-----
GMHR Sunnyviews King of Spakes
NFC-AFC San Joaquin Honcho X Sunnyview's Doober's Dandy 
OFA Excellent, CERF
105 lbs
Black
-----
GMHR The Centaur Chiron
FC Meuller's Stormy Canada X Triven Gambol
OFA/CERF
Chocolate
-----
GMHR-WR Southland Gold Dust
AFC Yello Sprig X Southland Blackberry Jam
OFA Good/Eyes clear
Yellow
95 lbs
-----
GMHR-WR Riptide Tule MH
Riptide Special X Bunny's Gottawin
OFA Good, CERF
90 lbs
Black
-----

These are just for information.  The ads really seemed proud of the fact
that their dogs were over 90 lbs.  I was glad to see that the one that is
105 lbs is OFA Excellent.  With a dog that big, I'd be very worried about
joints.

For those of you who don't understand my comments on the dog that is yellow
but throws black and chocolate.  I'll be brief. Yellow in Labradors is
recessive to Black.  Therefore a yellow dog carries *only* the genes to
produce yellows and can't throw black offspring, unless bred to a black
bitch.  The claim that the dog throws blacks is merely showing that the
owner is ignorant or the litter in question was sired by another dog! :)
Yellows can sire chocolates, but this is not desirable as they will tend to
have very light, unattractive pigmentation.  Chocolates are best sired by
other chocolates with nice dark pigmentation or by blacks.  For the same
reasons, you wouldn't want a yellow with chocolate parents.  The
pigmentation would be incorrect.

Anyway, I hope this was interesting to some of you.  If not, just ignore it
and it will go away! :)


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