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Re(2): Club & Dog Insurance?
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Posted on June 5, 2009 at 09:46:48 AM by DebbieSkinner
I think liability insurance at a discounted rate is something national ring organizations could offer that would encourage the formation of clubs and it may encourage property owners to allow the use of their property for training. Additionally if it was possible for clubs to have insurance that covered our sport dogs, this would be a dream come true. Fixing a k9 is about the same price as traveling to France or other vacation.
Liability insurance is something most of us must be concerned with as most of us train on private property and there is risk for the property owner as well as everyone participating.
It goes without saying that a national organization needs to first and foremost provide support, education and seminar opportunities especially in French Ring where there is so little information out there in English for those wanted to get started. I can check with Dupots (owners of Sans Laisse, French Working Dog Magazine) as years ago they offered vhs tapes, but now I guess it would be DVDs if they still have them showing the different levels of FR. I'll ask if there are training clips or educational DVDs available. With DVDs you don't have to pay to get them transfered from Pal to view them. You can view them on any computer. I know Dupots through Beaucerons.
Spending time and resources on politics has never helped French Ring. When I joined NARA in the early 1990s there were around around 360 members and Cheryl Carlson and JM Moreau would travel to different clubs giving seminars. Presently there is better training and more knowledge in the USA, than there was back then, but less active ringers. Why?
I posed the same insurance question on the Working Dog Forum and thank you Richard Rutt for answering and providing information on the French insurance on dogs. My dog "Dexter" goes to fix his broken canine this week. Here is the link about French dog insurance:
http://www.workingdogforum.com/vBulletin/f17/ring-dog-sports-club-insurance-dog-insurance-11203/
I know if you look to the model of the NVBK of how they developed some of the top working dogs in the world vs how Germany and other FCI countries regulate their working breeds, you will see that "less regulation is more" to allow for the best animals to be developed. They do not exclude animals on their looks or origins (no breed standards, no breed surveys, etc.) and good dogs can compete w/o peds, etc. They offer trials and with this less regulated system they have been quite successful in developing great working dogs. I don't know if this applies to working dog organizations, but I think a thing or 2 can be learned from this model. Another model is the Quarter Horse and it's development..if it runs fast they want it in their gene pool. Through competition and less regulation they developed the fastest land animal on the face of the earth in a 1/4 mile!
But, this could not of been accomplished w/o open competition. You didn't have to belong to a certain group to compete. It was about the animal not personalities.
Les Ombres Valeureux
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