258 TRAINING THE HUNTING DOG 



should attend strictly to his own affairs. Any at- 

 tempt to supervise or dictate to the opposing handler 

 is impertinent and useless. Any captiousness or in- 

 subordination in respect to the judges militates 

 against the handler's success. If one handler obeys 

 the "judges' instructions and the other does not, the 

 judges will possibly after a while leave the disobedi- 

 ent handler to go where he pleases and do as he 

 likes, the disobedience and refusal to follow the in- 

 structions justly being considered as inability to do 

 so. 



The judges will always give a respectful hearing 

 to any complaints of interference made by a handler, 

 if they are not frivolous or prejudiced in their ori- 

 gin. However, it is much better to go through the 

 competition looking out for the best interests of the 

 dogs in charge rather than to engage in looking for 

 trouble. 



Some handlers school their dogs to disregard the 

 whistle, or to go out the faster when they hear it, 

 and this to guard against their being called in or 

 turned at improper junctures by the \vhistling of the 

 opposing handler. , 



There are but few handlers who do not whistle 



