KENAI · the test and title reference
Hunt tests and titles.
16 levels across 4 organizations, each one taken from the current rulebook and nothing else: what is judged, how it is scored, what the dog has to do. Pick your organization.
NAVHDA
North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association. Versatile hunting dogs: pointing, retrieving, tracking, water.
Natural Ability · NAMeasures seven inherited abilities in the young dog, the impartial early read on what the pup was born with.Utility Preparatory Test · UPTThe midway checkpoint between NA and UT, measures progress toward the finished Utility dog with the same judging standards at less stringent performance limits..Utility Test · UTThe finished versatile gun dog, proven: steady on land and water, reliable in the duck search, obedient throughout.Invitational · VCNAVHDA's flagship.AKC Pointing
AKC Pointing Breed Hunting Tests. Pointing breeds: the find, the point, the handle.
Junior Hunter · JHThe entry title, a dog that hunts, finds birds, points, and takes direction.Senior Hunter · SHThe broke-dog standard: steady to wing, must retrieve, expected to honor a bracemate's point (verbal command permitted) and stop on a wild flush..Master Hunter · MHThe finished pointing dog, judged to the highest hunting-test standard.Master Hunter Excellent · MHXThe ceiling of the pointing-test game, a two-series test where excellence, not adequacy, is the pass bar..AKC Retriever
AKC Retriever Hunting Tests. Retrievers: marks, blinds, steadiness, the water.
Junior Hunter · JHSingles-level marking on land and water, the young retriever proving desire, nose, and delivery..Senior Hunter · SHDoubles and blind retrieves, the handling dog.Master Hunter · MHThe finished retriever: multiple marks, cold blinds, honoring, judged to the standard of a true shooting-dog partner..HRC/UKC
Hunting Retriever Club (UKC). Retrievers: marks, blinds, steadiness, the water.
Started Hunting Retriever · SHRThe first rung, single marks on land and water in a real hunting format, gun in hand.Hunting Retriever · HRThe working-dog title, earned on points across Started, Seasoned, and Finished hunts..Hunting Retriever Champion · HRCHThe champion standard of the HRC game, the majority of it earned at the demanding Finished level..Grand Hunting Retriever Champion · GRHRCHThe Grand, HRC's highest water title, earned at invitational Grand hunts against the sternest standard in the program..Upland Hunter · UHThe upland side of the retriever game, quartering, flushing, and retrieving upland birds under the gun..Your dog, against the standard.
The KENAI app keeps every training day and reads it against the level you are working toward: which subjects are covered, which are thin. A read, never a prediction.
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