Congrats to Tally!
Aren't dogs supposed to be suspended from competition for that?
No actually. Attacking a dog is a write-up - and usually an excusal - but its not a DQ or event committee.
Now - attacking or attempting to attack a person - that is grounds for an event committee action or a disqualification if the judge calls it. There's some weirdness that goes on between event committee vs judge. If something happens outside the ring, even if the judge sees it, it's an event committee matter. If it happens IN the judge's ring it's their matter - even if 10,000 people saw it...I've twice seen incidents happen outside the ring that should have been event committee actions (and in one case a judge saw it too) but the person who was either bitten or lunged at didn't want to file a report. I've also seen aggression towards the judge IN the obedience ring that was not written up, even though many people reported the issue to the event committee/show chair...
I guess I'm out of the obedience loop these days - I hadn't heard about an attack -was it down on the cape last weekend? Portland is a bit far for me these days - I like to stay within a 5 hour radius from shows these days...there's no direct route from Burlington to Portland - its actually faster to go all the way down to Manchester via 89 pick up i93, 101 to 95 from here to Portland...
Erica