ENTRY FORM FOR BEECHTON:

Entry Requirements and Eligibility

The minimum age to enter a dog is 4 months. 

Packs will not be separated by height/size, or by sex, except to accommodate a bitch in season.

Intact, spayed or neutered beagles are eligible to enter and earn titles in a hunting performance test.

Bitches in season may run in the test.  Owners are expected to notify the event committee prior to roll call so that a bitch in season can be packed only with other bitches. If possible, bitches in season should run at the end of the day; if multiple tests are offered in a single day a bitch in season may run all tests at the end of the day; ie, a bitch in season may run as a test #1 candidate after judging of test #2, and then run again for test #2.  Dogs entered in different tests may be packed together at a given level to accommodate a bitch in season; for example a bitch in season may be running for test #1 but be packed with another female running for test #2.  Handlers of dogs packed with bitches in season must be notified in the staging area – preferably as early as possible – and are not required to accept the pack assignment.  If needed, experienced female dogs may be used to fill a pack to accommodate a bitch in season,.  

Determining if a bitch is in season should always err on the side of caution as dogs will be off-leash and may be out of sight of the handlers and judges during the test.  A handler may declare a bitch in season if they believe she is close to being in season or recently came out of season.  The event committee may also require a bitch to be run as a bitch in season if they reasonably believe her to be in season, even if the owner has not declared her as such.

Handlers may request that specific dogs be cast together; however, if the requested dogs are not all under the same ownership, all handlers must agree to run those dogs together.   Final pack composition is ultimately determined by the event committee.  Style and speed may be specified on the entry form  if known in order to be put with like running mates.

No hound shall be eligible to compete, no hound shall be brought into the grounds or premises of any test, and any hound which may have been brought into the grounds or premises of a test shall immediately be removed, if it 

a) shows clinical symptoms of distemper, infectious hepatitis, leptospirosis or other communicable disease, or 

b) is known to have been in contact with distemper, infectious hepatitis, leptospirosis or other communicable disease within 30 days prior to the opening of the trial, or 

c) has been kenneled within 30 days prior to the opening of the trial on premises on which there existed distemper, infectious hepatitis, leptospirosis or other communicable disease.

 AKC registered beagles or beagles that are registered with the AKC Purebred Alternative listing are eligible to enter. In order to apply for an AKC title that is approved and part of the AKC Parent Club Title Recognition Program, the dog must have an AKC registration number; however UKC, ARHA, and other formats may participate without the ability to officially gain the title through the AKC Parent Club Title Recognition Program. 

If a dog’s AKC number is not on the entry form at the time of entry they may not apply for the AKC title upon passing each level unless the owner has received from the American Kennel Club an extension notice authorizing further entries of the hound for the specified time with its litter number or foreign registration number. A copy of this letter must be attached to the entry form.

Each entry in a licensed Hunting Performance Test must be made on an official Hunting Performance Test  entry form. Each entry form must be completed in full and must be signed by the owner or his agent duly authorized to make the entry, and the information given on the form must be that which applies to the entered hound. Pre-entries may not be changed after the closing is announced except for move-ups, if move-ups are authorized in the premium.

Owners are responsible for errors made on entry forms regardless of who may have made such errors. No entry shall be accepted from any person who stands suspended from the privileges of The American Kennel Club or the National Beagle Club. 

In the case of an entry by a partnership, every member of the partnership shall be in good standing with The American Kennel Club and the NBC before the entry will be accepted; and in case of any infraction of these rules, all the partners shall be held equally responsible. 

A hound is not eligible to compete in a pack when the actual Judge of that pack or any member of his immediate family or household has owned, sold, held under lease, boarded, trained, or handled the hound within one year prior to the date of the test. Immediate family means husband, wife, father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or sister.

Transporting a hound is not considered handling. 

An event committee may decline any entries or may remove any hound from its test for any cause determined by said committee, but in each such instance shall file good and sufficient reasons for doing so with the NBC (for example: sick dogs, injured dogs, aggressive dogs, handler offenses, etc.).

A dog can be entered in multiple classes at a single test; however a dog shall not be permitted to run in a class unless it has earned the appropriate prerequisite title in lower classes.  If a dog fails to earn the prerequisite title, the additional entry fee may be applied to a second attempted run at the same test at the discretion of the event committee, if time permits. “Experienced hounds” do not have to pass any levels to qualify as experienced (see Chapter 2, Section 1 for definition of experienced hound).