Quote Originally Posted by bolero View Post
i feel a dog should be aloud to hesitate as long at the end of ten it gets there. sometimes dogs are literally out on there feet. and needs to catch its bearings being grabbed rushed back to a corner turned around and let go with a dog who is injured can cause confusion, now if he does hesitate due to injury and tries to cross i would then pick up said dog the rules are there to allow the dog s to stop if they want to but so is his handler and the handler should have the dogs best interest at heart
Dogs are very much allowed to hesitate on a scratch. They're allowed to jump the box, run and turn their ass around at the last second. Dogs are allowed to do whatever they want on a scratch because we, as owners, have zero control on what they're going to do. Any handler with any eye can plainly differentiate when a dog is out on it's feet, or whatever vernacular you want to use, as opposed to looking for a legitimate way out. I can't honestly say I've ever seen a dog become confused due to being handled and taken back to a corner. Once you consider that happens a lot in the schooling process, or it should, there shouldn't be any confusion on the dog's part on what's going on at that moment.

While I can empathize with the dog's plight, I'm not going to try and make up excuses to try and satisfy some inner justification to keep a dog that may simply not be able to cut that mustard.