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Originally Posted by bbrown
I agree with Nick on the trainers but do not overlook a trainer that goes north for the summer. I will only put a competitive dog with a person that goes north for the summer for 2 reasons.
1)It is much cooler up north and you can get more out of a dog when the weather is under 100F and 1000000% humidity
2)The dog will have more opportunity to run tests during the HT/FT as most test are held up north during the summer months.
With that being said its all about who you are comfortable with and echoing what Sprunt said, go and train with the person prior to sending your dog there. If he is training what you are comfortable with them move forward with him. Everybody on this site has an opinion however with your dog, yours is the only one that matters.
Good luck in the process and I hope you enjoy it.
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Competitive FT dogs definitely, you don't stand a chance on the FT circuit training for the 30 mins a day of tolerable weather during the summer. I think that many HT trainers can and do make it work down south in the summer, bc the setups are so different that it allows them to train many more dogs per hour than FT.