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Welcome to the World's Oldest Club dedicated Exclusively to the Working Bouvier!   French Ring Sport Many dog sport fans consider French Ring Sport to be the most challenging of the protection sports. It has demanding jumping exercises, high speed protection work with micro control of the dogs, and complex, problem oriented obedience exercises. Exciting to watch and addictive to train, it is also very beneficial to shaping and balancing the dog's temperament. Although it is trained as a sport, the exercises are so fundamentally useful that many police canine officers like to buy dogs trained this way. They say they convert to street work readily. French Ring is delightfully suited for Bouviers of high drive and sound nerves for many reasons. It is judged upon the goal of the exercise instead of style. So if the Bouvier can get the job done properly, he will earn the points. The judge must justify in writing each and every point deduction. There are no frivolous, style oriented point deductions. It caters to the Bouvier's innate sense of responsibility but doesn't force him into a mold. The decoy challenges the dog both mentally and physically and the good working Bouvier loves to take up the challenge. Because the dog does the entire competition at one time without leaving the field, it taxes the endurance of many Bouviers and is a great test of working ability in many important ways. While still small and growing in North America under the auspices of NARA and CRA, there has already been a Ring 3 Bouvier here and a number of dogs at the lower levels of Ring. It is the most popular protection sport for Bouviers in France with a growing number each year earning titles. NAWBA offers Ring Trials at their nationally sponsored events.      The Long Jump    The Palisade     The Hurdle Rules and point deductions for brevet and Ring 1 the french ring bitesuit of the mid-1970's From Paul LeGall's book "le bouvier des flandres - guide pratique de l'amateur"