[Artemisia] Artemisia Digest, Vol 69, Issue 8

[Willa Rose]

Good idea Marcello. Two things to add:

1 This was in place before the turn of the century ( literally ) under 
my supervision as the Kingdom Minister of the Royal Stables. My vision 
for the Royal Stables was to include hounds and hawks with the horses 
within its organization. We had a Regent for each division. We even had 
a list of collegium classes to advance through including camping with 
your hounds. This system of training dog owners and dogs to obedience 
was promoted to 1st time campers with pets. They showed up and had to 
attend an introductory class on acceptable camping practices. Upon 
completion, they were given a ribbon to tie onto their pets collar, 
which notified anyone concerned that the pet in question had passed the 
test. Then there were levels of achievement to participate in for 
awarding the pet more permanent status earning other visible means of 
identification and eventually an Award of Paws. The goal was to assure 
event stewards that owners w/pets could be allowed on site if they were 
trained and their pets passed the test, and to teach the historical use 
of hunting hounds as well. Back then there was an interest in doing 
this. Perhaps it didn't draw enough interest for folks to keep it going. 
I'm not sure what has happened to the teaching material at kingdom 
level, but if anyone is interested, I still have it all on file and 
would love to share it so it can be revived or improved upon.

2. It was determined at corporate level a few years back that pet 
activities and their safety do NOT fall under marshallate management, 
but that there could be a representative per kingdom to oversee 
legal/modern pet activity. Historical research and display on hunting, 
etc. falls under A&S. The bottom line is that your idea can be managed 
per kingdom rules/regs, but is not something that needs to be reported 
to a society level officer, because there is none. Hope that makes sense.

In all, I'd love to see it come back. Hounds were a big part of daily 
life then as is now, and they can be trained/retrained as long as the 
trainer gets the help he/she needs.

Yaasamiin
Society Equestrian Officer
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> From: "Ken and Mindy Wilson" <kenandmindy at cableone.net>
> Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Pets question
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> The problem is that there's not really any way to tell the responsible pet
> owners from the less-than-responsible ones.
> Perhaps some sort of authorization procedure for responsible pet owners
> should be enacted at the kingdom level. It would naturally fall under the
> auspices of the Regent of the Stables office. Territorial groups could have
> warranted Pet Marshalls, and there could be marshals-at-large. The pets
> would need to carry their authorization cards with them while at the event,
> and owners would be required to show them at the reeve table when they check
> in on site.
> Hey, it works for fighters. Mostly.
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> -Marcello, who would much rather have to worry about a pet than teenagers
> this Uprising.
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