{"id":25094,"date":"2013-08-13T16:06:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=25094"},"modified":"2013-08-13T16:12:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T21:12:57","slug":"sporting-dog-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=25094","title":{"rendered":"Sporting Dog Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/springer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25100\" alt=\"springer\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/springer-300x205.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/springer-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/springer-255x175.jpg 255w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/springer.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>MANDAN, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Sporting dogs will be judged in the categories of nose, search, tracking, pointing, water, desire and cooperation this weekend as part of a North Dakota competition.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 Central Dakota Chapter of North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association is hosting its annual hunt tests at Sweet Briar Recreation Area on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The chapter&#8217;s Sherry Niesar says 13 dogs from North Dakota, Montana and Canada are registered to compete in a full field.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s natural ability test is designed to evaluate the inherent abilities of young dogs and gain insight into their potential as versatile gun dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s utility test evaluates trained dogs in the water and field, before and after the shot, to see how they perform as versatile hunting companions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANDAN, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Sporting dogs will be judged in the categories of nose, search, tracking, pointing, water, desire and cooperation this weekend as part of a North Dakota competition. The\u00a0 Central Dakota Chapter of North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association is hosting its annual hunt tests at Sweet Briar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25094"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25099,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25094\/revisions\/25099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}