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Video Appraisal Description

Because North America does not have the necessary knowledge and experience yet, North America will depend on South Africa for given services such as appraisals.  Bringing the senior appraisers over from South Africa is expensive plus it requires a lot of time from the senior appraisers who are giving up their personal vacation time to come over and conduct the appraisals.  For the time being we will not see many appraisals per year in Northern America.  But if you have a dog that you want to breed before the next USA appraisal tour, you can opt to have your dog video appraised.

But to get your dog video appraised (registered via Video Appraisal), you will have to be a paid up member and you will have to get approval from the US/Canada board member first.  Very few Video Appraisals will be approved.  If you know you need to have a dog Video Appraised, apply for approval now.

Take note too that the registration term for a dog that was Video Appraised expires after a year. *  This is not new, but just mentioned again in case members are not aware of it.

All videos will be viewed by the board member for completeness prior to sending it to the senior appraiser.  If the video lacks, the member will have to resubmit the video after paying the re-submit fee.

If the senior appraiser reviewing the video feels comfortable that the dog will appraise and see no issues with the dog, the dog will be registered with the mimimum score (currently 75%).  Obviously the member is not guaranteed that a dog will pass the Video Appraisal.

Video Appraisals are only available for SABT members in good standing.  The dog must be at least 12 months old when the video was taken.

The following serves as guidelines for the video:

• Video should be in electronic format.
• At no time should the dog be in long grass.
• The dog should fill as much possible of the camera's view.
• Bite.  Video the front of the mouth closed with the lips pulled up and the tongue out of the way.
• Nose.  Show the nose close up in the video.
• Head.  Video the head from the front, sides and top.
• Eyes.  Close up shots of the eyes with the dog looking straight ahead/level.
• Ears.  The head video will show the appraisers the shape and size of the ears.  But now the dog needs to be attentive/curious and the video should be taken from the front of the dog.
• Body.  With the dog standing naturally (not stacked as such a stance is not usable/natural), video the dog all round.  Make sure the dog is standing natural, balanced and no one front or back leg is behind the other one.  To be safe, take a second video clip after resetting the dog.
• Chest.  With the dog still standing make sure to have the camera low enough to show the chest as seen from the front.
• Paws.  The dog should not be on grass when the paws (front and back) are video taped but rather on a hard surface.  Take close up videos of all four paws with the dog standing.
• Back.  Holding the camera above the dog, video the dog's back. Take videos from the front as well as from behind (but the camera held above the dog).
• Pigmentation.  Make sure the video includes video from the area right under the tail and also include the genitals. Turn the dog over on its back and video the foot cushions and belly.
• Walking away.  Video the dog walking straight away from the camera.  Make sure you stay zoomed in on the dog and have the camera up high so as to show the back and shoulder movement clearly as well.  Do not pull on the dog in any direction but make sure the dog's head is not down.
• Walking towards the camera.  Video the dog walking straight to the camera.  Again the head should not be hanging.
• Trotting.  Video the dog while trotting from one side to the other side of the camera operator.  This video will then be a side view of the dog.  Do not allow the dog to break out of the trot into a gallop.

In summary then, you:

• Record the video.
• Send the CD to your board member in the US or upload it to youtube.com.
• Turn in the original birth certificate to the US board member.
• Fill in and submit the Video Appraisal Submission form.
• Pay for the service.

Note *) For people living in desoluted areas where appraisals are not held, will maintain their registration status until there is an appraisal held close to them.