Contact the Desk

Marks & Blinds is reached at one address: [email protected]. There is no form, no telephone number and no postal address, and what happens to a message once it arrives is described on the privacy page. Everything useful that arrives at that address is read, and no reply time is promised, because a promise nobody can keep is worse than no promise at all.

Before you write

For a correction, the most useful message names the page, quotes the sentence and says which edition of which rulebook contradicts it. That is enough to check the claim at the source, and corrections of that kind are usually made quickly and then recorded in notes and rule updates with the new edition and the new date of reading.

For a subject suggestion, two lines are enough: the angle, and what it adds to the pages already published. The most valuable suggestions tend to be the questions a beginner actually asks at the line and cannot find answered anywhere in one place.

For a link exchange or an editorial partnership, name the page you have in mind here and the page you are proposing. Requests are considered on whether the two subjects genuinely meet, and the rule this site follows on commercial arrangements is stated in full on the sponsored content policy.

What this address does not handle

• Questions about a particular dog's health, soundness or behavior. Those belong with a veterinarian who can examine the animal, and no diagnosis or protocol is given here.
• Entries, registrations, memberships and event paperwork, none of which this publication handles or is involved in. Those go to the organization that runs the program.
• Requests to publish a result, a placement, a pedigree or the name of a dog, an owner, a handler or a judge. Those are outside what this site prints, for the reasons set out on about this publication.
• Requests for a personal training plan. The training pages describe a progression and the reasoning behind it, and stop there.

Anything else is fair game. If a page here is unclear, saying so is genuinely useful: a reference that only makes sense to people who already know the sport has failed at the one job it has. A message that says which sentence stopped a reader is worth more than a general compliment, and it usually results in a rewrite rather than a reply.

Messages are read; not all of them are answered, and none is answered on a schedule. The method those pages follow, including how a correction is recorded and dated once it has been accepted, is described in sources and method.