The team is completely responsible for their animals.
- It is the teams’ responsibility before working the cattle to pull up and call for a judge’s decision if, in their opinion, there is an injured or unusable animal in their numbered or colored cattle.
- Once the cattle are worked, no excuses are accepted.
- If an animal leaves the arena, either over or through the fence, the team can either be disqualified for unnecessary roughness, or can be given a rerun, depending on the judge’s decision.
- If a rerun is given, it must be given at the end of the total go-round.