Cyclone Country Kennel Club, Saturday, February 16, 2013
It was a slow day at the dog show, Dave was recovering from knee surgery, so I did my best. Sorry that it wasn't good enough for the judges this weekend. Too bad their choices weren't always the most correct when compared to the standard.
Because we only had two dogs to show, that does not mean that we didn't interact with many of the handlers on their way home from Westminster. I will have comments about that later.
For now my thoughts on Saturday:
It was a slow day at the dog show, Dave was recovering from knee surgery, so I did my best. Sorry that it wasn't good enough for the judges this weekend. Too bad their choices weren't always the most correct when compared to the standard.
Because we only had two dogs to show, that does not mean that we didn't interact with many of the handlers on their way home from Westminster. I will have comments about that later.
For now my thoughts on Saturday:
HEYYYYYY ABBOTTTTTTT!!!!!!!
(hopefully, some of you are old enough to remember that obnoxious call)
Well, I think I would rather have sat through a 24 hour
marathon of “Abbott and Costello” than what we witnessed at the Des Moines Show
on Saturday. As usual with a large entry
of dogs (any breed) there will be at least a couple of good ones to choose
from. Could Vicki Abbott find them in
any breed that day? Not from what we saw
and heard. Could she be nice to the
exhibitors? Again, not from what we saw
and heard. Ms. Abbot, did you really
have to make someone cry? You thought
that her dog was good enough to place 1st in a the open class, the
largest class of entries. All she wanted
to know was why you didn’t like him well enough to even give him reserve. You told her to never bring a dog in that
horrible condition into your ring again.
If he was that horrible, why did you give him the open class? Could you not have just advised the owner to work
more on growing and conditioning the coat?
In my opinion, that dog had more hair on his head than some of these
specials whose handlers have razored in their head coat so the handler doesn't have to deal with hair falling in the dog’s eyes and face. The difference: this amateur-owner-handler showed her dog natural,
not curled back and sprayed in place so the hair doesn’t move. This was just one breed that you judged on
Saturday. Ms. Abbott, if your intent was
to be the talk of the show, you succeeded.
It has been a long time since that many handlers, and owner-handlers, complained
about a judge with no obvious medical issues.
If you have health problems that are effecting your judging, then you
need to resolve them before accepting any more assignments. If you don’t have health problems, and are
basically just being a B****, then I guess there isn’t much else that we can do
about it, except to not enter under you again.
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I learned a long time ago to not waste time asking a judge what they didn’t like about my dog, but some people still do it. It doesn’t matter what the judge says, chances are it is mostly BS. I just wish that they realized what an impact their comments have on that exhibitor and in turn the entire sport.
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I learned a long time ago to not waste time asking a judge what they didn’t like about my dog, but some people still do it. It doesn’t matter what the judge says, chances are it is mostly BS. I just wish that they realized what an impact their comments have on that exhibitor and in turn the entire sport.
