I am wondering about people like Uli, Eichhorn and some others. Dogshows work their whole "life" like they do now a days! There changed nothing! There were always "only" judges who judge the dogs. Some of them are special judges to a special breed but not necessarily they do the judgement during a world dog show or dog show!
And everybody who takes part or took part at a dog show knows that a dog mostly beahve different during each different show. Only these dogs who are well ring trained and have a great performer will do similar each show. But because of different halls, dogs, weather conditions, the mood of the owner, the mood of the dog handler, the mood of the dog himself etc. makes understandable that dogs perform different.
And a dog who is presented in a small special csw dog show with let us say only 45 dogs on a peaceful green outside a city - like our shows are done in germany - and in other countries too - will react and behave totally different to a dog during a world dog show with all his action and noise!
What I wanna say, it is of course a big stuning work that a dog, his owner and the dog handler do during for example a world dog show. And it does not matter if there is a special judge or not!!! Especially the csws are character strong animals and they can show their character in these shows.
It is very simple, if you do not take part the race it is your own problem, but do not claim that such results are bad and werth nothing. This is simply not true. I saw to many dogs which should be excellent standard csws (and other breeds) who were not able to do a good show in heavily circumstances! And what should this be a good looking csw in standard if he is not able to show his presense in a big show?
Best would be to present dogs in all shows! Only this matters and would be werth. Of course I know a lot of people who are afraid that their dogs are not able to manage even a normal judge. But what is it werth, if I only go to judges, who I like and where I know before how the result will be? It is nothing werth!!!
Dogs Shows, are like it was written above, only shows!!! They are entertainment for visitors, dog owners, dogs (sometimes, lol) and judges. These are not "God" shows.
If you look on car or motorcyle raceways you will find raceways which are in very good condition and some who are in bad condition. If you wanna be a true champion, you have to be good on all conditions! Very simple, and not only in these where you all know. That is werth nothing.
So all my congratulations to winners and(!) participiants on the WW 2011 in Paris. And what is a result werth without the other participiants? Nothing! And if there are more and more participiants the result is werth even more! As someone wrote, the second biggest number of paticipiants of csws every!!! That is a word!
Christian
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