Differences in bonitations...

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Originally Posted by hanninadina

And I am wondering why Sona who knows that Gorbi has a problem let him pass with P 1???

Christian how can you wonder about Sona, who is experienced and widely accepted judge, about judging the character of Gorbi wrongly? Especially when you were not there and read only parts of what people saw during the bonitation (as nobody has enough time, memory and space here to describe the whole process in detail)?

I can assure you that Gorbi didn't get the marks he got wrongly. He panicked at the beginning, but then later behaved normally, not only during measurement, but also during character test, which actually took place more than an hour later. He got Og, which of course cannot prevent him from being P1, as there were no other faults.

When a dog panics in very strange situation, it is not bad. Bad is, if the dog cannot accept the very strange situation as something which is actually not dangerous. Gorbi needed to be taken away for a while, shown his place and then calmed down, and it worked.

So the case of Gorbi does not tell anything about the way faults are evaluated in different countries.

On the other hand, I feel I need to say something more about the faults, standard, and bonitation codes. Standard says how the ideal dog should look and behave like and what faults should prevent him from being considered excellent and which faults should disqualify it from shows.
Bonitation code says which faults and diversions from the standard a dog exhibits. Some of the faults do not decrease the overall mark, or do so only in combination with others. How these combinations work is a part of knowledge of judge - if you do not have a licence, you should not say that dog with such and such fault should get P14, because you do not know, how important is which trait in overall evaluation.
Still, what mark a dog needs to get to be allowed to breed is a matter of local club. If the club decides that they will breed with dogs, which have P14 because of the character, it is their decision. If the bonitation is done properly, than everybody can see, what marks the ancestors of the puppy got and if he would buy such puppy for later breeding or not. Therefore it is much worse to not give a bad mark to a dog which actually has a fault, than to give it to it and then still use the dog for breeding. After all, the P mark only tells how the dog looks overall, but it is still necessary, when choosing partners, to consider every mark individually. If you have a good female with brown eyes, for you it is much more important, that the dog has correct eyes, than that it is slightly smaller. Especially as we know that the color of eye is from 90% (if not more ) genetic, while the height is affected also by nutrition and health during dog's development.

So I think if we should discuss the differences in evaluating dogs in different countries and by different judges, that we should more concentrate on details, like what is still considered amber and what brown, what is considered
shy, insecure, mistrustful and guarded and how it is actually found out, and which faults are most important to avoid in breeding.