Posted on 02/18/2010 6:17:41 AM PST by JoeProBono
IIRC, "Herding" is a separate category.
See that very hairy white object at the lower right that looks like a sheep?
I own one of those! She is my first Komondor. She’s 13 weeks, and the hairiest/fluffiest ball of fun you ever seen. Her resemblance to a polar bear cub is scary.
This is to no one in particular, I’m just proud of my Komondor.
Yes, herding is its own category.
Yeah, I know what you mean... there’s no way our dogs are gonna catch that rabbit either... :-)
that just melts my heart right there.
Sadie wasn’t the “safe” choice, she actually is an incredible dog. It’s tough to judge those things, but it comes down to the smallest perfections and imperfections at that point, and that night, Sadie had the fewest imperfections. They are not judged against each other, they are judged against their own breed standards.
I think the PA guy was new. He didn’t sound like the fellow that had been doing it for years. The current PA guy kept making flubs and mistakes.
:-)
Then it must follow that since...
“There are 26 working breeds, including boxers, Dobermans, Rottweilers and great Danes. In the Best in Show competition’s 103-human-year, 721-dog-year history, members of these 26 breeds have taken top prize a grand total of nine times. Meanwhile, darling, darling Scotties have copped eight blue ribbons.”
you must believe that the working dog breeds have more trouble meeting their respective breed standards.
Right? So then, what exactly do you think makes the Scottish Terrier so much more likely to achieve “perfection” than the working breeds? Think of all the working dog owners you could help by explaining how the terrier meets the standards so often but the working dogs do not. Well? The numbers don’t lie.
You must also believe that beauty pageants are judged according to breed standards, instead of by the subjective eye of each judge who all have their own personal idea of what beauty is.
Well... the AKC is just a beauty pageant.
Breeds that were created to work (almost all)
are reduced to outward conformity.
Sad.
Not to mention that there are over 1200 breeds
worldwide, but only a third in the AKC.
For example, the Azores Cattle Dog. Great
beast with true working ability - not in
the AKC.
i like to say that if i didn’t have a husband, i’d have a bunch more dogs : ) we have 2 cavalier king charles spaniels, whom i adore, but i love ALL dogs and puppies are just adorable regardless of breed. you are so lucky to have some coming into your house!
Thanks for the great photos, Joe...I have had Rotties for 35-years.
I agree with the article...the Scottie was pretty cute, but I picked two of the top three dogs that placed just because that’s the way the show is stacked. If a breed happens to fall out of popularity, there is no chance it will do well at major shows...or minor shows for that matter.
I really liked the Boxer and the Akita was beautiful.
At the risk of sounding somewhat less than humble, my current Tervuren is perhaps the most "child-friendly" dog I've ever been around...amazingly I don't have kids, and he only sees my nieces and nephews a few times a year. He accompanies me virtually everywhere he can in public, so he does stay well socialized, but he just has a way of being exceptionally gentle with (and protective of) little kids...
LOL!! I love Bulldogs
I think you can tell how old they are, by how long their noses are... LOL...
When they’re just puppies, they have such snub-noses, but they start getting longer and longer as they grow up... :-)
So there is a great Irish drinking song, goes something like this;
" Do ya drop kick the Corgis when the Queens not around - when she's out with her crown...."
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