Crufts And Capistrano

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76 – April, 2024

By Wayne Cavanaugh

You can count on two things happening every year in March. The swallows come home to Capistrano and the Americans come back from Crufts. The Americans come home tired yet invigorated, graced with lighter wallets and heavier luggage. The smart ones also come home with new insights into their breed, most likely regarding the classic points of breed type.

Those of us who are veterans of the voyage know exactly what not to do. But we do it anyway because it’s Crufts. First, we buy more dog art than we have wall space for. This “open floorplan” trend is not kind to hanging art, so we convince ourselves that we’re preparing for the next trend when we all decide we want our walls back.

In the best art, we see the finer points of a breed come to life. Maude Earl, Danchin, Wardle, Andsell, Osthaus and Emms unveil the beauty of function in every breed they paint. Earl and Danchin’s sporting dogs never have a headpiece that you’d mistake for any other breed, even if they had to exaggerate the finer points just a bit to get your attention.

We also are tempted to shop for actual dogs. You’ll realize that importing dogs requires graduating from a school of hard knocks that has a very low graduation rate. It requires a serious understanding of the differences and similarities in the dogs we see on either side of the pond.

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76 – April, 2024

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