When we think of a sighthound, we think of the greyhound: “A Greyhound should be headed like a snake, And necked like a drake, Footed like a cat, Tailed like a rat, Sided like a teme, Backbone like a beam.” (Dame Juliana Berners’ Boke of St. Albans of 1486). To more or less extent, all sighthound breeds are—or should be—a variation on that theme. But it’s not always that easy…
It’s a big universe with over a hundred billion galaxies. Our Sun is just one of about 200 billion stars in our little galaxy. Inside our solar system there are 8 planets, 5 dwarf planets, 3,743 comets, and over a million asteroids. On our planet alone, we have war, famine, natural disasters, crime, and disease. But somehow, the biggest soul-crushing disaster in the center of the universe has become going third in the group in East Jawbip Kennel Club on Wednesday afternoon.
I remember my first dog show like it was yesterday. It was the Chicago International at McCormick Place Convention Center. While my mind was lost in amazement at the sheer scale of the show, the benches, the number of rings, etc., I was also physically lost trying to find my place to set up on the bench. I kept thinking, “Maybe I should have chosen a smaller, local show,” for my initial foray in the sport of purebred dogs, but my youth masked any apprehension I might have felt.
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An oft-quoted saying (which contains more than a grain of truth) is, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”.
Dogs with conformation championships and field titles are of immense importance to the future of virtually every sporting breed. “Nonsense,” say the people whose canine world begins and ends with the show ring. “Baloney,” is the snort from those folks whose philosophy is, “If a dog is a good hunter, who cares how it looks.”
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