Breeding Winners to Winners and “Soft Wired Breeding”
This report updates the findings and disappointments found among breeders who bred quality bitches to high quality males with unimpressive results.
“Author Archive”
AUSSIE…AUSSIE…AUSSIE…
Anyone who has spent any time around Australians (especially slightly inebriated citizens from the Land Down Under) will undoubtedly have been subjected to their much loved and rather clamorous chant, “Aussie, Aussie Aussie…Oi, Oi, Oi!”
Breed Priorities – Bedlington Terrier
“Is that a lamb?” Bedlington Terrier fanciers are probably as cordially sick of hearing that as you are about the clichés about your breed. With its shape, size, and coat, its appearance is unique among terriers, and among most other breeds too, sharing its curves with the Whippet.
Will’s World – Top 10 Odd Questions Spectators Ask at a Dog Show
Will Alexander Drops Some Knowledge About What’s Happening in the Sport of Dogs. It’s Deep… It’s Humorous… It’s Provocative… It’s Will Unfiltered! This week Will gives us Top 10 Odd Questions Spectators Ask at a Dog Show. Click here to watch on Canine Chronicle TV!
The Big E – Easy? Hardly!
I am in the middle of judging a breed of toy dogs, when a lovely exhibitor very timidly says, “This is my first day showing a dog. I am not sure what I am supposed to do.” I assure her that she has come to the perfect ring. “You have nothing to worry about here,” I say in a gentle voice.
Seasoned Campaigners – Landon Livingston and Nancy Shaw
Among the junior handlers showing this year was Landon Livingston, 10-year-old son of respected handler Clint Livingston—who was sidelined by health issues in June and was unable to make it to Westminster—and handler Karen Livingston.
In Their Own Words
The 145th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show was held at Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, New York on June 12 and 13. We asked the seven group judges and Patricia Craige Trotter, the Best in Show judge, to talk about their assignments and placements.
Will’s World – Dog Show Tips – Robert RC Carusi Interview
Will Alexander Drops Some Knowledge About What’s Happening in the Sport of Dogs. It’s Deep… It’s Humorous… It’s Provocative… It’s Will Unfiltered! This week Will interviews Robert RC Carusi. Click here to watch on Canine Chronicle TV!
What They Were Meant To Do?
Several years ago, while I was judging a master hunt test for pointing breeds, a simply stunning Irish Setter came to the breakaway. Although smaller than the behemoths that were fashionable in the show ring at the time, the dog was absolutely correct in every way including having proper angulation instead of the extreme angulation that was also the show ring fashion. When sent to hunt, the setter lived up to his physical appearance when standing as he simply flowed through the field finding, pointing and retrieving several birds. While he didn’t point with the pure twelve o’clock tail that field trial judges want to see, it was close enough so that every time he went on point, it made a very pretty picture and it definitely was a pleasure watching this handsome dog do the work the breed was intended to do.
