Stop Burning Your Entry Fees
Have you ever decided to train your dog in the ring? Did you get upset when your dog didn’t win, even though your dog was the better dog?
“Author Archive”
The Tail Wagging The Dog: Or When Is 5% Not 5%?
I occasionally get requests from readers to write about a particular topic. And so it was this one came in, suggesting I write about tails. “For example,” she wrote, “my breed says tail to be carried from 12 o’clock to 3 o’clock with no preference, but the reality is if a tail is carried lower than high noon the dog is ignored. I’ve seen judges measure length of hair on the tail, or how long a docked tail is. My point is in most standards, or many, tails are only 5% of the standard. So in my book, judges shouldn’t be so nit picky about them.”
Anna Katherine Nicholas – The WKC Blizzard of ’69
Yes, it appears that Westminster is gearing up for yet another relocation. Arguably, after the last few years, we should be pretty good at navigating the free-floating Westminster. A couple years at the Piers, a couple years at Lyndhust, a couple years at BJK. For sure, the basic Westminster logistics are far more demanding than the average show. Just getting there and back requires extensive pre-planning–never mind all the unforeseen complications that inevitably make the experience memorable.
Stay In Your Own Lane
I was just speaking with my friend Colin, which we do every couple days. Most of the time we talk about news going on at the shows. Colin is very intuitive and tends to know what’s going on before most, so it’s really a gossip catch-up, which is always fun, LOL. On this day he was going on about a Facebook post he read. In the post, the person was starting a new venture. Colin clearly thought they were not experienced enough in that field to go ahead with such a project.
New Information On The “Hunger Gene” In Labs And Flat-Coats
Researchers have unraveled more information about the genetic POMC mutation that makes some Labrador Retrievers perpetually hungry.
The Big E – End Of An Era
There come times in our lives when we have the responsibility to take a good look at where we are, where we have been, and where we should be going.
Westminster Memories – David Fitzpatrick
Westminster is, by nature, a fairly shocking experience. But it turns out that even the seasoned professionals are not immune to some mental shakeups in this curious environment.
Did You Know? – Great Breeders Hold All The Cards!
The main tenet of the dog show was founded on the premise of “evaluating breeding stock”… Sure, it started out with Sportsmen comparing their hunting dogs because they thought theirs were better than the others. That sort of thinking is still in play to this very day, with a few thousand variations. But there is one thing that has never changed, and that is every dog has/had a breeder!
My, What A Big Brain You Have!
Goldilocks may have thought the wolf had a big brain, but alas, not so much the dog.
The Long, Uphill Climb (To Recognition)
The very first Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers, two of them, arrived here from Ireland in 1946. Interest in the breed was not forthcoming however, and, although they were shown the following year at Westminster, early efforts to earn breed recognition met with defeat.
