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Breed Priorities – Flat-Coated Retriever
The breed standard for the Flat-Coated Retriever includes one of my favorite phrases describing a breed – “power without lumber and raciness without weediness.” The standard also lists the “distinctive and most important features” of the breed in the General Appearance section – silhouette (moving and standing), smooth effortless movement, head type, coat, and character. They reflect the five items of breed type in Richard Beauchamp’s book, by the way. It is helpful when breed standards provide us with explicit priorities. I looked for the survey that this article is based on to corroborate and elaborate their priorities.
Table Talk · April 16, 2020
I am so proud of those in our sport on so many levels! They say one of the true tests of a friendship is distance and time. True friends can pick up where they left off after being apart for a length of time. True friends feel a connection even when apart. In my humble opinion, the sport of […]
IMHO – Judges and Social Media
Facebook has become the best friend and the biggest enemy of our social media lives in Dogdom. What can be a positive interaction can just as easily become a destruction derby. Here are viewpoints from three judges on this very challenging area of our daily interactions. Maybe these responses will encourage the way you use Facebook to do good, or to temper your words before they do harm? ~ Elaine Lessig, Moderator
The Advantage of Social Distancing
By Amy Fernandez Social Distancing – a term that just rolls right off the tongue these days–wow! It’s almost hard to recall when that behavior merited psychiatric classification. But enough bad jokes. My point is that life changes in the blink of an eye. And although most people are struggling to lockstep these new health […]
Show Cancelled…
Icancelled our show. The show we had been planning for a year, the show that broke all our entry records for the past decade. It wasn’t an easy decision. I have a reputation to uphold as the last person to prepare for a hurricane/metro impact/zombie apocalypse…I have handlers contacting me to make sure the show is still on, reminding me their livelihoods depend on my decision; I have all those memes on Facebook telling me “it’s no worse than the flu…”
The Big E – Everything Has a Price
Finally, after several weekends in a row of family events and dog show commitments, my husband, Marvin, and I were both at home at the same time. For us, yes indeed, this is a very special event. What better way to celebrate than to have Chinese take-out? There was just one issue to be resolved, where to order the food.
Dog Owners Forced to Go Back to Basics
By Amy Fernandez Strange times we are living in right now. Even in our fringy realm this lifestyle is a whole new learning curve. Obviously, it’s hard to schedule life with …no schedule. So, downtime is all the time. I don’t know about you, but I’m totally caught up with beer drinking and binge watching […]
Winter Garden Specialties
I took my annual hike up to Rye Brook to check out the 2020 Winter Garden specialties. I don’t blame you for losing track of exactly what, where or when. These shows have moved around A LOT.
Going Viral
Hot on the heels of that horrifying tidbit, we learned that two more dogs owned by Hong Kong residents had been quarantined, one of which also showed “weak positive” lab results.
