Perry and Little Perry will happen back-to-back in June, heralding the renewal of the dog world and dog sports. Nine days of dog shows begin on June 11 and run through June 21. Monday the 15thand Tuesday the 16th will be open dates, though no one will have to move their motorhome. The Georgia National Fairgrounds is being very accommodating to the dog show world, and to the Atlanta, Valdosta, Macon and Southeast Alabama Kennel Clubs in particular.
If there’s one consistent theme running through this pandemic horror show it’s the critical need for inspired leadership. Nobody knows what the hell to do, how to do it, when or why. Essentially, at times like this, when hope and confidence are understandably hitting a low ebb we need to believe that things really will get better.
People are drawn into the dog world from every corner of the universe. Within their myriad back stories there’s one common denominator.
In this case, that game included outright bribery. However, MacKay didn’t simply bribe judges; he put them onto the company payroll. Better yet, he paid himself to do it. Interesting revelations in MacKay’s business expenses included over $400,000 in fees to his personal executive recruitment firm that hired outside consultants and new employees.
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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.
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 […]
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
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 […]
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…”
