We’ve all been there. We take our chance on a permit judge. We watch while the judge proceeds to butcher the stan- dard. We blame the judge. Maybe we should blame our parent clubs’ Judges’ Education Committees (JECs).
We have another fun #ThrowbackThursday photo to share with our readers on this Thursday. Can you guess who is pictured in this cute throwback? Guess Who? Check back on Monday for the correct answer! The correct answer to this week’s throwback is Alex Romero. Thanks Alex for this great photo! Don’t forget! Do you have […]
Recently, I was being mentored outside the ring. It was a Working breed with a good entry and a permit (aka provisional) judge. The person mentoring me thought the judge was doing a good job and I could see what she was looking for.
Pam Peat fell and broke her wrist just before her Best In Show assignment while judging in Coeur D’lene, Idaho this past week.
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For IMHO this month, I decided to put a world-wide slant to the questions and invite well respected American and foreign judges to respond. Mr. Michael Canalizo from New York, NY USA, Dr. John Reeve-Newson from Toronto, Canada, and Mr. Frank Kane from Yorkshire, United Kingdom–all icons of the dog world–kindly agreed to give us their insights into the changes they have seen in dog shows over their decades of participation and the differences in judging procedures they have experienced.
Robert “Bob” Slay Tops Judging Panel at America’s Dog Show. Mr. Robert H. Slay of Cary, North Carolina has been given the most prestigious judging assignment in the sport of purebred dogs — deciding who will be the Best In Show winner at the 144th Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden.
Dog show moms are truly the unsung heroines of our sport. They are the greatest moms and the sport of purebred dogs just would not be the same without them. Marlene Groves, a colleague of mine, asked, “What about grandmas?” “Grand-mothers, count too,” I told her.
We have another fun #ThrowbackThursday photo to share with our readers on this Thursday. Can you name the folks pictured in this photo from a past Del Monte Kennel Club circa 1960? Guess Who? Check back on Monday for the correct answer! The correct answer is Carl Anderson handling CH Carro’s Parti Crasher with judge […]
In the Lessig household, the past six weeks have been fraught with domestic decisions. With unusual frequency, smaller appliances, larger ones, newer ones, and older ones all broke. The electronic gates at the bottom of the driveway ceased to function when a Fedex delivery truck hit the left one while executing a “K” turn which went awry.
