[ SHOWGSD-L ] I can't make this short, it is for the memory of John
- From: ELG440@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:20:13 EDT
In a message dated 8/27/05 9:13:56 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
badbob_2003@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I talked to him about a month ago, he told me he was going to watch me
make an ass of myself stewarding again this year which was to be his last.
There seem to be a number of John De Hope stories. For some reason they are
helping me cope with the loss of yet another of the great shepherd people,
so I am going to tell my own.
A while back, late at night, I think it was 10:00 or so, so it was after
midnight for John, I got a call from him. It was the last great argument I
had
with him, and we started by just talking about the limits to the Selects and
what the board should do. John was all for it being limited to ten, and I
was against it.
John told me it was now too easy to go Select. He felt that when 1/3 of the
animals or better went Select, it meant that it was too easy. I told him
that the quality was so high now, that in the old days when there were 80 or 90
entered, many were not in competition but were in the ring for the owners to
see, and therefore, it is harder now than ever. Also, I told him that those
who entered either did go Select and were pleased with the numbers, or those
who didn't make the cut, think there should be more Selects not less.
Then John told me that it was too easy now to get an ROM. He said that it
could be done by one litter, and that the club should make it harder, and make
it be from at least two stud dogs for the bitches and for males, a higher
number of champions. I said that it seemed fine with me, it was seldom that I
had an ROM, and I sure was trying.
Next John started to talk to me about finishing a dog. He felt that with the
shows being so small, it was too easy to get a champion. He told me that if
the show only have 30 dogs in it, how could it mean anything if you beat 29
others and got a major? I told him that they kept changing the point system,
and it was as hard today to finish a dog as it always was. In each class
there were three or four that could finish that day, and it didn't used to be
that way.
We actually were yelling and cursing. And then there was a pause, and John
said: "Do you know what your problem is Evan?" I said, "No, what is it?"
John said, "You just want everyone in dogs to have a good time."
We were both silent on that comment, it must have been about a minute, and
then together, we both started to laugh.
I hope John is laughing now, right now I am not. But, it was my honor to
have had the time with him I did, and to listen to his ideas, arguments, and
knowledge. He, with so many others will be deeply missed.
Evan
_Asgard German Shepherds_ (http://www.asgardgsd.com/)
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