[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: showgsd-l Digest V1 #73

From: Elaine Ebestep <tykegsd@xxxxxxxxx>
To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 09:26:14 -0800 (PST)
Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
   
  When I first started exhibiting, there was no double handling.  The dogs were 
trained to respond to the handlers, and not to what was happening ringside. 
(And I remember my bitch gaiting for half an hour in the winners class.)  How 
many remember the German Shorthaired Pointer in one of the Eukanuba shows whose 
total attention was focused on her handler? Are the owners or the handlers 
failing in their training that the dogs need the chaos of doubling?  
  Elaine
    Great Danes did double handling ,long before GSDs. Our method of judging 
has 
changed in 50 yrs. There was a time when you just walked,and/or gaited for 
many laps,maybe for as long as 1/2 hr at different speeds. There was even a 
time when another handler could come in and relieve you--just ran in,grabbed 
the lead ,and did his two laps--then the original handler would come back 
,continuing on with the dog never stopping. Many times the judge would just sit 
down and not even look at the dogs,while the dogs were circling the ring I 
remember ( the first time in Dallas) I was handling one of Ernie Loeb's males 
at the National. Virginia McCoy was helping me--taking her two laps.then I 
took over again,and then she came in again,and ended up being on the dog when 
he 
won. This was a frequent occurrence. We all helped each other. At that 
period of time of judging,the dog was posed by walking into the stance with 
bait. 
I always had liver in my pockets or mouth No double handling. needed . You 
posed your dog,got examined then gaited. gaited and gaited some more. I often 
sent my owners up in the bleachers to not distract the dog. I wanted the 
dogs full attention. When the AKC stopped the interchanging of handlers,it 
wasn't because of GSD's but because of the "grandstanding" of well known all 
breed 
handlers,walking into the ring at the last minute,to take over a dog,and 
winning. But it sure affected our method of handling,both in gaiting,and 
posing. 

Helen Miller Fisher


       
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