[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: 2 specialties in one day approved for 2007, oppinions p...

  • From: Peggy <pmick@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Rbuffdogs@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:07:50 -0500

A couple of years ago (and Greg has mentioned this just a few posts ago) 
at the Monroe, LA, shows, I got to experience a set of all breed shows 
(breed and groups) with night specialties...and I didn't see anyone 
falling down from exhaustion... in fact, when the food came out, the 
handlers were right there joking around with the rest of us!
     All those shows were indoors...in a really big ring, and no one 
complained about them being indoors, or about the ring being too small 
for specialty dogs (and there were a couple of dogs shown who have now 
become household names in the GSD world, not your average all-breed 
dog)...I think everyone there had a good time.
    People were all around grooming, in fact, people were helping one 
another the entire time...  I was quite taken with the spirit shown by 
everyone involved at those shows.
    Enough so that I came home and suggested to our Virginia clubs that 
we try to work something out with the Virginia Beach all breed cluster 
in November for our December specialties...4 shows with two night time 
specialties...the idea was pooh-poohed with "oh no, our dogs have to be 
shown outdoors."  This in spite of the fact that the outdoor December 
shows are always colder than a well-digger's behind, and often in mud up 
to the handlers' and judges' ankles--
    Now comes another story...the Tarheel Circuit just finished...Joan 
Segro has bragged about her wins there, as has Tom Castriota...people, 
the Tarheel is a week long circuit, and guess what?  The NC clubs went 
in there at night for their specialties...all held indoors in the ring 
used at the all breeds for Best in Show.  Did you read any complaints 
from Tom?  from Joan?  from any of the judges?  No, you did not.
    It can be done...and as Lanalee said, if you are so tired you can't 
do it, just don't enter everything.
    Still, 6 sets of majors is hard to turn down in these times...when 
the clubs work it out so you don't have to worry about the weather, and 
ensure that the ring is specialty sized, what is the problem?  Entries 
go up (these were all 4 and 5 point shows, were they not?)...everybody 
gets a chance to hang out for a few days and enjoy themselves...it just 
may be the way of the future. 
Peggy

Rbuffdogs@xxxxxxx wrote:

>I think it would be very hard on handlers , but as was so aptly pointed out  
>some will not enter both.  
>I think the MOST  exhausted we had ever been, was the show circuit in  UT a 
>few years ago, something like six shows in 4 days or less.  AB in the  
>morning...stay till Group THEN specialties.....ugh.  We were dead on our  feet 
>by the 
>final day, and the dogs were beat.
>What a week!
> 
>I think the idea has merit.  The dogs won't suffer if they are in  condition 
>, after all these ARE working dogs, right? The only real factors  I see other 
>than wear and tear on handlers /conditioners, and owners is possibly  weather, 
>and running out of daylight.  You would need judges with xint ring  
>procedure, that don't screw around, and keep things moving along.  You  would 
>need a 
>considerable break twixt shows....wardrobe change? lol.  Would  you take a 
>lunch 
>break between dogs and bitches in both shows (hope so) and a  little break 
>before Breed (sure does help).
>  
>
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