In a message dated 5/5/11 8:34:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ketchy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: Jeddie's situation happened after she made the cut from a large (11-15) Maturity class that had already been worked hard, temperament tested, etc. Leaving 5, in my opinion was just plain stupid. Why not 6 or 7? One of the things that I have always thought a mistake, is to go back and recheck temperament. If the dog passed in the judges opinion, that should be it. At times I have gone back and check briefly the entire class to see if I got it wrong on one dog or another. But, that is a mistake on my part. Do the temperament test. If you have a doubt don't place the dog. If you do it again, you now have two results, and have to pick one. Not my idea of smart judging. Evan Ginsburg Asgard German Shepherds http://www.asgardgsd.com/ Where Type Movement and Temperament come together ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2011. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION:http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================