[ SHOWGSD-L ] Faults come in degrees
- From: falkora@xxxxxxxx
- To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 07:24:48 -0600
In my opinion, faults come in degrees, and should be considered
accordingly. Coming and going is a very good example to use. First
of all, a dog can be good coming and bad going, or the other way
around. But more important is the range of "defective". Really
bad, poor, average, good, excellent, and perfect. How many of you
would class anything less than "perfect" as not acceptable?
I would certainly place a dog who has a coordinated, ground-covering
side gait with good coming and average going away over a dog with a
shorter stride, less front reach and rear drive but who was good to
excellent coming and going.
My personal pet peeve is the judge who thinks "perfect" is the dog
who tracks on parallel planes and does not converge to a center line!
Again this characteristic is faulty by degree also, how far off the
center line?
But every characteristic should be judged by whether the deviation
from perfect affects the total performance of the dog.
Linda Kofstad
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