This subject came up on Facebook as well, and I'm sorry but not buying the
below arguments...
Should breeders selected to judge a futurity also be prevented from showing
in any other futurities that year? How about judges in general - if they
are going to judge point shows, then by this mentality - they also should
not exhibit in shows either. Board members - they shouldn't show to each
other then? The list goes on and on and on and if you want to seek out
any risk of an appearance of impropriety - you need not look far. How many
cans of worms do we want to open up?
But to single out handlers, when by many accounts from judges, board
members, exhibitors, and other handlers - they have all been doing a
phenomenal job of judging futurities the past 2 years! - is just confusing
to me. I have said this many times, especially this week - YOU CANNOT
LEGISLATE HONESTY
Jeff Pyle
Windfall
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:33 PM, <edwinx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Conflict of interest in judging?..... Hum.... Does this ever happen? big
LOL! FB
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------ Original Message ------
From: HessenGSD
To: freelist
Sent: July 27, 2015 at 10:08 AM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Handlers Judging Futurities/Maturities
I suspect one of the considerations for current Handlers judging
Futurities/Maturities is that they may ultimately be competing with dogs
they are judging regionally when it comes to the finals at the National.
This might be perceived as a conflict of interest.
One way to mitigate the risk is to exclude Handlers from judging
Futurities/Maturities if they are exhibiting dogs in the
Futurities/Maturities during the year they are judging.
Peg Graham - http://HessenGSD.com
"May I always be the kind of person my dogs think I am."
