[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: My take on Temp Test @ Futurities
- From: Ken Tank <tanksr@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 22:02:56 -0700
Have to agree with this. There must be a better way. Who picks the observer?
Is it even a good idea to have an observer? Is this really going to help the
Futurities entries????
Ken
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Caggra@xxxxxxx <caggra@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I feel that in trying to continue to add rules on top of rules and verbiage
> that could intimidate Futurity judges, a no win situation has been born.
> In many cases we have AKC licensed judges who have been judging for 20 or 30
> years and yet they are being handed a contract with step by step
> instructions of exactly how to do their temperment test in the Futurity.
> Then on top of that they are told that "someone" will be watching them and
> writing up a report on if they did it right or wrong?!?! So, what
> transpires is a complete UNNATURAL temperment test because the judge is
> going through specific motions and feels under a microscope. This is where
> I see a problem. Any temperment test should be motions of normal natural
> everyday situations. The judge should walk up to me naturally with no
> strange or awkward motions and casually say hi to me and pet my dog on their
> head. That's it, end of story. Anything else that contains awkwardness or
> nervousness and I would expect
> my dog to react suspiciously.
>
> In the case of this past weekend at the SE Futurity I do not blame the
> judge at all. I showed under her just several weeks ago and her temperment
> test was perfectly fine. I don't believe any dogs were excused. But then
> weeks later at the Futurity, she is given a specific set of instructions and
> told there is an "observer" and what happens? It doesn't take a genius to
> figure out where the issue is.
> I sympathize with everyone affected as 2 of my clients were as well. And
> both of these animals I have shown many times without issue including the
> days before the Futurity this weekend.
>
> Jeff Pyle
> Windfall
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