[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: WAKE UP JUDGES
- From: Peggy <pmick@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: showgsd <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:47:00 -0500
With regard to Jimmy, I have a little story to tell...it has to do
with his position as seen by members of the dog fancy who have never
paid attention to GSDs before.
> A few years ago, a class German Shepherd bitch won the group at a
> summer show in Maryland. Second to her on the day was a Corgi bitch
> who was supposed to have gone Best in Show that day. The Corgi's
> handler was livid...didn't speak to the judge for days. A week or two
> later at another show in the area, that same handler was very cordial,
> and the judge never knew what happened.
> At the same show, one year later, the judge was showing and
> grooming next to Jimmy. Jimmy started to laugh and told the judge a
> story...he said "Oh, I have a tale to tell you! Remember this show a
> year ago? I wasn't here, but I got a wild phone call after this
> circuit was over, from _____" and he named the Corgi handler.
> The judge asked "why did he call you?" Jimmy said the Corgi
> handler told him to have a word with the judge...that the judge had
> put a "pet" Shepherd up over his big winning Corgi for the group, and
> cost him a Best.
> Jimmy asked him the name of the "pet." The Corgi handler looked it up
> and read it to Jimmy, and Jimmy (telling the story a year later,now)
> just cracked up with laughter. According to Jim, he told the handler
> "don't argue with that judge, especially about that bitch...she is
> probably the best bitch in the country today."
> I think that handler started paying attention to the Shepherd ring
> after that...maybe he even learned something.
> As it happens, that Shepherd bitch was a beautiful girl called
> "Maggie," and she died tragically not long after Jimmy told the
> story...she belonged to Linda Burley, who is a list member, and who
> knows this story. The handler was Lenny Brown...it was the first
> time that judge ever laid eyes on either the bitch or on Lenny...and I
> know this is true, because the judge was me.
> We have to give Jimmy credit when it is due...he knows a good one
> when he sees it, and he doesn't hesitate to tell the world about it.
> We can take away from him, too, for showing and promoting dogs that
> aren't as good as they should be...but let's not forget that he has
> done and can continue to do some good. He has made judges less afraid
> to put up a Shepherd, and lots of dogs have benefited from that...and
> he has made the non-GSD handlers pay attention, too...something very
> few ever did before.
> Peggy
>
>
>>>Trahanone@xxxxxxx wrote:
>>> I have been around the all breed ring a while and the shepherd breed is
>>>different from all others and the difference is Jimmy Moses. Good, bad or
>>>indifferent this is how I see it.
>>>
>>
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