[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: What ever happened to good sportsmanship???

  • From: Gsdstyle@xxxxxxx
  • To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:52:42 EDT

Laurie, 
 
This is an excellent post! I think it would be so valuable to get  some tips 
from judges on how they would handle situations like  this.  When faced with 
these kind of behaviors suddenly and in the  middle of the ring, a judge must 
feel enormous pressure trying to  figure out what to do, and figure it out 
fast. Thinking about how to handle  things before they happen, or even 
realizing 
that things  actually can and do happen, makes it so much easier to decide what 
to do when  you are faced with it. For new judges, for judges that have had 
this happen in  their ring and not known what to do, or for judges who may be 
faced with this in  the future, some suggestions on what others would do might 
be  a tremendous help. Thanks Laurie.
 
 
From: "Laurie Pruett" <pruett@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: What ever  happened to good sportsmanship???
I attended 3 specialties this weekend  and, at each one, I witnessed poor 
sportmanship by 3 different well-known  handlers.  No wonder the entries in our 
sport continue to  dwindle:

Show #1: handler whose very nice animal is not in contention in  the class 
refuses to move his animal with the rest of the class, telling the  judge when 
asked that his animal doesn't need any more practice.     

Show #2: handler whose animal loses in close competition in winners to  
another animal removes the leash from his animal and stuffs a toy in the dog's  
mouth and shows her that way during competition for reserve. 

Show #3:  handler whose dog was beaten in the class tells the judge that the 
other dog  hasn't beaten him all weekend - giving the judge info that he 
shouldn't have and  disadvantaging the class winner in WD competition.

We all prefer to win  and often, sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly, 
think we should win, but a  sense of "entitlement" should not translate into 
rude 
and disrespectful behavior  towards a judge in the ring.  It leaves a sour 
taste in the mouths of both  spectators and exhibitors.  At least it did me and 
many others who  witnessed these incidents this weekend.

BTW - there were no negative  consequences for any of these handlers.  IMO - 
there should have  been.  Those of you who are judges - how do you handle 
incidents like this  is your ring? 

Laurie Pruett

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