[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: hold on to your hats.......
- From: "Carolyn Martello" <marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:23:17 -0700
That's just all we need........someone that judges Pugs to tell us what we need
to change in our standard to fit what THEY think is a clearer interpretation.
.We don't need assistance with interpretation.
Don't they know that a Breed Club can monitor it's own Breed Standard ??
We'll get locked into exact speciic inches in heighth, length and coat length
and eye color and body depth and have to throw out some wonderful dogs
because of some vague variation.
I don't think this works on a working Breed like ours that performs such a
variety of work with a variety of coat lengths, sizes, hocks, eye color,
etc......
It might work on some adorable Foo FOO dogs that you just look at and
brush...<G>
Carolyn marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.Marhaven.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Peggy
To: Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:42 AM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] hold on to your hats.......
A judge who for the moment shall remain nameless, has come up with an
idea that I believe is so awful I can't even express myself properly.
She is instituting something she calls the Standard Assistance
Program.......because
she and some others have decided that some breed Standards "are not
complete,
have a myriad of unnecessary words, are not direct in their meaning, leave
too many things
up for "interpretation" (right or wrong) or that they do not render a clear
written picture of
the breed." (note the quotation marks, please)
She goes on to say that most breed clubs do not have multi-group judges
included in the
process of writing their Standards. She "feels" judges should be assisting
in the process, ".
Since judges are the ones interpreting and applying the words in the
Standard on
a routine basis,"
She went on to say that her " purpose is not to write the Standard for the
breed
clubs, but to read, interpret and offer suggestions for better wording,
based on what
they are trying to say; to offer more clarity and understanding of their
Standard from
the perspective of a multi-group judge.
There could also be things we would feel important that they have not
included, or
are not logical as we know it from knowledge gained from many other breed
Standards,
or are generally too simplistic or too superfluous."
She has asked retired and active multi-group judges to volunteer to work on
this project.
She will select 5 judges to work on any specific standard that she (obviously
she...
who else?) has decided needs work, then she will coordinate the responses
of those 5 judges and submit them to the various breed clubs for
consideration........
I find her proposal to be so insulting, so outrageous, so condescending,
and so
offensive...I'm almost (but not quite) at a loss for words. Actually, I
have plenty to
say about it, none of it complimentary to or in favor of the
idea............of course, the
clubs won't have to made the changes...but..........
I can't help but wonder if she is doing this with AKC approval--probably
she is,
since it sounds like another half-assed thought from our fearless leaders,
but who
knows.............
OK gang.........what do you think about this idea?
>
> Peggy
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