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Originally Posted by Tx2Stepn  If a judge dq's a dog for being dyed it is a EX for a foreign substance in the coat and leads to a suspension from AKC. I can tell you that I believe that there was at least 1 dog being shown that I could tell was dyed and the judge did not DQ. I may be wrong, but it looked dyed to me. In my opinion the judge knows the circumstances of the dyed dq and was being nice by not dqing... |
You are correct it would be an EX and not a DQ because if a judge thinks the color is enhanced it's called a foreign substance so that is an EX not a DQ. Most experienced judges know when a dog is enhanced...I was talking to a judge once and was commenting on the color that came off on her hands after going over the yorkies one time LOL...Sometimes you can tell a yorkie is enhanced and sometimes you can't just depends on how well someone can do it LOL! A good portion of the specials are dyed. I saw on a website that offers color enhancing products on their website LOL...
Donna Bird