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Originally Posted by Woogie Man  Or, as has been said before, the right handler could finish a dead cat.
I agree that the show world has problems of its own and is more of a beauty pageant than a venue for evaluating breeding stock. Below is a bit copied from the Polish Kennel Club's (an FCI member) regulations. It seems to me a better approach to judging dogs than what is in place in America.
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Thank you Jim for posting what I've thought for some time and exactly what I told my friend when she and I were discussing dyeing dogs. Showing dogs too often has become a beauty and/or popularity/familiarity contest and not really about the best representative of the breed. If that is what is accepted and expected then so be it, but it does come across as hypocritical to hold others to standards one doesn't them self honor.