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Originally Posted by jencar98  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. |
Correct, it becomes a contest of the handlers' expertise and not about the dog.