From: kathy_buetow@QMS1.life.uiuc.edu (Kathy Buetow)
Subject: Re: Show points and the mass of confusion
Followup-To: rec.pets.dogs
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:42:54 GMT

In article <5079.83.uupcb@cutting.hou.tx.us>,
kathleen.brewer@cutting.hou.tx.us (Kathleen Brewer) wrote:
> 
> TO: kathy_buetow@QMS1.life.uiuc.edu
> Followup-To: rec.pets.dogs
> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
> 
> KB>>
> KB>>    - To up the number of entries so as to help increase the number of
> KB>>      points available to be won.
> KB>>
> KB>>    - You *really* dislike someone and want to make it harder for their
> KB>>      dog to win points.  Don't laugh - it has probably happened.  Kind
> KB>>      of like cutting your nose off to spite your face, but some people...
> 
> KB>Aaaawwwww, now c'mon.  The good sports in the world of dog
> KB>shows would *never* consider doing anything as nasty, spiteful,
> KB>sneaky and underhanded as this.........................would they ?
> 
> Don't laugh, I have seen first hand how this can happen. In some breeds
> the people can get pretty nasty. I have seen them pick up thier arm
> bands and as thier class is anounced turn in the arm band, and stand
> ringside with the dog, breaking the major.
> When my Boston was being shown by a handler(she finished in 4 months)
> She would have finished sooner except for one lady, Every time she saw
> Rod ring side with Sable she would turn in her arm band. Her reasoning
> behind this was that her bitch could not beat mine so why even walk in
> the ring. The problem with this is that it always caused the pts to
> drop, which made it take longer for Sab to finish. Had she just showed
> her dog, Sab would have finished at been out of the way alot faster. The
> woman was stupid!
> 
> Kathleen.Brewer@cutting.hou.tx.us
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Kathleen,

   What you managed to miss (and delete) in my message was the whole row
of ;-)'s that I had typed under my (very) sarcastic note !!  I also signed
it with
a (tee-hee) ....just to be sure people understood that I was not totally
naive !!

   I've seen much, much, much worse than dogs standing ringside when
entered.  
How about dogs being "substituted" and shown as another dog, dogs with gay
tails
that have been surgically altered by cutting the muscle, dogs that have
ears that
should stand erect that have had wire implanted in their ears to hold them
erect, 
shelties and collies with "leaded ears", dogs in breeds which are to be
shown in a 
"natural state" being scissored and clippered extensively, dogs which are
mismarked 
and/or miscolored being "dyed" for show, cryptorchid and monorchid dogs
that have 
had implants to "replace" missing testicles.................the list goes
on and on as 
there are dozens and dozens of ways that people have found to "cheat" in
the
dog show "game".  

    Unfortunately, these same "cheaters" eventually end up cheating someone
else and cheating their breed when they eventually breed altered dogs and
pass
along  poor genes to future generations !!!  (See current discussion on
Floppy-
Eared GSDs).

    My apologies to all who misunderstood my sarcasm.

Kathy
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Katwala Australian Cattle Dogs
Kathy_Buetow@QMS1.life.uiuc.edu
"Australian Cattle Dogs are not just a breed....they're a way of life !!!"