There has been a political revolution in the metaphoric halls of the SV recently, and many have wondered how it would affect the dog itself. The judging (of adult dogs, especially) at the Sieger Show 2003 was watched carefully for clues to the answer. In this year’s “Impressions”, I am emphasizing those Gebrauchshundklasse results, from …
Revised December 2011. It seems that every-other trip I make to Taiwan coincides with renewed national (or nation-to-nation) turmoil. That island country was once known by foreigners as Formosa (“beautiful island”), and I still catch myself using that name, a holdover from the days I was a star geography student in the 1940s. In the …
Revised December 2011. Proportions, Leg-length Ratios, and Breed Standards: Using the Vizsla and the German Shepherd Dog as Examples In early 2003, there began an argument in the circles of Vizsla fanciers in the Vizsla Club of America, VCA. This Hungarian breed of dog is a moderately-sized and agile hunter well suited to “upland” field …
Revised December 2012. Sometimes the seasoned exhibitor fails to remember how long it took him to get the hang of things when he was first going to dog shows. To the first-time spectator and for some time afterward, the activity at a show is confusing. After a few discussions with someone who knows the ropes, …
Continued from Part 1 Conformation classes, run the same way you would see at a UKC show but with a much larger ring, were judged by J. Ray Johnson. Following his awards, the dogs went either to the ATT tent or came back one at a time for me to do the …
First Presa Canario National Specialty by Fred Lanting First Presa Canario National Specialty Report by Fred Lanting The first national specialty show of the reorganized Presa club in America known as the United Perro de Presa Canario Club was held on the grounds of Purina Farms near St. Louis, MO. This …
The title of this article stems from a discussion list or website group in the U.K. with the name “Let’s Talk Breeding”. One of its subscribers said she couldn’t “sit by and listen to foolishness without speaking up.” While the forum is admirably open-ended, “designed to allow all sides of …
At the beginning of December, after attending the big camelid (alpacas, mostly) festival in Arequipa and the 2003 Peru Sieger Show in Lima, I traveled to a new country for me, Bolivia. This is a country approximately the size of Texas, but would be bigger than Alaska and Texas combined if it were flattened out. …
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Revised December 2011. It was a long time in coming, but I finally was able to get to mainland China to judge. I was originally scheduled to judge China’s first Sieger Show a few years earlier, but at that time, political tempers on both sides of the Taiwan Straits flared, as they do all too …