Hi Denise,
I read with interest you unfortunate day at the show.
I know exactly what you are going through.
Every week I take my longhaairs out here in Australia and hope that
there may be at least one judge who will stand up and have some guts
and put my boy up. I manage to get the Challenges and Best of Breed
and occassionally will get a class in Group, but as for the big
awards like Best in Group or an In show award they a few and far
between.

I actually had a judge last year give me Runner up in Group. boy was
I shocked. When I went and asked him he said the dog had everything
he was looking for and he could move.

I have had many Judges come up to me and tell me after judging that
in structure my longhair is better that the short hairs that were
shown. BUT they still wont put him up.

Don't give up it is worth the effort and it will only take 1 dog to
start winning and the judges will start to take notice then. I just
hope that day is not to far away.

---- Original Message ----
From: denise.mclean@...
To: Weimaraner_Longhaired@...
Subject: [Weimaraner_Longhaired] Bad judging experience
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:41:41 -0000

>Had a really bad experience at the dog show this past weekend.
>Wanted to share and suggest others not give their entry money to the
>judge.
>
>Went to the show with 3 LHs. Jake - 8 months, Cooper - 10 months
>and Porsche - 22 months. There were 4 other Weims showing - all SH,
>all nice dogs. Jake lost to a very nice dog in the JP class.
>Cooper lost WM so Jake and Cooper went in together for RWM. The
>judge looked at them, asked if they were both 10 months old (??) and
>then informed us that she was WITHHOLDING RESERVE because "they were
>too tall and too immature". Yes, Cooper is tall but within the
>standard, Jake is no mini either. Yes, they are immature - they are
>puppies afterall. But to withhold reserve???? She was obviously
>making a statement about not giving the LHs ANYTHING. I was shocked
>and quite upset. I've had alot of judges that were very supportive
>but none that were like this. I talked to the show secretary the
>next day (who is head of the Breed STandards committee and a
>supporter of LHs) and he just shook his head and suggested I write a
>letter to CKC.
>Meanwhile, this would be a judge to avoid. Terry Carter of Calgary,
>Alberta.
>
>Denise
>
>

Deborah Neumann
Happylea Kennel
Home of Weimaraner's both long and short haired,
Australian Kelpies, Jack Russells and Tibetan Spaniel.