says WHAT’S THE MAIN THING JUDGES OVERLOOK WHILE JUDGING YOUR BREED? Now Bullmastiffs the size they are small and the heads aren’t very large either. They are to be massive not big like a Mastiff but of size. —Pam (Berg) Osborne
Border Terriers—first line in standard otter head. That is not a head with a lot of stop and the top skull is flat. A lot of judges also do not know how to correctly span, and it is not degree of span but are they spanable? —Anonymous Samoyed—judges overlook the fact that this is an athletic working dog and much more than just a pretty face with a lot of fur! —Lori Chapek-Carleton Papillons—the overall dog, elegant fine-boned and dainty, they get hung up on markings, coat and fringe. —Lou Ann King
Keeshond—texture of coat. American Eskimo—length to height ratio of body. —Arlene Grimes
Pharaoh Hound—there is an epidemic in judging where exaggeration/extremes (too long of bodies, too much rear angulation, high-set long ewe necks, TRAD), are rewarded above the structural soundness that is correct for this breed. This breed is supposed to be only slightly longer than tall, not rectangular and have moderate sweep of stifle, not an extremely angled rear, for example. Correctly proportioned and balanced Pharaoh Hounds are inherently not flashy or extreme in any way, and they are being overlooked in favor of the more great American show dog variety that we are seeing more and more often in the winners circles. —Emily Kerridge Clumber Spaniels—many judges either go nuts over my dogs/bitches because they are very typey (balanced and can move too!) or don’t know what to do with them and put up inferior dawgs because mine look so different. I breed for type! —Anonymous The number one thing judges overlook when judging any breed is the dog and not the person on the other end of the lead. I have been showing and winning for a lot of years, but there are too many times when less than quality dogs are put up because of the professional dog show handler presenting them! —Anonymous Siberian Husky—relying on side gait and not look- ing for single tracking as called on in our breed standard. —Anonymous
Doberman Pinscher is my breed and the judges today can’t find breed type. —Anonymous
Pug—legs well under and they should have forechest. —Anonymous
Miniature Pinscher—the number one thing almost all judges overlook is that there is a complete dog and not just a dog with hackney like action. This breed is supposed to be a compact dog with strong rear drive, a level topline with a tailset that should never be below the 12:00 position, they should be clean coming and going. The Min Pin should also own the ring, they are high spirited with fearless animation and should present that when in the ring. Judges overlook on a regular basis that this breed is far from what it is supposed to be because judges have forced breeders to breed for hackney in order to win which has caused great detriment to the breed. —Anonymous Parson Russell Terrier—they miss the proper leg to length ratio. The breed is approximately square and not long and low. —Anonymous Norwich Terrier—I think the #1 trait that judges miss is that the Norwich is supposed to be square. This means there needs to be some leg under the dog so you can get a square dog. If you were to shorten up some of the lower legged Nor- wich to be square, it would be an unnatural out of balance shortness. —Anonymous
French Bulldog—that our standards says 28 inches and they never check! —Anonymous
Chinese Shar-Pei is my breed. My pet peeve is a judge that peels the dog’s eye back. I’m assuming looking for entropion and then wonders why the dog shuts their eyes. —Anonymous
Italian Greyhound—the actual written breed standard. —Anonymous
Number one problem with new Papillon judges is proper movement and lack of reach and drive. —Susan Nikkel
My breeds are Bulldogs and Bullmastiffs. Starting with the Bulldogs I would the dog right now it’s who on the end of the lead. But most handlers have no idea how to show a Bull- dog and that also goes for the owners. When you look at the Bulldog hands are on the face the front end is so stretch wide and so is the back end. You should be able to see the rear legs through the front legs. Also the toplines are bad they shouldn’t be flat were as they use to say if you could put a cup and saucer on the back and when they move it is wrong.
PBGV—the height to length ratio! —Anonymous
Papillon—soundness, they were meant to move like the Spaniel they are descended from. —Anonymous
French Bulldog—they miss outline and silhouette, which also includes upsweep of jaw and layback of nosepad. —Laura and David Hagey
130 • S HOW S IGHT M AGAZINE , O CTOBER 2017
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