BUDAPEST: FCI EUROPEAN DOG SHOW 2021
European Dog Show for the first time, and in 2013 they were granted the honor to hold the FCI World Dog Show. Each time it has happened at the very same location, Hungexpo, a big complex of event halls on the outskirts of Budapest. It is a very nice area for a show of this size, with plenty of parking around. The two main halls are very huge and the hall where most of the rings were located was very bright inside. Everything inside and outside gave a clean impression all day long. Compared to pre- vious editions, the number of trade stands, in and outside the halls, was very limited and decreased from largely over 100 for the 2013 Show to about only 20, plus some small stands outside, mainly providing food and local items for sale. In mid-win- ter, having a trade stand is risky. It is not cheap to hire a place and to know that if the weather is bad there will be hardly any visitors. With all the “ifs” in mind, it could easily result in a serious loss. Fortunately, the weather was dry, cold but fine, though nobody was able to predict this weeks before the event when the booking had to be made. Royal Canin was the main spon- sor and was dominantly present in every hall. The rings were of average size, and in between the rings the space was sometimes very crowded. With COVID in mind, this was sometimes even somewhat frighten- ing. Fortunately, contrary to the World Dog Show of Brno, the wearing of masks was very well followed. Only from time to time were there some clusters of people who did not follow the rules correctly. In general, however, it was okay. Whether this had to do with the organization, the discipline of the exhibitors, or the fear of the new Omicron wave was hard to tell. A minor point was the catalog. Cata- logs are no longer given to every exhibitor, as they can now consult a digital version online. If you want a printed catalog, you have to order it and pay extra for it. The catalog itself was not very easy to use. Looking for a breed was very confusing, as there was no alphabetical breed list. If you were looking for a certain breed and where to find it, you had to look at the list of judges, which meant that you had to look at all of them in detail, unless it was a judge listed on top. And to make it more complicated, the judges were not ordered alphabetically but according to the ring number! Furthermore, under their names, the breeds were listed in Hungarian on the left and in English on the right, but only if there was a different English translation for the breed name. When I was looking
Pontos V Do Rincao Violento
Ovation De Chester
Echo Dechien Escuda Pour Garcon
Bottom Shaker The Greatest Picture
Alcano De Santa Isabel
Blitseinshlag Yars
Invidia Dios Mistero Di Amore
Mecseki Bundas Aranyos
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