European winner - France 2002

[mijke]

Hi Pavel and others,
I can subscribe a lot of your mail. I don't even go to shows to "hunting"
the titles, but to see a lot of dogs of the same breed and to meet a lot of
their owners. But I even know that everey judge have their own personal
opinion and interpretation of the standard of the total image of a breed.
(and I don't always agree with their intrepetation!)
I agree completely your statement that "Excellent" is the result for dogs,
which are very very near to ideal of breed. But in reality , for every race
is it doesn't happen in that way in shows. (Also not for my dogs; they got
many times an exelent , and in my honest personal opinion: they didn't
deserve it!) And I think this way, this manner is real very bad for the
total population of a breed.

In CsW I am a layman and "starter", but I don't think it is a big difference
with other breeds in this way. Shows today serve in many cases only for
comercial interests of some breeders. Thats's one of the reasons that a lot
of new owners of my puppy's don't want to go to official shows.
So I am glad that in Holland there are also "family days" of some breeding
clubs, for all the owners of dogs of that breed. With a funny programme and
official judges who can (onofficial) judge your dog if you want.
So you can, as a breeder, have a image of a bigger population of your breed.
But personaly I think it is tedious that is is nescesarry to do it in this
way.

In my opinion there is also a big difference in every breed between
"showdogs" and ''workingdogs". In a lot of breeds there is a lot of
difference between the type (exterior) of that dogs. (In the Newfoundlander
population there are even "showdogs" who can't swim because of their show-
fur!) Personal I think that difference is a very bad devellopment between
every race.
I am very curious about how this is in the CsW population, can anybody tell
me ?

Thanks for your reaction!
Best regards,
Mijke