European winner - France 2002

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Now, and here is my own opinion, the European show had been the biggest scandal of the year for the CsV in France!!!
Ph. BESCOND

Philippe, you are such optimist! ))) It is only a small part of a huge
problem: the titles "World Winner" and "European Winner" are loosing their
importance. There were problems this year and also two years ago as you can
read in article writtten by Monika Soukupova "Czechoslowakian wolfdog on a
World Dog Show or what all can happen" ...

I think the main problem is: FCI wanted to have fair dog shows. You know
that an expert in this breed knows all dogs that are in the ring. So there
will be always people that will say: the dog won because the breeder is a
good friend of the judge. It was one of the reasons why FCI decided to
choose only people who have nothing to do with wolfdogs (OK, the judges
judged this breed but you can't see them on the bonitations or club shows).
FCI forgot two things: also such judges can be good friends of a breeder so
this is not a good solution of this problem. And second: you can't call them
experts... A good judge, also if he is not an expert, can be a great judge
on a international or national dog show. But he will not be able to choose
the best dog from among 20 others. Especially when there are the best
representatives of the breed in the ring. The worst thing is that sometimes
such judge gives the main titles to dogs that would have huge problems to
get the note "good" when an expert would judge them....

But don't worry: next year the European Dog Show will took place in
Slovakia. The judge will be Sona Bognarova. So at least after this dog show
we will speak about preferences and not about ignorance of breed
standard.... )

Greetings,
Margo