How did the dog shows become as they are today? Or is it just a sign that I am old and worn out, when I don’t recognize myself anymore in what was originally an assessment of the particular dog and nothing else? Today, dog showing resembles more and more a strategy game – and if I wanted to play like that, I could play “Risk” or something similar instead ...

Today it seems to be so much more about all the things around. One needs to know the right people, to "suck up" to the right people, dogs will be pushed and marketed. Dogs are promoted and spoken well about, and dogs are talked down, by the judges, which in others’ eyes do seem to be knowledgeable. It’s more common to listen to what another judge said about a dog, than to really have an own opinion of the dog when judging. Maybe I'm cynical, but I find it’s more and more about the people in the sport than that the dogs count in themselves...and then everything is anyway going in the wrong direction, or?

If I could wish for something, it would be that the judge was able to "clear and clean up" the brain before judging, that no one would recognize a single dog or person, but simply just judging the dog standing in front. Of course, impossible - but so much more exciting it would be, and so many more good dogs that would come up, I think.

I've heard myself a judge saying, that a dog which became the “Dog of the Year” one year, should not be shown anymore, since once it had won “Dog of the Year” its’ career, or the dog, was “finished” anyway. How can that be? During a year it becomes “in” or “right” to put up a certain dog, but the following year something new must be put up – also if the dog that was winning the year before is equally, or even more, amazing the next year? And what about that a judge must "allocate" and “divide” the awards between the exhibitors - because you cannot give everything to one exhibitor… But, if it is precisely that breed-type you like as a judge, you should put up the same handler/exhibitor, even if it means that you would get fewer entered dogs next time. You do not become a judge because everyone must "love" you, but your job is to put up the best dog, the one you think is corresponding nearest possible to the standard - not so difficult really, or? And believe me, the exhibitors do see through this - always, both those who win and those who lose ...

Sometimes people say that exhibitors do not have the same respect for the judges anymore as they had once upon a time, but maybe that's because there are not many with authority anymore as they were before? I may be wrong, but it feels like before the successful breeders, who had done incredibly much for their breeds, that became judges. Perhaps it was also harder before to become a judge, today training courses and seminars for aspiring judges are held quite often, perhaps too often? I do not know - but today it seems that people don’t have the same respect for the judge's opinion as before. It could also be that we simply know too little about the judges who are in the ring, it's just a name. Rarely do we know what breed they have themselves and what they have accomplished before they became judges. Some judges don’t even have a dog and I can understand that it is difficult to be away to judge often and to have a dog too, if you live by your own. But if I had to choose between being a dog owner or being a judge, I certainly know what I would choose ... to be without a dog would be the same as "the death" for me.

I don’t have any answers on how we could return to the point where the dog and nothing else is judged - or is it just me who thinks like this - everyone else might think it's just fine as it is now?

 

karin å

9 oktober 2016 23:55

Hej. Tycker att du helt rätt. Det är hunden som ska bedömas inget annat.Jag som amatör tycker också att kritiken ska vara mer utförligt skriven. karin

 

Madeleine Bergendahl

10 oktober 2016 15:13

Mycket bra skrivet!! Håller helt med.

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Gerd-Astrid Flenstad

10 oktober 2016 16:32

Godt skrevet.Det er vel på høy tid at disse problemene blir satt under lupen. For det er problemer at hundeutstillinger på en måte er blitt politikk. Dommerne har fått tildelt altfor stor makt i ringen, når det er blitt slik det blir beskrevet i denne bloggen. Utstillingsmiljøet, i hvert fall i Norge-Sverige, er såpass gjennomsiktig, at vi vet hva som foregår.
Oppdrettere som er dommere, burde heller ikke ha mulighet til å stille ut sine hunder selv. Mange dommere er, naturlig nok, blitt gode venner, og da blir det helt feil å stille ut for hverandre. Vi ser situasjoner hvor det er svært vanskelig å tro noe annet enn at de gjør hverandre tjenester ved å dømme opp hverandres hunder. Når vi har sett slike eksempler, er det ikke rart at antallet påmeldte hunder er for nedadgående! Det er faktisk enkelte dommere som er årsak til dette. Enkelte dommere trekker påmeldinger, og de som ikke gjør det, har seg selv å takke! Dette vet de fleste utstillere, men det er på tide at problemet blir gjort noe med.

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