Blazingsaddles
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To text the vet asking if it’s ok to feed my dogs Camberwell carrots. Honest to god, it’s so dumb down.....
Crufts 2019, sorely tempted
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Clodagh
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I am just watching last nights. Assuming it is dog people watching, why do they assume we are all so ignorant?
Blazingsaddles
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I don’t mind Clare so much, but ex CBeebies presenters are pushing it. I didn’t like Peter Purves but at least he had some knowledge. It’s all a bit Playschool now.
Clodagh
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I hate it! Ot could be so interesting and educational. ðŸ˜
blackcob
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...did they just show a maremma when describing the white Swiss shepherd? D'oh!
AmyMay
Situation normal
Interesting that they didn’t show the GS moving.
Clodagh
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And why are Rottweilers sloped behind now? That is new isn't it?
I think Boxers and Dobes look much better docked! Or they need to do something about those awful curly tails.
AmyMay
Situation normal
Their tails are beautiful
Clodagh
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They are dreadful!
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I would think it is just ‘showing fashion’ to stack a Rottie like that now.....
I totally agree about boxers, dobes & rotties being docked, but that’s a very unpopular view nowadays 🙄
chaps89
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Was anyone else slightly shocked by the size of the lab yesterday? I don't have a dog anymore but I was watching with a friend and we were both surprised just how tubby it seemed.
I loved the water spaniel who won, he looked a lot of fun and the handler seemed so thrilled too.
I loved the water spaniel who won, he looked a lot of fun and the handler seemed so thrilled too.
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Ha ha a rant came up in my memories on Facebook yesterday, from a couple of years ago... I even read it in my head in Frank Kane’s voice (the dog show judge who commentates on Crufts)... describing a fat, unfit poorly muscled show greyhound as “fit as a fiddle without an ounce of fatâ€
Crufts is an abomination, I cannot understand the obsession about it....
Actually I need to edit that.... dog showing is an abomination... Crufts is just the example which gets media hype
Crufts is an abomination, I cannot understand the obsession about it....
Actually I need to edit that.... dog showing is an abomination... Crufts is just the example which gets media hype
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MurphysMinder
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I think he used the termsâ€fit for function†for the fat lab this year ! 😀
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Honestly Frank, I know you are a terrier man but really.... 😂😂
satinbaze
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Actually frank Kane is a gundog man, he bred American cockers.
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Oooo apologies you are so right! I wonder which all rounder I was thinking of....
Which doesn’t actually detract from the fact he cannot tell a fit healthy dog when he sees one 🙄
blackcob
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I'd entered Roscoe under him a couple of years ago but he came down with KC the week before the show, perhaps it was for the best. 
Clodagh
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How did you get on, SB?
splashgirl45
Lurcher lover
i like watching the other bits like agility and like the interviews with the winning dogs, love the name dave for the boxer.....he really did look like a dave to me....i like watching the hounds and terriers day and just hoping that the deerhound is shown as they are my favourite dog of all time...
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I'd entered Roscoe under him a couple of years ago but he came down with KC the week before the show, perhaps it was for the best.
Are you trying to say that perhaps I got a little carried away with my ranting? 😛😄
Derek Tattersall.... that’s who I was thinking of.... shocking how many of the all rounders I remember are no longer with us ☹ï¸
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satinbaze
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Thank you for asking. Girls showed beautifully but neither placed this year. Back today spending lots of money
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Well Blackcob I've just seen he is judging the hound group - that should be hilarious, particularly since another well known all-rounder has given best of breed in whippets to a bitch from the yearling class...... **head desk**
Blazingsaddles
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For me, good movement is paramount. I’m not sure if it’s the horse person in me or just years of seeing badly moving dogs at Crufts/lesser shows. Movement is the first thing I notice in whatever breed I study.
Cortez
Tough but Fair
Ha ha ha ha! The very idea that an American Cocker is a gundog!!!! (Yes, I know they are shown in the gundog group).
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Perhaps that's also a contributory factor to why he cannot identify a fit, sound dog....
satinbaze
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I quite agree movement is paramount. Unfortunately many judges can’t even spot lameness let alone good movement.
Blazingsaddles
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I know, that’s why showing dogs has become impossible for me to continue.
CorvusCorax
Justified & Ancient
Both of my dogs, particularly the older one, despite being upright and cobby and short coupled have a lovely, floating, extended gait offlead, which to me epitomizes the way the breed should move. But someone posts a video of a dog hock-walking at fast pace with a hinge in it's back, scrabbling along and pulling into the end of a long lead and it gets eleventybillion likes and comments.
Yeah I know, I've changed....
have a lovely, floating, extended gait offlead, which to me epitomizes the way the breed should move. But someone posts a video of a dog hock-walking at fast pace with a hinge in it's back, scrabbling along and pulling into the end of a long lead and it gets eleventybillion likes and comments.Yeah I know, I've changed....
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Holy crap - poor movement anyone? Yep, the greyhound!!!!
deb_l222
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I want the Sealyham Terrier to rule the world ðŸ˜