Thread: Fat Labs

Good question @Pointer...well, they are SUPPOSED to judge to the breed standard!!!...as in, does this example meet the tenets of the breed standard more/less than the next, and so on...the difficulty for judges in this country is that the exhibits are either what some call NZ Brittanys or American type...the majority of Brittanys here are a mix of both types...so when you show an EB, most judges will not know what they are looking at...so to be fair to them, I guess you can sort of understand why a judge would not give my male a challenge...simply because the dog just does not look like anything the judge had seen before...but back to the subject!!!! A minority breed in my experience is rarely ever put up in the group line up...I feel that it is because some judges possibly feel that it is probably better to take the safe option, even if in their mind and hearts the minority breed animal is superior and is truly correct to the breed standards. Then there was that incident in Sydney...when an European judge disqualified every Brittany in the ring because none were correct to standard...he told my spaniel friend, well that is that, I will never be asked to judge here again!!