Re: [pyrnet] Re: Bathing (long!!)

["Linda Weisser" <lmweisser@olywa.net>]

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From: <JGentzel@aol.com>

<<Obviously in some countries where numbers are greater and there are more
Specialties with more French Judges then I could be penalised for having
bathed dogs. >>

Don't think so!!  If you did it would be an individual not the French
system.
 I think you got duped and someone was having fun with you at your expense.
>>

I'll sure agree with Joe here.  I have shown at 7 specialties under French
judges (4 US, 3 Canada)  My dog was BOB at three of them, at a fourth a dog
I was handling was BOS.  All of these dogs were clean, as were all of the
many dogs at the shows. (2 of them were Ntnl specialites)  The ones that I
know well were bathed with a good cattle shampoo with bluing.  They were
not cream rinsed, which I consider anathema in this breed.  Nor were they
powdered or hair sprayed.  They were brushed and combed out completely and
were mat free. They had their feet trimmed and made "neat".  Their whiskers
were intact.

In 1980 Mansencal judged the US National Specialty.  The day after the show
we were drivng him to watch an all breed show, and I asked him what he
thought of the grooming and handling of the American dogs.  He said that he
very much appreciated the clean and brushed out dogs.  It made it
altogether more pleasant to touch them.  However, he was *very* disdainful
of the poofed, powdered, sprayed exhibits.  And when Mansencal is
disdainful, his opinion can hardly be mistaken!!  He also said that he
appreciated the handling and presentation of the dogs.  Remarking that it
is much easier to evaluate and judge dogs when a judge can see them
clearly.

Linda