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Old March 11th, 2005, 04:15 PM
Beetlecat Beetlecat is offline
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I used to show cattle, and it's the same. No matter what the breed standard says, and no matter how good your animal is, half the battle is enticing the right judge into the ring.

I've seen families win year after year simply because they were the people picking what judge would be at the show and they knew what he/she wanted to see. I've seen judges pick animals with major faults simply because that fault was 'in style' currently and they didn't think about what it could do to the animal in the future. I prefer judges that actually propogate that breed themselves because they tend to be a little more realistic.

This 'favoritism', you could call it, is actually why (amongst other reasons) I'm not a fan of purebred dogs.
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