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...if you encountered a judging situation like this:
Fighting (verbally) over setups on Friday...with your co-judge... :agrue:
Finding no common ground on important items like creeping, handling on marks, etc....with your co-judge...
Having a co-judge that believes that any handler running more than one dog would automatically start with a 2-pt deficit since they "have an advantage over the handler that only comes to the line once"? :?
Having a co-judge that announces to the handlers that they "...don't want to see dogs bumbling around out there and coming into a mark on the downwind side; this is a marking test and we expect dogs to go straight to their marks." The test is a walk-up triple, with the two memory birds exactly in-line, 50 yards apart with a 30 mph crosswind. :shock:
Announcing to the handlers that if your dog is not in the water on a mark by a specific patch of grass at the edge of a pond, you're "out"...and if you have to handle to get the dog into the water by that landmark, and you've already handled once, you're "out" as well... :bad-words:
Someone who, during the last series, was heard to say: "Let's get this over with...I'm tired of these people." :barf:
I'm fortunate that in the almost 19 years that I've been judging, I've never been paired with anyone as "anti-dog" and "anti-handler" as someone like this. Sounds to me like they need to do everyone a favor and stay out of the chair. :grab: !!!!!!!!!!
Keith Griffith
Fighting (verbally) over setups on Friday...with your co-judge... :agrue:
Finding no common ground on important items like creeping, handling on marks, etc....with your co-judge...
Having a co-judge that believes that any handler running more than one dog would automatically start with a 2-pt deficit since they "have an advantage over the handler that only comes to the line once"? :?
Having a co-judge that announces to the handlers that they "...don't want to see dogs bumbling around out there and coming into a mark on the downwind side; this is a marking test and we expect dogs to go straight to their marks." The test is a walk-up triple, with the two memory birds exactly in-line, 50 yards apart with a 30 mph crosswind. :shock:
Announcing to the handlers that if your dog is not in the water on a mark by a specific patch of grass at the edge of a pond, you're "out"...and if you have to handle to get the dog into the water by that landmark, and you've already handled once, you're "out" as well... :bad-words:
Someone who, during the last series, was heard to say: "Let's get this over with...I'm tired of these people." :barf:
I'm fortunate that in the almost 19 years that I've been judging, I've never been paired with anyone as "anti-dog" and "anti-handler" as someone like this. Sounds to me like they need to do everyone a favor and stay out of the chair. :grab: !!!!!!!!!!
Keith Griffith