At 06:20 AM 07/14/2001 EDT, you wrote:
>all the pictures I see and when we go into the ring no one else has wild hair
>Lynda
We don't trim, we don't strip - we bathe, we condition, comb and brush, use
a little doggie blanket to help coat lie flat.... We too see most if not
all other dogs looking most elegant - judges are telling us that the dogs
need to look elegant, not like an "unmade bed" <g>. On some of ours the
coat is thick and heavy and so, although being relatively free from wave,
makes the dog look stuffy.... We are being told by judges to trim the
dogs, that they are lovely but are not going to win the way they should be
as long as they have huge slippers, and thick coats....
What a shame....but, years ago when my daughter showed a Bouvier I asked a
Best in Show judge why the difference between the standard which described
a rough tousled looking coat, and the ring, where all of the Bouv's were
sculpted, stripped, etc. Her comment was most telling - they need the
elegant silhoutte to compete effectively in group.
I am beginning to pray for dogs with less coat....LOL
Hilarie
Hilarie Gibbs-Sykes
Mel Sykes
Hob Nob Cavaliers
Sarasota, FL
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