Carol, this is so sad. I remember when Beardies were starting in AKC and being
described as "what someone who says they want a Collie (or OES) really wants".
Now they call Cavaliers "what someone who says they want a cocker really wants".
It's scary.
-- Joanne Opel
Kilbrook
Ringwood, NJ
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"Carol G." wrote:
> raining classes I taught and started
> watching them in the ring. (This was in Canada, way before AKC took
> them in.) They reminded me so much of Beardies in their happy
> attitude, the natural coat and silly slippers, the way they were
> never stacked or strangled. I watched them for years before I
> finally got one nearly 6 years ago. And then AKC accepted the breed.
> And I saw happening to Cavaliers, with even greater speed, what had
> happened to Beardies. Now the silly slippers are "neatened", the
> flowing ears sculpted and trimmed straight across at the bottom, the
> coat carefully (but not invisibly) shaped. Now they, too, are shown
> by handlers as much as by owners, are stacked and positioned, and
> judges get impatient when a Cavalier on the table wants to kiss
> rather than stay still. And they speed around the rings with their
> leads held straight above their heads. And I want to cry.
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