All I can say is, wow, Peggy-- with all due respect, I find this excoriatingly negative. Others on this list may even find it hurtful. Why? Robyn Futcher
<< Finishing dogs doesn't necessarily mean you know anything, either. Breeding a few Champions doesn't, either, but it is, maybe, a tad better than finishing what you bought, especially if what you bought wasn't a baby puppy. Beyond that one should be able to pretty consistently breed dogs that can finish and even more, breed and sell to someone else dogs that can finish them. I'm talking AKC here...we all know it isn't hard to finish a Cavalier in the AKC. Most of the judges haven't a clue anyway, and any dog of any breed will be made up if you take it around long enough. Having a background of exhibiting and/or breeding other breeds of dog will certainly be helpful. Having that background in cats or horses or gerbils or whatever will also be of help...not as much, but some. If that background was in other than AKC dogs there isn't any way to verify what anyone has actually accomplished, anyway...so anyone can say anything and we can believe it or not. And what was the measure of how successful you were, anyway....lots of champions? dozens of top 10 dogs? a best in show dog or two? or six? in what venue? Keep in mind the old question...what have you done for me lately? change it to "What have you accomplished in Cavaliers?" -- because in the end, that's what counts...what you've done in THIS venue and what you are continuing to do. Unless you were born yesterday, you've probably done something somewhere sometime...and so has almost everyone else. Years in another breed don't necessarily apply to Cavaliers, as many people find out.....correcting heads in one generation, for example. Keep to the point. It's what you're doing now, learning now, and how you're helping the breed now that matters...not so much what you did 10 or 15 years ago. And, in this country, if you have enough money and/or influence, you can finish dogs that nobody else even likes....and even do big winning with them. So keep working at it.>> -- ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 1999 by its original author.
