Well, if I had a choice between the two....I suppose that seeing a handler kneel to hand stack a cavalier is a lot less offensive to me than seeing anyone letting a bleached, dyed, and trimmed cavalier free stack on the end of the lead. There are worse things going on in the breed than hand stacking. Myra Savant
>From: "Janice M. Dansby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel List ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] show presentation! >Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 23:31:46 -0600 > >Shiena, Renee and Myra and others > >I posted a question to the list last fall after having attened a George >Alston seminar in which he insisted that we stack our Cavaliers. >Privately, he acknowledged to me and to Renee that those of us who show >Cavaliers have a tough job to do because, in his words, we have to >determine in advance whether or not the judge to whom we are showing on >any given day prefers hand stacking on the floor or natural stacking on >the floor. As any of you who have been paying attention knows, he >advocates hand stacking every breed on the floor. > >The experience of showing our dogs (independently of what George Alston >advocates) totally confused me, as last fall was my first year showing >my two show quality boys. I have always heard that Cavaliers should be >stacked naturally, but I ended up stacking them both ways, never feeling >very comfortable stacking them on my knees but sometimes doing it anyway >that way because that's the way most of the pros were doing it -- and >winning points! And some of those whom I observed doing this were well >versed in showing, even judging Cavaliers. I won't do it again next >year! > >Janice Dansby >Oklahoma City > >========================================================= >"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 2002 by its original author. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ========================================================= "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 2002 by its original author.
