You can also access infodog and look up what certain judges did in the past. Because professional handlers aren't always listed it can sometimes be hard to tell for certain if a judge is political but it works well much of the time. As for finding judges that lack knowledge or those that put up altered dogs that is a lot harder unless you know what the majority of the dogs entered look like and/or if that owner or handler is the type that does everything they can to get a win. But it sometimes can help.
I'm a lot like Myra. I keep forgetting to write down which judges did what. I started my own book and was pretty good keeping at it for about 6 months then never wrote in it again. A little bit of the reason may have been because I soon found out that most judges really did not know what they were doing. They didn't have enough experience with Cavaliers to know what good Cavalier type was. And I'm definitely guilty of winning (or not) and having NO idea who the judge was! I find it very hard to focus on who is who and who does what when it really shouldn't matter. I KNOW it does, but it shouldn't. And for some reason it never occurred to me before that I was *supporting* some of these less desirable judges by ignorantly entering under them. I will have to be more careful in the future--if I can ever figure out which ones not to support! Laura Lang Roycroft Cavaliers ========================================================= "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.
