Why Is It?
Why is it that...
Newcomers to the Breed always ask your advice and then ignore it?
People rush to use a top-winning Dog at stud, without considering how
appalling his ancestors looked?
As soon as you have placed an advert in the paper to sell the last puppy
in the litter, but before it has been published, you get 'phone calls from
three people who want one?
Some exhibitors can win CCs with a "sack of potatoes" on the end of a
lead?
The best constructed puppy in the litter always has the worst coat?
There is never a Stud Dog good enough to mate to your Champion
Bitch?
Some people who own the best dogs are the worst Judges?
The puppy you sold because he only had one testicle at twelve weeks,
has two by fourteen weeks?
Exhibitors from "up North" think there are too many Shows in the South
and vice versa?
A puppy with a dead-level topline at eight weeks has a roller-coaster
topline by six months?
The litter is born two days too late to enter at a Championship Show in six
months time?
Other people choose such daft names to register for the puppy that you
have decided to buy from them?
The Kennel Club take sets of CCs away from Shows that are popular and
get the best entries (e.g. Three Counties & WELKS)?
The same old Judges come round time and again?
People continue to enter under Judges when the result is a foregone
conclusion?
Some Judges insist on swapping their first and second placed dogs at
the last minute?
You've just won your first Open Class and the Ticket goes to the Puppy?
The list of next years' Judges in the latest Kennel Gazette is always a
disappointment?
The top breeder always has a new puppy to bring out at the same time
as you?
Some people never learn?
ANONYMOUS
January 1998