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Being More Flexible in the Show Ring

 

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As a Judge, I do place a lot of emphasis on how the dog looks moving around the ring and how well it covers ground smoothly, efficiently and easily. I think movement is super important and I want that correct movement in the winners of all my classes. However, sometimes this just does not happen and a dog comes into the ring a little untrained and a little unaware about where he is going, but he does move well enough to show me that this dog would be terrific when he was finally trained for presentation. If I had other better movers, the dog would be used and placed in the class and everyone would be happy, but what if this dog who was great looking in structure and moved (in his few steps forward) exactly how I wanted him to and perhaps the rest of the class was not so good in conformation and had less of the Dachshund style that we all should be looking for. Would I place the dog who was not trained OVER the well-trained but not quite as good ones in that class? I am afraid I would always be drawn to the one that I would breed to and the untrained, but better moving (in the few steps I saw), dog that really filled my eye. My job is to fill my final line up with dogs who do have all the style, quality and movement that says they are out there looking and fulfilling their role and who has the conformation, style and movement (even in a few steps!!) as a great Dachshund should always have.
 
I realize that showing in conformation is not a division that means that every Dachshund is always showing, all the time, and sometimes we have to use our heads and really pick out the dog you would use in your own breeding program. This is not a contest that determines that the one still showing wins the Class, but sometimes we do have to think about which one would help our breeding line and, in my opinion anyway, that is why I am in the center of the Ring picking out the Winners. Nowhere in the AKC Dachshund Standard does it say that they have to be on and showing ALL of the time, but you, as a Judge, have to pick out the best in each class that you can determine which one you would use to start that next generation of winners. Judging Dachshunds is not for the faint-hearted and the Dachshund’s goal in being a great one does not mean pleasing you with each step, but it does mean showing you that the Dachshund does think that way of himself no matter what he seems to be doing in the Show Ring.
 
This whole conversation started with someone stating that a Dachshund, being shown, did not return on his own to the Judge and was carried back to where the Judge was standing. In my opinion, that dog would not have been the winner for me that day, but, if it had returned on its own power, it just might have been. Returning to the Judge is something that does require a better temperament and is something our DCA Standard is clear about. However, if he had returned on his own power, he would still be under consideration from me as a Winner if he moved as I wanted him to. We have to realize that showing dogs is not a reality show where the one showing the longest always wins, but instead is a way for us, as Judges, to make the hard choices of which dogs should be used for breeding. We want excellent conformation recognized by the Judge and we want the Judge to also look for the movement that we require from our Top Winners. As I have stated before, sometimes due to lack of training, the dog does not perform that great movement all the time and we have to look for it. Remember, these show dogs are ‘animals’ and not people and that other things do enter their mind most of the time. Our job in showing these animals is for the Judge to see them move, on their own, and determine if it does, indeed, move nicely and efficiently around the Show Ring. Another thing we have to remember is that dogs, and especially Dachshunds as members of the Hound Group, do not really care what the owners want them to do, but think they have a better plan which is more fun for them, but not so much fun for Judges and other people trying to make these decisions by watchinging them stack and move around the Show Ring .
 
Worst of all is bad temperament which is horible for all concerned, because the DCA Standard in the USA  demands that the Dachshund be brave to the point of rashness in meeting dogs and people. If you have dogs who are afraid of everyone and won’t gait to them, but you think you can get that temperament good enough that it can slide through the Show Ring and barely get by, what are you gaining? You are adding that temperament to your bloodline and not getting rid of it at all. I know I am accused of being against certain things, but bad health and bad temperament are two things that I would not EVER add to my bloodline. That is my reason to not breed to them as that is still adding, in my mind, bad temperament back into my bloodline and that is what I NEVER wanted to develop in the dogs I raised. Most people can keep the scared dogs that don’t move as they should as pets, but you should never add them back into your bloodline as that is just making the poor movement spread even wider among the dogs that you keep showing. Despite what we say, that scared movement is always there and the scaredness is always going to be there as it is hereditary. Once you add it back in a breeding situation, that poor temperament and scared, shaking movement is always going to be there no matter when it appears. Many dogs have great temperaments and are fine for showing and moving around the Show Ring as young puppies, but that temperament can show up at any time after the bitches have that first season or the dog really matures. Many people overlook this and just say it is her acting squirelly and silly and she LOVED to show as a puppy or they just never think about it again which just keeps it back there to always re-appear in the next generation forever. This is what you do not want to happen.
 
I have been showing and breeding a long time and so can tell the difference between an untrained, but happy great-moving dog and a scared one who is really afraid of the Judge and will not come anywhere close to where that Judge is waiting to see them move. The scared one will not go up to judges or other people he doesn’t know and he or she won’t return to the Judge and, with his ears pinned back and looking around shaking, he or she does not ever go down and back and return to where the Judge who is just waiting to look at it in motion. There are two choices and Judges are there to determine where the differences lie between the failure to show that movement in the Dachshund Ring.
 
In the Dachshund Show Ring, most are great movers and cover the ground easily with strong, true motion and with the will to go stronger and longer in the background and look great doing it. What happens is that, in very few cases, the dog who hasn’t had so much training takes a few steps and then jumps and hops around the Show Ring, but shows that his motion is correct and he is just a little untrained, but willing to be a great mover when he does realize what the handler wants. This I can deal with and can place the dog, even with needing a little more training, where it belongs in the Class and that, as usual, depends on what the competition looks like. That is one you can use in the class for following the Standard. Remember though, sometimes the dog IS spooky and just refuses to use himself because he is so uneasy and off in temperament and that is something that a breeder/judge be able to tell the difference between the spooky and the untrained. There is a huge difference between being AFRAID to return to the Judge and just being untrained and full of himself. Our job, as breeders and Judges, is to KNOW the difference between the two.
 
As Judges, in looking at these moving Dachshunds, remember that we are picking dogs to make Dachshunds better dogs and to be more successful in the Show Ring and the field. I always go for the look that appeals to me and want them to have that easy, ground-covering motion that covers ground smoothly and with the ease we want to see when the dog is trained and ready to own the ground he is standing on. However, nowadays, with smaller entries being shown, many dogs are not so trained and ready to go and many are a little new to the Show Ring and that we, again as Judges, need to be aware of what we want to see in motion. Sometimes, the untrained one IS the best mover in the Class and, if the conformation and style also makes it the best as well, that new one should be the one that wins the Class. When the quality is there it is great to find a new one to put up and hope that he is a new great one that people appreciate and that he is not a spooky one which is what we do NOT want to get started. Do your job and find that next wonder which is why we are judging the Breed that we all love.