Thanks Sis,

I knew you'd understand :-)

Some of these other winning puppies are in fact lovely - but they get paragraphs...... I want paragraphs 

Do you think I'm returning to my childhood?...
Where's ma teddy?.......

> Some of these other winning puppies are in fact lovely

Phew, that's a relief at least :)  Lovely = can live with it / Munchkin = red mist, stand back

> but they get paragraphs...... I want paragraphs

You need me hun, you'd get lots of them - maybe even a column :-D

> Do you think I'm returning to my childhood?...

Let's hope not - remember sibling rivalry - never pretty ;)
Have a cuppa, passing over carrot cake (one of my five a day!)

Some critiques are funny,  you get the ones that say so little often implying everything is so right about the dog and then you get the ones that say so little they imply the judge didn't like much.

We have to play the guessing game at times. :-)

Look at us..... 3 little birds of a feather or should that be heather?
Spooky isn't it how we flock together...... I said flock

We three must be related. ;-)

:-D :-D

I recently had my first foray into the world of goat showing and have been lucky enough to do really well. The goat judges place the whole class (I was dreading being last!!) and then they give a verbal critique to each exhibitor, which to be honest, I think is a much better way of doing things. Ok, you can't put that in an album to save which I still do for the dogs, but it does give you an idea on the day on why you were placed as you were and you aren't hanging round for months for that write up.

Also the judge has to say what they thought without reference to the catalogue when they get home ;)

Polly whats a critiques can you explein it to me im a moron!!!

A critique is the report the judge writes about the dogs that were judged.

I can see why that system appeals Setters4me but of course it restricts the info to the exhibitor alone.  When we have continental judges at our Breed Club Ch shows crits complete with gradings are done on every exhibit, not only those placed, and handed to the exhibitor after the class - a carbon copy is handed to the show secretary and later typed up and forwarded to the weekly dog press and reproduced also in the next newsletter of each club :)

The advantage of carbon copies being reproduced elsewhere is that everyone whether attending or not gets to read what was written on all exhibits and it gives a wider view of the placings and why some gradings have been higher or lower than others.

Grading exhibits is not allowed at UK general and group champ shows and since anything graded less than 'Excellent' (or if a puppy 'Very Promising') is not exactly sought after perhaps not all exhibitors would like to see the KC adopting this practice ;)

Thanks Jeangenie for replying to Whistler, I don't always get time over the weekend to reply as I am up to my ears in bits of paper and notes trying to get my articles sorted for the paper.

Little tip by the way folks, if you want something put into the news section of the papers DW and OD try to get it to us before Tuesday as that is when the papers get sent to the printers. Our printing deadline is 10am Tuesday morning, although by begging and pleading, (I am a miserable pleader anyway! lol), I can sometimes get Ali to hold an article until 11:30am Tuesday for me. I like to be able to research the articles on a Thursday and Friday and write them up over the weekend when ever possible.

Thanks I thought it was something like a report but not sure enough!!

Think most judges would rather do it there and then in the ring, is it a written critique or is it spoken; a spoken would be so very much easier to do IMO. Not sure in the UK if time and space could be found for critiques to be given after each class, we would need far more expensive venue space and far more time per entry or have I got the wrong idea of how it is done.