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Happy Birthday from his nephew, Bonzer, here at Surrey Hill! :cheers: :cheers:

Wow--I don't check this forum that often anymore, but this is a very interesting topic and set of replies. I could write reams and reams about some of it (we don't technically have lamping over here--our open field competitions involve Jack Rabbits and western ranches and negotiating barbed...

Thank you for the Congratulations! Butters was shown by Joe Buchanan, who handled a Pharoah Hound to Group 4 at Crufts a few years back. The black bitch was in the final cut of four bitches, but she did not get an award. She was indeed Ch. Snow Hill Onyx at Stoneledge. Her sister won our...

Nice photos! I particularly like this one: The brindle parti in the prize winning photos in the fourth album certainly looks like it could be shown with success. It seems to have the right topline and isn't over-muscled. Some of the others it's just a little hard to tell because it was...

Finn is a beautiful color! Good luck with your pup. I don't check this site often but I do enjoy the coursing photos from events that are put on here by lampy and others. I will look for your crew in the results. Here are a few head shots of Vendome: As busy as Vendome has been with...

Thank you! Vendome is my co-owned dog and mostly lives with me. Dwight told me he posted his link over here. He worked very hard getting together the photos and dogs of the e-tribute. I have another one I really hope finishes before the end of the year. He just lacks one first placement and is...

She is in my pedigrees now, too, through her grandson Savile Row. Can you please post a photo of her? I have tried and tried to find one but cannot. It would be very useful for my records. My condolences on your loss....seems she reached a grand old age, and of course she has wonderful...

Very alert and her color is heavenly! :p

I am so very sorry. She was a lovely old thing. It was my great privilege to have her in my ring to judge. I will not forget her--I promise you.

I do know that dog. He was WD in Maryland back in January on a day when I got BOB with our special. Thanks for clearing that up. Well, at least a little. I looked up the record. A class male went BOB that day. The BOS was a bitch. Are you SURE it was the BOS that you did not like? Because...

Congratulations! I enjoyed seeing him at our National. I guess next year I will see his puppies. I saw Charlotte Lee walking him and thought at first..."why is she walking my dog?" because he looked so much like Butters! Karen Lee

Well, I'm stumped. Of course I wanted to figure out who this dog you thought was so terrible was, but I can't find any record of a show in Maryland this year where the Classic dogs were entered, let alone did a lot of winning--unless it was back in January but I was showing at those shows. Oh...

Other than size and pigment, there are not a whole lot of differences in Whippet standards. All an American judge should have to do is to not put up too big and not penalize too light, but otherwise, judge about the same as they would back home--IF what we're talking about are standards. Now...

My point I made earlier is that here in the USA, the foreign judges with a few exceptions aren't really putting up anything that doesn't win under the American judges, too. It doesn't make a big difference. When a judge from Scandanavia or Australia or Italy or Japan looks at our entries...

Good heavens--Maryland is part of my home turf!! I hope it wasn't one of mine! :o I suppose I wasn't at that show, whichever one it was. Why do you come all the way to Maryland for shows? Next time, don't be a stranger. Karen

They have to look at it, but it doesn't mean they have to take it into much account if they want to put their emphasis elsewhere. My mother was a licensed judge for many years (she did herding, hounds, and toys) and she was quite well-liked as a judge of Alsatians. When she was going for her...

It is true that American judges tend to make you gait a lot more. But one thing is that American judges are allotted more time per dog, I think, than they get in other countries. It is stressed over here that the exhibitors are trying not just to show to the judge but to exhibit their dogs to...

Not every American agrees we should have that sort of extreme side gait in the Whippet, but it's a fight I feel those of us who want a smooth, sound daisy clip with true gait on the line are losing--both the battle and the war. It makes it very hard on the dual-purpose breeders because extreme...

:thumbsup: Most people would have pariah dogs and learn to like it.

This has been the case here, as well. A lot of areas are moving towards outright bans on any pet not spayed/neutered (unless you pay a really high kennel/breeder license fee and submit to annual inspections), which means that you would have to have this done right away after getting your puppy...