Posted: Aug 5, 2012pYVqppCXOflcmRwSU, uySdcFyUFMyj, Bahamas
1) A Judge who stopped me on the way out of the ring and cenommted on one attribute of my dog If it weren't for your dog's XYZ, he would have placed first . What put this up there for misinformed judge award was that the XYZ in question is PREFERRED in the breed standard. Whoops!For juniors (my kids all showed juniors)1) The judge who cenommted unfavorably that a child didn't hand stand a breed that is NEVER hand stacked in the ring.2) the judge who cenommted that the kid should have held the tail out (like a sporting dog) on a working breed!and the winner is (this was not my kid):The kid that had to teach a bedlington to hand stack square (fyi bedlingtons are one of the few breeds where the front legs are stacked together a tripod, not foursquare). The poor dog had to balance very unnaturally that way for juniors, as judges didn't realize what correct and incorrect was for the breed.
Posted: Aug 3, 2012WdLSHoaTKbge, yArghUccp, Bahamas
Dear Ms. Narayan I am a reader of Mint and Look forwrad to your column every weekend. This weekend as every weekend, I first turned to your column. What followed was inexplicable. I have never before sobbed like that along with my tea on a saturday morning. You made me cry loudly Ms Narayan very loud and very hard. Almost through my life I have grown up with dogs, and now as a single woman in her 30 s my only companion at home is my 6 year old labrador, Basanti. (Like Inji I wanted her to have an Indian name). She is beautiful and loving and every now and then this crazy fear grips me when I am afraid that she will get sick, or fall from the stairs or die. But for now I love her to bits and hope that she stays healthy and fit to her last breath.Ms Narayan I am sorry for your loss.
