clangan
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Oct 23, 2004, 10:51 PM
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Re: [chnyuppie] Champion Champion may or may not produce champions, non champion and non will never produce champions!
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A repeat from the Surchinmy thread.... Ai'yo yo yo... This has brought in the best knights into the round table discussion. I am so proud to be able to put some much brain cells into this sometimes quiet urban story with my caption! Anyway, soundness, type, temprement..etc..etc... is part and parcel of being 'champion' as I have quoted earlier.... 'Champion' in itself is not meant by the title as it is quoted as a figure of speech and understanding. This quote came from one of the GR news (GRCA-Golden Retriever Club Of America) where a very reputable lady put that quote out but of course she sum it up with whatever you guys have mentioned above and more! As you all know, the understanding of "champion" is not in itself the title alone, it means so many things....type temprement, conformation, purpose, standards, definition, breeding, politics, negotiations....so on..... My caption was meant for simplicity and it serves a simple guideline to the green guys in this forum, their safest bet in Malaysia is still go back to "champions' breeding" should they want to get something good in conformation and health! A dog that obtain its title has to somehow conform to a certain degree of conformation and its health has to be somewhere there to win, health in this discussion simply means, its hips are good, descended testicles and most of the time scissor bite (lets not go into more complicated health issue, just basics), this is the most basic requirement in the achievement of the title "champion". In our environment here, we have breeders breeding mono dogs, hip problem dogs, undershot.. and all the crap and sells them to the clients quoting champion line, big head, big bone, big everything and by you big knights going into such deep discussions, not many of the greens could understand, they stay at home thinking and hoping that their dogs are gonna be a champion one day..! I get many private e-mails inquiring about their GR, most came with hip problems and some about dogshow and etc... So my advise to them is simple "Champion and Champion may or may not produce champions, non champion and non champion never produce champions" this quote suits that environment at that time and of course to solid breeder like yourself, this is not applicable! If I were to go down in details and discuss about breed standards, show environment, breeding requirements and etc to a new comer, I think I will better start a GR breeding consulting firm! LCK amd Skipper would best understand my quote as I am sure you come across many who ask you the questions I came across and to educate them, it takes a long time, not all are good learner as we had experienced, some after 3 days of listening becomes a self-professed Guru and start banging of them empty barrels! Anyway, enough said, I am proud to bring the gods and generals into this thread! Kudos!
(This post was edited by clangan on Oct 23, 2004, 10:52 PM)
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