IPObservations 5 - Responsibilities of Dog Sport Judges - Page 1

A little video report from a recent GSDL-Working Dog Group Judging Seminar for prospective and apprentice IPO Judges in the UK 



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Great video....

Thanks for posting this.

Excellent, very clear, as always.  Thanks Ashley.

I like the idea of promoting the "overall impression" of the dog - the power, the character being more critical than the precision of a pattern.      If this mantra is going to be widely accepted and put forward, then perhaps the dogs with better character will get more attention, vs. the dogs that are precision marching animals without the strenght of character.      One can only hope.      Now bring back the real courage test and the stick!

Heiko was adamant that the stick hits are here to stay as far as the SV/WUSV Trials are concerned.  It is essential for the breed that the dogs can cope with stick pressure and is well within ethical bounds. There is no argument to consider withdrawing this exercise. We must test our German Shepherds for Protection work.

Stick hits in IPO aren't done with a stick .. as a breeder I can test my dogs any way I want to during training using real sticks, bamboo clatter sticks, and Ring Sport aparatus .. I don't need fake hits with a padded flexible slapper as an evaluation tool as in IPO trials.  If you breed GSD evaluate them however you want within the bounds of what is legal, ethical, and humane but don't pretend that the fake stick hits in IPO are cruicial to developing dogs with a sound head or saving the GSD as a breed .. that can be done apparently using lots of other tools as in the Ring Sports where they put a lot more pressure on the dogs than IPO's "tickle me" stick hits.  By the way, just for the record, the gun shot in IPO is also a hoot .. I use a 38 with +P loads instead of those wimpy low power blanks IPO uses.  If criminals and police start using low power 22 ammo I will too!! 

Boo

"testing" your dog in your own back yard, with no judge present is no test either. What are you doing to demonstrate the breed worthiness of your stock?


Mike 

I have seen some IPO dogs with titles that were not "breed worthy" and some that are.  Plenty of GSD including police, S&R, and other "real" working dogs with no fake stick hits to their credit that are breed worthy.  Judges don't mean much either as Caputo demonstrated at the WUSV qualifier 2013.  Plenty of IPO dogs with "export" titles and the "friends and family" IPO club titles who are not breed worthy .. the breeder bears the responsibility of producing good dogs and IPO titles are not the measure of a dog any more than a college degree is the measure of intelligence or human productivity.  If IPO wants to include fake stick hits .. wonderful .. just don't pretend that these fake stick hits are important to breeding good GSD and whine around about how the GSD as a breed is doomed because IPO may drop the fake stick hit from their little opera.

Bubba.    Just don't pretend you are breeding anything more then just pets.