'IMPRESSIONS' SIEGER SHOW 2006 - Page 1

IMPRESSIONS 2006 Sieger Show – Oberhausen, Germany THE GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG - WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW David Payne – Videx GSD www.videxgsd.com Held in Oberhausen, situated in an industrial area of Germany, near Dusseldorf, this is the first time the Sieger Show has been held here, and I believe it is planned to return here in 2008. Oberhausen is a somewhat smaller city than the usual large city venues, which causes some difficulty with available hotel accommodation, with many visitors staying in hotels some distance from the venue. The Show was held in the Niederrheinstadion, which is not an ideal venue with a lay out not to everyone’s liking for this huge German Shepherd Dog Spectacular Show. The rings for the two Junior (12 to 18 months) classes (male & female) and the two Yearling classes (18 to 24 months) classes (male & female) were a considerable distance from the entrance to the stadium, although they were on a flat well grassed area, there was also some distance between the (12 to 18 months) rings and the (18 to 24 months) rings. Walking around the venue presented many stairs, and elevations, some excessive distances, and continually dodging the dog faeces which was in most of the public places, with little evidence of facilities for collecting and disposing of it. On the Saturday afternoon there was an almost constant odour of dog faeces which was being regularly stepped on around the venue. The young classes (male & female) had very good sized flat rings, with spectator viewing available around almost the full rings. This is a very important facility for the Sieger Show because many thousands of spectators attend and they need ample space to be able to see the dogs being judged. Some Sieger venues have only 3 sides of the ring accessible to spectators, with restrictions of various kinds on other sides. Inside the main stadium was somewhat smaller than the usual stadiums at other Sieger Show venues, but adequate. There was a variety of facilities for various foods and drinks, between the young dog rings and the stadium and near the front entrance to the stadium. It was not far from these areas where most of the stalls were situated, although some stalls were somewhat separated from the main group. READ IT ALL AT: http://www.videxgsd.com/impressions_sieger_2006.htm

David, thanks for the post. I wanted to go to Oberhausen this year but could not. I do plan to attend the next show there. Thanks for the head's up about the generous amount of dog poo. I'll tell the wife to not wear her sandals! Bob-O

ecelent review. very frank and very informative at the same time

For me this was absolutely the worsest siegershow I have ever seen in my live (35 years dogsport). There was no atmosfere, it was a shitty small stadium, dogshit all over, if you would like to go to the JKL and JHKL, you had to go trough the restrooms from the stadium... terrible... What I did see was.... the "gesamtleitung" was given to Hans Peter Fetten, a man who probebly did not have time to see how the show was doing because.... he did ENTER 7 DOGS. This did never happen before and it is a shame for the SV that the organiser can go in ALL THE RINGS WITH HIS BADGE TO DOUBLLE HANDLE HIS DOGS. This is for sure not correct to other people but what do you want... some can have dogs from 69 cm, others have to leave with a 67 cm dog... Some "Kormeisters" is allowd to kor them, other get punnished... If this will be the future.... poor German Shepherd, still the greatest dog I will ever know.