Then the rumours started flying around on Facebook. One lady posted RIP to NWA. Apparently the show manager had received BIS from this judge last year and his "Strange" friends would be attending the show to win! This gentleman promotes a heavy English bloodline type of dog, and so this judge would be more suitable to promoting the "Alsatian" type than the correct internationally recognised German Shepherd dog. But still it's our local breed show, thankfully on our doorstep, we would ignore the rumours and support it! But on day one, win is what they all did!!!! People who had probably never set foot in Wales before let alone travel to Anglesey for a small breed show took almost all the top honours. From the beginning of the show when it was so obviously "us and them" it left a sick feeling in our stomachs. (Though I must admit to making one new friend ... a lovely lady who was more than willing to interact with us "Germans!")
To add to the inconsistency of the day, after placing English dogs in every class where he had a choice ... Ziva won her class and my friend Angela was second with her German bitch .. the English bitch in that class being last. Why? If he considered that type to be correct then how come he saw fit to place these 2 bitch first and second? What in his eyes was so wrong with the other bitch? To be honest I'm not too sure it was a compliment but can only hope he saw something in Ziva's super far reaching movement that appealed to him. (I'm always quick to judge my own and see their faults so clearly, equally I see their virtues - Ziva moves like a dream!)Today is the second day of the Extravaganza ... I like many other have considered all the options and decided to stayed home!!!
