{"id":567,"date":"2013-03-20T23:44:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T23:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winningpaws.wordpress.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2013-03-20T23:44:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T23:44:58","slug":"what-makes-a-good-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"What makes a good judge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What makes a good judge?<\/strong><br \/>\nI recently asked on the Winning Paws Facebook page what makes a good judge. After reading some comments about different judges at Crufts (mixture of good and bad), I thought it would make an interesting discussion to see what peoples thoughts are. I also know as an exhibitor myself I will not go under &#8220;poor&#8221; judges more than once, even if they have done my dogs well.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to \u00a0be common that what makes a good judge is one that can (and does) smile in the ring. Something so simple yet noticed by exhibitors. One comment from Elaine Bradley summed it up for me &#8220;To have a sense of humour, be pleasant and be able to smile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another is to be kind and gentle and put at ease the dog <strong>AND<\/strong> the handler. Especially new or young people in showing like a judge who gives time to explain what they want in a simple way.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen it myself before, judges wander into the ring and think they are the centre of attention. They don&#8217;t smile and they think they are above everyone else, even the exhibitors (who without they would have no appointment!)<\/p>\n<p>So to anyone wanting to judge &#8211; smile<br \/>\nTo anyone who currently judges &#8211; smile<br \/>\nAnd to all those judges who do smile &#8211; THANK YOU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a good judge? I recently asked on the Winning Paws Facebook page what makes a good judge. After reading some comments about different judges at Crufts (mixture of good and bad), I thought it would make an interesting discussion to see what peoples thoughts are. I also know as an exhibitor myself I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[70,153,159,213,242,246,384,402,408,429,500],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judging","tag-breed","tag-dog-showing","tag-dogs","tag-handling","tag-jha","tag-judge","tag-show","tag-showing","tag-smile","tag-steward","tag-ykc-breed-showing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningpaws.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}