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Originally Posted by spidey

I think there is a lot of confirmation bias going on with the idea that because a dog that won was overweight, that the dog was put up BECAUSE it was overweight (and the fact that your dog may have a better head than the dog who won doesn't mean that the dog who won wasn't better on the day in other respects - the judge judges the dog in front of them on the day, and it's easy to spot faults, we should try to spot merits as well). I can't list all the judges I've asked about this, because I don't have a list of their names, but I can tell you that two were Edd Embry Bivin and Sallyann Comstock (Sallyann judges herding group, not sure if she judges working or not).

I realize that, I do. I do wish that being out of condition and over weight be considered a fault in the standard. The rottweiler is supposed to be a working dog. A working dog is in condition and not fat. I am not surprised about Mr. Bivin. He and his wife put my Fizbin up for back to back majors. Apparently both were surpised that they both liked the same dog.