First Beijing Dog
Show in 5,000 years
Judge
Eric T. Omura
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TheDogPlace
October 5, 2000 -
According to Chinese horoscope, 2001 is the year of
the snake. This year is the year of the dragon. From dragon to snake means the year 2001 shall be the
year of consolidation. The dragon faced the challenges and
conquered new horizon this year, it is time for the snake to take over
the job of consolidation. Snake is smart, and above all tough to
face and overcome, to build the new horizon earned by the dragon. The
old Chinese saying says, dragon is helpless in shallow water.
So its the time for the snake to secure the territory.
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NASA judging team in Beijing, China.
(October 5, 2000) Front row from far left: Me, Sandra (judge
for grooming), Tseng Bo-cuan (all breed judge from Taiwan) etc. Front row from far right: Mathew Fan (judge
for Chinese breed group), Beijing organizer staff, and fourth from
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This interpretation of the cosmos is also the
story for North America Working Dog Association. This year the Association conquered new ground locally
in Hong Kong, in China and in Taiwan. To start the story at home,
the Association has succeeded in working with a sponsor to start
obedience training and pet grooming classes for the Hong Kong public.
We foresee that the formulation of these educational classes in Hong
Kong shall have far reaching impact into China.
In China, the year 2000 had been the most fruitful
year for the Association. We have broken new grounds in China
being the pioneer in many places in China. We have successfully launched the first dog show in
Beijing, China since 5,000 years. We defined "dog show"
exactly as competition being run under the dog show rules; not just any
party gathering.
We have made history that the Chinese breed group is
well established in China. Besides the normal kennel club
division, we insisted that in China, we must have an extra Chinese breed
group to compete. If you look into any breed chart closely, there
are so many dogs of Chinese origin. After the numerous shows
organized by us in China this year, the consensus is high and well
accepted in the public here of the extra group.
The same goes for Shar Pei of which I have already reported to you in
details previously.
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Next to me at the back: Representative of
kennel club from South Korea In front of me sitting in grey jacket:
Gordon Esselmann from U.S. NASA, and next to him on the right, his wife. |
Some more of those ground breaking events which NASA
launched this year.
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The year of the dragon was kick-off with the first
dog show in Shengyang, northeastern China (January 2000).
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The first dog show in Dalian city northeastern
China (September 8 and 9th, 2000).
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The first police and military dog working trial in
Nanjing, central China.
Equally meaningful and epoch making event is that the
Judges from the Association was officially being invited to judge in a
show in Taiwan. Never before did it happened in the whole canine
history of China and Taiwan. I do not exclude there might have
been case before that someone as an individual from Hong Kong had been
invited to Taiwan to judge a certain unofficial show. This is a
case where an official kennel club organization in Taiwan officially
invited North America Working Dog Association to judge in their show.
This event itself has far reaching effect in Asia and points to new
possibility, where not just individuals but also as associations, as
long as we all love "dogs" can work together sensibly for the
common good.
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NASA judging team in Taiwan dog
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To cut the b.s. (business speech) short, please let
me entertain you with much more photos to spice you with extra
excitements for this Christmas.
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Nanhai Dog Show (April 23, 2000) Shar Pei Specialty Show BOB
(traditional type) and reserve BOB (medium type - meaty bone
mouth)
I judged together with Mr. Lai Wing-ka (standing far right) from
Nanhai City.
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All the king's horses and all the king's
men at the royal court of Nanhai Show ground (April 23, 2000) |
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Then we went on to another show later on this year in Xiqiao county,
Nanhai City (November 26, 2000)
BOB on the left (medium - meaty bone mouth type) and reserve BOB on the
right. (traditional - bone mouth type) Picture taken together with Mr. Tim Bradach
(all breed judge from America) on my left and Mr. Lai Wing-ka (Shar Pei
judge from Nanhai)
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The Reserve BOB was also an extremely sound
dog and I struggled very much how should I give the title. The
final decision was on the tail setting. I expected the traditional type to have a
very clear tail set, strong and sturdy. If the head of a Shar Pei
is the coat of arms of a knight, then the tail should be the banner
which should be steady and proud, waving clear showing the knight's
position from far far away.
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See me struggle together with Judge Lai
Wing-ka on the BOB and reserve BOB.
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Height is another controversial but
important feature of this Shar Pei breed, I always take special
precaution of measuring each dog to encourage people to go for the
higher standard of 21" to keep breeding regressing to shorter and
shorter height. Theoretically, people talked about 22" based
on visual experience thirty to forty years ago, this height is not
confirmed in recent records. (see attached records). I
support the 22" if people can breed back to such size but not
realist at the present moment as the record shows. 22" would
be a very majestic sharpei, the dream dog but let's put our feet on the
ground to work with what we have got for the time being.
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The close-up of BOB (medium - meaty bone
mouth type).
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First
Beijing Dog Show in 5,000 years
Shar-Pei Height Data
New
China Dog Shows
Midland Shar-Pei Club Open Show
Bears
and Dog Shows, Cruelty Halted
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