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But if you love your breed, it’s still very interesting to judge it, and to have the possibility to judge in many other countries, to see how the Standard is working there, what is better, what is not so good. For me it’s still a big pleasure to watch the di erent types of my breeds around the world.
But you’re judging all the breeds, not only yours. Which can be the challenge to judge every week? Which is the sense for you?
The sense for me is that when you’re judging around the world, you can see the development in each breed, from time to time. The type changes a little bit to this side or to that side, so when you judge only ten times in the year, and you’re an all-rounder, you see the same breed very rarely, and you’re not able to have the overview of what is changing in this breed, if you judge it now and then in three years again. For these three years so many things can change! When you like to be the all breed judge, and you’re really interested to do a good job for each of them, this means automatically that you must judge very often. Only this way you will be in – in the breeds, – and only this way you will not lose the contact with them. Therefore, it’s not easy to be the all-round judge, while you have such a big respon- sibility. The judge keeps the influence upon the breeds. Let me say, when you have the honour to judge the European Show or the World Show, and you give the title to a male, you have to remember that this male will come into the breed as the producer. So, when you
Andrey Klishas (Russia), FCI judge, Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Constitutional Legislation and State-Building Committee of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Horst Kliebenstein is one of those very special people, near whom you always feel like a student. And it’s not because of his age, and absolutely not because he would have ever shown his superiority to younger colleague judges. The point is that when you’re ready to learn, he is always happy to give you everything that he has: his knowledge, his experience, his honest opinions. His hands are always opened for you, and it’s the best quality that a true mentor can have. Many greetings to him from our Russian Dachshund Club and from me personally!
Philip John (India), FCI judge, President of the Dachshund Club of India
As the President of the Dachshund Specialty Club of India, I was most grateful to Horst Kliebenstein, when he agreed to be the Patron of our small Club. Horst was simply happy to help genuine lovers of the breed, in which he is clearly an acknowledged expert today. Horst wanted us to be very strict with the FCI standard. He loathed heavy dogs who could not do the work they were bred for.
I am greatly privileged to have Horst as a long standing friend and I wish him many more years of input to the dog world!
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