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selves. Just look at Scandinavia. Normally, you pick the class, where your dog will go, at the moment when you fill the entry form. If by that time your dog is not the Champion, you enter him in Open Class. But in Scandinavia, if on Saturday the dog got the last CAC, on Sun- day he can go only to Champion Class. It’s against the FCI rules! The Scandinavians know this for twenty years, but they still do as they like. It means that the countries don’t think the FCI regulations are obligatory for them. In football, all 116 countries are playing by the same rules. When you’re the FCI judge and you have the appoint- ment abroad, in the morning you always need to ask the organizers: “How shall I give the CAC, how shall I give this, how shall I give that?” But why, if all these things are clearly written down in the FCI regu- lations?! Everybody has to follow the rules, but not everybody does.
To all the questions, the FCI answers that everything is up to the coun- try. But if each country can decide itself which rules to use, what for do we need the FCI?
The FCI must be strict, and must say to the countries that if they don’t follow the common rules, they cannot have CACIB shows. Un- fortunately, nobody in the FCI is ready to take on such a responsibil- ity, as they were not ready 10 years ago or 20 years ago. But if we don’t change the situation, we’ll never ever set the same standards for judging, for showing, for breeding in all the FCI countries.
Who has to start these changes?
The FCI. Only the FCI can say: “From January 1 we have these rules for shows, these rules for judging, these rules for breeding, these rules for working tests, and those who won’t follow them, won’t have any FCI events – shows, trials or whatev-
er”. And everything will fall in line very quick-
ly.
For example, in each country there are di er- ent requirements for those who want to become the FCI judges. Why?
It’s also against the FCI rules! In the FCI countries, all judges are FCI judges, no matter which level they are, national or international. So, the requirements for all the candidates who want to become, let me say, judges for Dachshunds or for German Shepherds, should come from the FCI and should be the same ev- erywhere. And we have these requirements written down by the FCI! But in the countries there are so many variations, and nobody is strictly following the FCI regulations. Why do we have the situation when the countries are allowed to deviate from these rules? Next, let’s take the small countries in South Ameri- ca, for example. When they have 390 dogs in total at the International Show, they cannot
Axel Hehl (Germany), SAR K9 evaluator Air Scenting and Mantrailing
I know Horst Kliebenstein for more than 30 years. His knowledge about dogs was a leading example for me and for my work with dogs. During my lectures in Russia, America, France, Denmark etc., it was always just a few minutes till the question, “do you know Horst Kliebenstein from Germany?” In my eyes, that’s absolutely normal, he is one of the best – if not the best! – judges in the dog world today.
Horst gave me the idea, how to judge dogs, how to see the functionality of a dog.
I am not a dog show judge, but a search and rescue k9 judge... Horst’s mentoring helped me to become a fair person, looking for the essential things.
All the dog fanciers, all the dog handlers should listen to his speech.
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