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Helen Crippen has decided to retire from judging after judging the April 2016 Maltese Nationals on 4/25/2016

Already!!!!???

She's only been around a couple of months! And she prefers owner handlers. We lost Bruce Bass last month too!!!

I know it's random but that's just bad luck.

Luckily newbie Barbara will do as a replacement!!!

Relax... these OH judges didn't exist that long ago anyway. They are nice when I am too lazy to choose handlers but they aren't special - they choose the same dogs just like every other judge.

When you haven't a lot of time, the OH judges are very useful. And dare I say it, they seem to get higher entries than others.

this is why I would like to see limits on the judges -

Once introduced judges would be guaranteed to stick around at least.... 6 months...??

and there would be a mandatory retirement at ... 24 months ....

those are just randomly selected lengths, but you get the idea. Maybe when the currently awaited updates are complete we can have a member vote

No, I like the randomness of it... All of the crying occurs with these OH judges anyway. No tears for Jeff Dunbar over there today :P

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posted by Degree
No, I like the randomness of it... All of the crying occurs with these OH judges anyway. No tears for Jeff Dunbar over there today :P

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I'm actually sad to see Jeff Dunbar go! He was one of the only judges that would give group wins to english setters!

You can't be serious!!!
Random?
I think not.
There at less then 1% handler free judges and the rest like small heads...pretty much.
I say we boycott the shows until we get more handler free judges...

Just kidding!

But really, I'm rather pissed.