Show pet peeves?

[DevonW]

What are some of the pet peeves you have when you go to a show?

Mine are:
-When a judge scruffs a rabbit to pick it up.
-When a judge doesn't pose your breed correctly.
-The main one is when someone gets angry at a rabbit and handles it rougly because it didn't place well. It's not the rabbits fault
-Sore losers. Be a good sport, congratulate the winner, don't turn around and start spreading rumours about them.
-Judges that DQ a rabbit for being sick, but don't disinfect their hands or the hole it was in afterwards.

 

[ladysown]

haven't been to enough to really say...

but when Judges don't know the breed standard well-enough and DQ a rabbit that didn't need to be.

 

[billylilwigeon]

The one showroom pet peeve for me happened almost annually at our county fair for the first 4 years I showed there.

First off, understand something. I showed at the county fair as a means of paying my feed bill for the year. The premiums were such that I could show 8-10 rabbits a year in the fair and the money I'd get from the fair committee a couple of months after it ended would literally pay to feed my rabbitry for the entire year afterward. Whether I won it all or not, I was still getting paid, the shows weren't sanctioned to begin with, and I didn't gain the first sweepstakes point or grand championship leg from anything which happened there.

Each year without fail, the same "judge" was hired and each time, she purposely eliminated my best rabbits for ear mites, while picking rabbits which had obvious flaws as the overall show winners. The thing is? There wasn't an ear mite to be found in any of them, and the kid who wound up winning it was the son of the rabbit chairman who hired the judge in the first place.

Losing fair and square is losing and I can deal with that and accept it, but winning in such a way is the greatest form of defeat IMHO.

And Charlene Bradberry, if you're alive, I hope you're reading this. I still laugh about the year that the other kid stopped showing, and you had the audacity to walk up and ask me which of my rabbits I was going to sell you when the competition was over.