When shoud a Judge Retire?

I had the most awful experience today at a show. The judge was obviously ill and was having an awful time keeping on track and judging his entry. The steward had to tell him repeatedly if he had more than one dog in the class as he would try to mark the judges book after going over one dog.

It was horribly unfair. Not only to the exhibitors but to the judge himself to keep him in that blazing sun trying to do a job he was so obviously incapable of doing.

The exhibitors were subjected to very poor ring procedures with no clear directions on what to do when and then, if you were third in a class of 3 that's the ribbon you got because he marked the book after the first dog before he ever touched the other entries. He kept getting further and futher behind in his judging and by the time his second "set" of dogs was starting in the ring, he was more than an hour behind.

The show committee kept propping him up and making excuses to the exhibitors, saying he was ill and on medication that required frequent trips to the restroom and that is probably true, but to keep on letting him judge when it was all so obvious that he was "out of it" was just plain criminal.

I think the reason they (the show committee) kept him going was because of money. If they had substituted another judge for him, they would have had to pay that judge, plus refund entry fees to people who pulled their entries (you are allowed to pull your entry and get a refund if there is a judge change). It's so sad when money is allowed to be the reason for allowing an unfair situation persist when it could have been corrected.

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