Why do professional ball players make so much money -- not the guys warming the bench for 1-200,000. But the ones that are making millions, pitchers, homerun hitters, quarterbacks etc?
The reason is there are only so many people in the world that can do what they do.
Maybe the analogy is not 100%.
For German Showlines, the dogs not only have to compete in the Sieger show against a class containing hundreds of dogs, they also have to be titled, and pass a breed survey, and and endurance test, and have hips, elbows and dna done, and pass the protection phase at that show, and produce a progeny group that proves that they reproduce themselves.
After all that, you are still subjecting your dog to hours and hours of sorting, gaiting around the ring, standing for examinations, etc. And after all that it will still come down to someone's interpretation of the standard as to which dog most closely fits.
If you work hard enough, you should be able to get a degree and land a job as an accountant.
No matter how hard you work, if you do not have the right body, strength, sex, and talant, you will not be a professional ball player making millions.
If someone works hard enough with a dog, they should be able to get that dog titled or train that dog for some type of work.
But no amount of working with a dog will make the judges put the dog up if it does not have it naturally.
At the same time, you have to TRAIN a dog for the ring.
I have taken conformation classes and I have titled a dog in obedience. Obedience legs are WAY easier than the conformation training in my opinion. All you from the outside see is the dog running around the ring. But there is a lot more too it than that, and some things you just cannot train, like attitude.
Who wants a hard working dog when you can have an angulated pretty GSD?
