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Tibetan mastiff photo's at crufts 2013

ruthcatrin

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What are the different sub-classes (like Post Graduate)? I'm having trouble figureing out some of the abbriviations
 

ruthcatrin

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and makes me feel a bit better about some of the awards, they're pups lol (though there's one bitch who I'd swear looks like shes the result of a cross with a setter or maybe pointer....)
 

Mooshi's Mummy

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Yeah there are some pretty poor looking dogs there! One of them looks nothing like a TM, its really small! Probably the one you are talking about...with an older chap?
 

ruthcatrin

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There's some really random head shapes in the group too, like no stop, and long and skinny muzzles with no flews. There's extremes the other way too, but geeze, that makes the head not look like a TM....
 

ruthcatrin

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I don't like her head either, though I'm not sure I could define why.....and it might be the picture angle, but her legs look kinda short too. I guess I'd have to see pictures of her and Mooshi last year to compare, but this year they definetly made the right choice to pick Mooshi over her!
 

BlackShadowCaneCorso

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Okay I know nothing about TMs but there is a big ass black male (tan points) makes his female handler look tiny... is he a nice male or not... cause I like him in the pics.
 

ruthcatrin

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I don't dis-like him? He's a lion coat (which I don't personally care for), which makes it harder to judge on sight vs touch. And either he's been trimmed (against the rules for the TM) or he's half way through blowing out his coat (which is entirely possible). His muzzle looks a bit short, but that might be the lion coat throwing off the head proportions. I have to laugh at the front angled photo cause Apollo does that with his front feet too (drives me nuts).

Its hard to tell, but I think the handler might just be that tiny too, looking at the other pictures. Its part of why I'm handling Apollo rather than hubby, he looks bigger next to me.....
 
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