nnual Lilliland Dog Show

ometime ago Baron Von Lodge was the head of a small country near Switzerland known as Lilliland.

Once a year in the spring, the dog breeders held a contest to see which dog was the most beautiful in the show. There were over forty different dogs entered in the contest. It was an event that was most popular with all the dog lovers in the Lilliland area. The winner received a large prize, which added to the competitiveness of the show.

However, it was noted by many of the contestants who had entered dogs, but did not win, felt that the contest was not fair. The complaint was that since the dog show had been held for twenty years, the same type of dog was usually the winner. Many small dogs had been entered, but none had won. When the comparison was made between long-hair and short-hair dogs, the long-hair dogs usually came out ahead.

There was such a stir that many dog owners threatened to not enter the show in the future.

Professor Hamblin, the Baron’s chief advisor, was asked to investigate the complaint that the larger dogs had a better chance of winning than smaller dogs. Long-hair dogs had an advantage over short-hair dogs.

After an investigation of all the complaints, the Professor announced his findings to the board of directors of the dog show.

It was decided that there would be several classifications of contestant. One group would be large dogs with long hair, another would be small dogs with long hair, another would be large, short-haired dogs and another would be small dogs with short hair.

Every contestant would be judged in his own classification so that there could be no conflict as to body size of hair length.

All the contestants agreed to start the new way of judging dogs in the upcoming event. Everyone was in complete agreement.

The Lilliland dog show was held at the usual time of the year and there were the usual number of entries.

This time, instead of having just one winner, there were four winners. That seemed to satisfy everyone.

But the dog owners whose dogs were medium size and had had medium length hair were quick to ask for an additional classification for their special dogs. That would be considered in the future.