Dog showing - where have you been all my life!?

[Patterdale]

Took puppy to her first show last week. OMG. WHY have I been messing about with horses all this time!?

I wiped the puppy with coat shine on a baby wipe, put her in the car with a blanket, crate and food, and off we went.
I didn’t need to lunge the puppy when we got there, and I also hadn’t needed to school and hack the puppy for hours a week for weeks running up to the show.

Got to the show, got the puppy out, walked around a bit, put puppy in crate.

Sat down and watched for a bit.

Took puppy into her classes. Led her round. Stood still. Walk round again.

Option of buying rosettes if you want them, which I imagine keeps entry fees down.

Watch more. Giggle at funny looking breeds.

Go home.

What a day out!! It helped that she won lots but even if she hadn’t, I’d have gone home thinking ‘ah well’ without the added anguish over £200+ in entries and fuel down the pan.

Great fun!! Going for a junior warrant now (whatever that is!)

 

[CorvusCorax]

Oh don't worry, you'll get jaded and cynical in no time

 

[blackcob]

which I imagine keeps entry fees down.

My agility friends have always been aghast that you have to buy your own rosettes.

 

[rabatsa]

My agility friends have always been aghast that you have to buy your own rosettes.

But it does save on clutter in the house when you have loads of rosettes and not a clue what to do with them.

 

[BallyRoanBaubles]

I was saying something similar to my friend recently

 

[MurphysMinder]

The joys of a nice easy breed, if I were to show my heelers they would be very much the same. Bit different to the GSDs with prolonged gaiting, and the added expense of a professional handler unless you were super fit. And of course there are the coated breeds that turn up in inclement weather in full on waterproofs, and are then groomed and powdered for hours !

 

[blackcob]

But it does save on clutter in the house when you have loads of rosettes and not a clue what to do with them.

I save them up (the ‘free’ ones that is!) for Discover Dogs, we stick new centres on and hand them out to the kiddies. I do keep special ones and they don’t half gather dust.

And of course there are the coated breeds that turn up in inclement weather in full on waterproofs, and are then groomed and powdered for hours !

The realisation that you’re in after poodles and the air is toxic with hairspray

 

[Annette4]

We will (hopefully) have all this to come

I'm a rosette addict with all of the sports so I have no doubt I'll be the same over showing but might not tell OH we have to pay for them

 

[Parrotperson]

Took puppy to her first show last week. OMG. WHY have I been messing about with horses all this time!?

I wiped the puppy with coat shine on a baby wipe, put her in the car with a blanket, crate and food, and off we went.
I didn’t need to lunge the puppy when we got there, and I also hadn’t needed to school and hack the puppy for hours a week for weeks running up to the show.

Got to the show, got the puppy out, walked around a bit, put puppy in crate.

Sat down and watched for a bit.

Took puppy into her classes. Led her round. Stood still. Walk round again.

Option of buying rosettes if you want them, which I imagine keeps entry fees down.

Watch more. Giggle at funny looking breeds.

Go home.

What a day out!! It helped that she won lots but even if she hadn’t, I’d have gone home thinking ‘ah well’ without the added anguish over £200+ in entries and fuel down the pan.

Great fun!! Going for a junior warrant now (whatever that is!)

Well here’s a thing. If I take the jrt to a show I still have to lunge him and take him for a long hack before hand otherwise it’s all TOO EXCITING!!!!

 

[Patterdale]

The joys of a nice easy breed, if I were to show my heelers they would be very much the same. Bit different to the GSDs with prolonged gaiting, and the added expense of a professional handler unless you were super fit. And of course there are the coated breeds that turn up in inclement weather in full on waterproofs, and are then groomed and powdered for hours !

This is why I would never have a hairy or big dog!!

 

[Jenko109]

I would like to show. Not that I think my whippet is a nice enough example to win anything, but it would be nice to see lots of other whippets etc.

I couldn't find any local ringcraft lessons last time I searched though.

 

[maisie06]

I had a go at a working test and like you say chuck dog in car and turn up, £10 entry fee for a day of fun and some lunch!! Just need lots and lots of rescue remedy for me!

 

[Smitty]

Terrier racing even better, no washing required, as lively as possible so NO lunging beforehand and it is possible to win money . Not posh enough for a Manchester I suppose

 

[Smitty]

Oooh, forgot to add, and the adrenaline

 

[druid]

Well done again, she certainly made a splash on debut!! Absolutely try for the Junior Warrant (I have no idea what the point system is now!).

Get her IKC registered and you can come over here too and get international and Irish titles (We have junior champion titles as well as full champion and veteran champion). Plus Celtic Winners etc...

 

[Clodagh]

I think it’s really sad that ability has so few rosettes, I’d want a clear round one if I ever got that far! Can you tell my horse competing days may have been at low level local shows?
And as for having to pay for a rosette that you have earned… I’m

But really well done with the puppy, what a girl!

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

I think the only ’showing’ id want to do is dock jumping! Bear’s pretty good. On the right.

 

[TPO]

My childhood trauma was dog shows!

Many a weekend spent in freezing sports halls while people traipsed round in circles when mum showed.

If that wasn't bad enough, it was mixed up with freezing conditions in the middle of fields watching mum do Working or Sheepdog trials.

Congrats on your win

 

[Clodagh]

I think the only ’showing’ id want to do is dock jumping! Bear’s pretty good. On the right.
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I think dock diving should be banned. Having seen dogs pushed off them, terrified.

 

[Clodagh]

But that’s terribly off topic!

 

[Moobli]

I think dock diving should be banned. Having seen dogs pushed off them, terrified.

Pushed off them? It looks brilliant fun fro what I’ve seen. My GSD would much rather do lure coursing though.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

I think it’s really sad that ability has so few rosettes, I’d want a clear round one if I ever got that far! Can you tell my horse competing days may have been at low level local shows?
And as for having to pay for a rosette that you have earned… I’m

But really well done with the puppy, what a girl!

Agility does give clear round rosettes and usually rosettes down to 10% of entry.

 

[Jenko109]

I don't know much about dock diving, but from what I have seen, the dogs do seem to enjoy it.

I suppose there will be those types of people that unfairly push their dogs in all sports though (pardon the pun) so I would not like to see a whole sport banned because of a few bad eggs.

 

[CorvusCorax]

My friend in the USA does competitive dock diving with her GR, have seen nothing that causes me any concern.

There are bad eggs in any/every sport.

I see more people dragging dogs backwards away from things to build drive.

 

[Clodagh]

Mine would absolutely nail it and Tawny would probably be World Champion. I’ve only seen it once and there was a Boxer that really didn’t want to get in, looked genuinely scared, and he was up there for ages being blocked as he tried to run away then they dragged him by his collar until he fell off, bum first, into the water. He then proved he could barely swim. Crowd thought it was really funny. I didn’t watch any more.

 

[Clodagh]

But I absolutely did not intend to digress this thread from OP’s excellent achievements.

 

[ponyparty]

Is this your MT, Patterdale? Congrats! My boy’s ears never came right (radar ears!! They came right after I had him neutered, obvs ) so I gave up showing after a few goes. But it is quite fun!
Enjoy

 

[malwhit]

In the olden days (well 25 years ago) you didn't have to pay for rosettes. I still have a handful from when I showed my Corgi. Her short show career ended when I moved from the South East back to Yorkshire.

I did love showing and meeting some famous doggy people. To me the well known exhibitors and the contributors to Dog World were my influencers or celebrities

 

[CorvusCorax]

The paying for rosettes is relatively recent, to cut down on costs, falling numbers means some breeds have only one or two in a class, if any, then there's absentees, no point in making up rosettes especially.
We still had stacks from the 70s and 80s when we moved house.

 

[druid]

Is this your MT, Patterdale? Congrats! My boy’s ears never came right (radar ears!! They came right after I had him neutered, obvs ) so I gave up showing after a few goes. But it is quite fun!
Enjoy

Did you do anything to correct the ears? There's few and far between MTs who haven't been helped along to get the correct set!