Showing a Border Terrier

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Just wondered if any one here has ever shown their Border ? , Iv'e entered Teddy in the midland border terrier club show on 23rd Nov
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, he's doing the minor puppy dog class , do you think the judges will mind being licked to death when trying to look at his teeth !? , should we have his fur stripped before we go ? any advise would be great
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I've only met one judge that probably would mind the kisses, but then he didn't dare to touch the dogs with more than one finger! One sunday he managed to become the one person/thing that EVER frightened my first Norwegian Buhund, and weeks later when I opened the Swedish KK's magazine "Lynchmob-feelings around the Golden Retriever ring on saturday", guess wich judge they had?!
But that portuguese where from then, banned from judgeing on SKK shows. And there really isn't that many bad judges around, well if you don't count the ones unable to see my dogs greatness
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Otherwise I've had one of those licks-everyone-within-reach, and it always made even the most well make-uped old ladyjugde smile.

About the fur I could only copy what it says in a book about coatcare for showing : Bordetterriers should be presented in a condition that looks natural, but the otterresembleing head should be pronounced, the contour/outline should be clean and free of any protruding hairs. But since we're talking about a puppyclass you could maybe get away with a more natural look?

About the showing as such, most judges likes a wellpresented dog in the ring = you make your dog stand so that he/she can view it easily, it doesn't bounce around TO much, you don't stand to close or behind someone else and such things.
Personally I always recomend showing without or with only a minimal amount of treats inside the ring, because I don't know how many people I've seen teaching their dogs that barking = treat, getting up from sitting/sitting down = treat, but standing = one treat after waiting "for ages". My dogs, this far, have been able to wait much more patiently on a small tug-toy that I can fold and carry in my hand, or put in my pocket.


Good luck from Sweden.
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Don't want to put you off, but I showed my BT bitch at the same age at one of the area breed club shows and all I can say is never again. All the other puppies were incredibly well behaved, they were all immaculately stripped out, they all stood like statues and definitely no one licked the judge!. My bitch wasn't naughty and we had done ringcraft classes but I was taken aback by the standard of 6 month old puppies. Also breed showing is incredibly unfriendly, I spoke to the woman standing next to me and she looked at me as if I was something she had scraped of her shoe.
Maybe I was unlucky, I did two breed shows and hated both experiences.
I do competetive agility with both my Borders and vowed never to attempt breed showing again!
 
Oh no
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, we only want to do it for a bit of fun , hope their not like the lot you encountered
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, we will have a go at agility when he's older , Im sure it must be a lot more fun for the dogs
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, thanks for the warning though , pooing ourselves now !! LOL
 
I've showed three breeds, though only in Sweden, but I've been on unofficial, breedspecials, national and international ones, with Norwegian Buhunds, Smooth Collie and Finnish Lapphund, during 18 years now, and I can count the bad loosers/unfriendly attitude persons on my fingers.

Though inside the ring, you rarely exchange more than a word or two (and not a word to the judge unless he/she askes you something first, except if you really don't know what to do next), and as long as the breed is in the ring (unless we're talking about the big breeds with 60, 80 entrys) you can't expect that someone interested in the showresult should be especially interested in changing their focus.
Some can be friendly before "our" breed starts, but usually the most friendly talking, takes place after the breed is finished in the ring. And though some are very competetive, once they're finished in the ring, even they're usually quite okay.

I've heard about breeds that gets a bad attitude around their ring, and it's usually a breed where you can do something with the fur, but then "normal" people starts to object about it, and things changes again. After all, if people with an sportmanshipattitude, allows other people to scare them away, then I can't help to think about a swedish saying "Such master, such dog". And I wouldn't want to buy a breeddog with such an attitude, so maybe they're not doing any good for their breed, in more ways than one...

from Sweden.
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Oh, my dogs really enjoys showing, feeling like the big star, "All the light on me"-moment. I make sure to become just as happy what ever our result is, and never rush out of the ring thinking about getting home as fast as possible. Take an extra moment to praise the dog a little extra once you're outide the ring and then you can start to worry about the x hour drive home and how to get everything back to the car...

from Sweden.
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Oh, I hope you diddn't take my comment the wrong way when I said the dogs would probebly enjoy agility more than showing
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, we entered him hoping it would fun , I really hope the other people are friendly and Teddy behaves himself
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