[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: majors / not showing dogs / long
- From: "Liane Fossland" <lfossland@xxxxxxx>
- To: <KHeckman@xxxxxxxxx>, <Pinehillgsds@xxxxxxx>, <Rbuffdogs@xxxxxxx>, <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <dir@xxxxxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 12:03:47 -0700
Puppy classes are ok. They need that experience and you also get a picture
as how good your puppy is compared to the other puppies. A puppy win is just
like icing on the cake. That is fun. But once they are no longer puppies
then the seriousness begins.
Lee
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Katherine Heckman
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Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: majors / not showing dogs / long
Now maybe I'm totally missing all the points, but I have not been in the
ring, and I'm waiting ever so impatiently to do so...
My puppy bitch is only 4mo.
So I ask this, What age are they ready, and if you don't show a puppy,
why are there puppy classes? I would gladly show her at 6mo. If there
were a show close enough to get to. Why not go to the shows and learn,
for the both of you. I thought this was supposed to be fun, cause it
sure ain't cheap.
Kathy H.
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Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] majors / not showing dogs / long
In a message dated 10/1/2006 2:33:11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
Rbuffdogs@xxxxxxx writes:
I saw OC members with dogs on site but not entered. I saw other
people
that enter majors on site, WITH dogs, but NOT entered.
Something came up yesterday that reminded me of a situation that
happened to
me that could be the answer to folks w/ lots and lots of dogs outside
of the
ring, being socialized, being worked by handlers, being evaluated and
NOT
entered.......
When I first ventured from the performance ring to the breed ring, I
went to
a very BIG Guardian, plunked down very BIG money and waited for a
puppy.
He had serious health (epilepsy) and structural issues and didn't work
out.
It took close to 2 years to receive his replacement, who was dead with
a
serious health issue before her second b-day (hemolytic anemia). No
names. But I
preface what I am about to say because I want you to understand that in
the
meantime, all I could so was watch from the ringside, heart aching
because
of the health issues with still nothing to show. It wasn't a lot of
fun.
Someone took pity on me and sold me a promising youngster. Now, I was
just dying
to show. Didn't care who the judge was, didn't care how many older
stars my
handler was on, didn't care about the politics, didn't care how far
away I
had to go, stay overnight, etc., etc. I went to every match I could
find and
training class 2x a week. He was shown 7 times as a puppy at
specialties and
won EVERY PUPPY CLASS and picked up some nice BPs and BOPs along the
way.
(John De Hope called and said he's a baby, only show 1x a
weekend...don't do
too much!!!) Oh, and I advertised, the Review, the Quarterly, the
backs of
catalogs, I entered his Futurity...all of it.
Then at our club meeting, we had a (big name, but no names here)
speaker.
Politely she asked how I was doing and, so happy that I finally had
something
to show, (remember, to put it in context, I had been waiting years), I
was
just gushing. "Well", she said, "WE don't show them until they are
ready",
"Why would WE want to make points for others?", "WHY, IF you have a
nice dog,
would you drag him around?", "WHY would you get him beat by his own
immaturity
and allow a lesser dog to have bragging rights???"
Well, it was like all of the air was let out of a balloon. So, that
was the
way it was done. I went home and looked at his pictures, the
advertisements, and yup, he looked young. Even though I had been
enjoying the heck out of
it, I saw now that I had indeed been getting him beat. I was showing
him
before he was "ready". I felt very foolish.
Guess how many puppies I have campaigned since? None. In fact, I think
I've
only entered 1 Specialty match since too.
Now, it's "Are they ready?", "Who's the judge", "What older dog if any
in
the same sex is my handler on?", "If I'm showing a bitch and my handler
has a
nice dog, will this judge be inclined to spread it around...or not?",
yada,
yada, yada.
I learned. You don't have to tell me twice.
Our fall specialties are rolling around and I guarantee you, there will
be
4-5x as many dogs outside the ring as inside. Handlers will work dogs
after,
youngsters will be evaluated. Why not show them? Because like me,
their
people probably realize they aren't ready or maybe it isn't a good
situation.
Sad:( I really enjoyed those puppy classes. But it's OK in the long
run.
While I have a youngster growing up, I'll play with performance.
Kathy
member GSDCA, DVGSDC
three generations of Dual Titled TC'd Champions live here!
visit _Pine Hill German Shepherd Dogs_
(http://www.geocities.com/pinehillgsds/)
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