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Hairyloon



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 12, 15 12:36 am    Post subject: Best in Show? Reply with quote
    

For some reason an email about Crufts dropped into my inbox...



Does not seem to me to be the best way to pick up a dog, but I doubt that that is the worst thing that happens at dog shows...

Anyhoo, if it bothers you enough, there is a petition about it.

robkb



Joined: 29 May 2009
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Location: SE London
PostPosted: Thu Mar 12, 15 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The dog is clearly levitating, she's just trying to hold it down...

tahir



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Location: Essex
PostPosted: Thu Mar 12, 15 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

robkb wrote:
The dog is clearly levitating, she's just trying to hold it down...



joanne



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Location: Morecambe, Lancashire
PostPosted: Thu Mar 12, 15 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It's a common way to pick up terriers and whilst I don't like it and never have it's been going on for years.

As for worse things that go on at Dog Shows, boredom is the main one, sitting around waiting for your class in a cold building.

Dog shows aren't this mysterious environment where people commit atrocities, they are usually full of middle aged or retired women with a few men scattered about bitching about each other and each others dogs.

And that's with 40 years of dog show experiences, I've been around the scene since I was 4/5 when my Mum got a rescue Golden Retriever called Chester and his breeder advised her that he would be great to show

mal55



Joined: 15 Jul 2009
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Location: Erewash or in the dog house
PostPosted: Fri Mar 13, 15 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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Dog shows aren't this mysterious environment where people commit atrocities, they are usually full of middle aged or retired women with a few men scattered about bitching about each other and each others dogs.


Don't forget plotting how to get their dogs made up! "You put her dog first at such and such a show, she'll put mine first at so and so then I'll make yours up at you know where."

Despite all the politics and "face" judging we had a lot of fun showing our dogs, met some fantastic people, made lifelong friends and learned a lot about dogs. Some show people will do whatever they can to win including breeding dogs to accentuate deformity as in GSDs but most are people like us, who's dogs sleep on their beds and are loved with the kind of devotion that they give us!

What concerned me more about Crufts was the setter that was poisoned. I dare say that we'll never find out who did it or why it was done but I doubt that even the most competitive owner would stoop to this -the cash rewards are just too low to even consider it. I think it's much more liekly to be some animal rights nutter out to scare people into keeping their much loved pets away from shows.

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