Murphy's Laws as pertaining to Dog Shows.


1. After trying forever to obtain that elusive
second major, you have no problem getting the third major the next
day.

2. The novice people that enter every show and
drive 8 hours even if you show at 8am will not show up on the day
that it is exactly a major.

3. If you try to build a major, the stuffer will
win.

4. Your dog needs a major to finish. You drive
12 hours to a 3-day circuit to discover the superintendent erred in
the count and you are one short of a major--and of course your dog
is WD. You go home, as the next 2 days are not majors. You get a
call Monday morning.the super erred again.the following 2 days were
majors and your dog would have probably won, as the judges were
great for him.

5. The day you leave your mud boots home because
it is the middle of a drought; there will be 12 inches of rain.

6. Although every dog show has dozens of
vendors, the day you forget your tack box, will be the day the
vendors have no show leads.

7. If you go to the trouble of checking out of
the hotel before you show, you will not win breed.

8. If you don't check out of the hotel before
you show, you will win breed and there will be no time to go back
and check out before the group.

9. Your National is always scheduled 2 days
ahead of your most promising puppy's 6-month birthday.

10. Your dog will totally blow coat one week before
the National, and after you have paid for hotel, airline, banquets,
etc.

11. The day you say, "If Buffy doesn't do something
today, off to a pet home she goes!", she wins a 5 point major. Of
course she never wins another point and all the pet homes have
fallen off the face of the earth.

12. And, we all know about the now neutered puppy we
sold as a pet and the littermate we kept as a show prospect..

13. If your dog does better as a follower, you will
always be forced to be first in line.

14. And of course, if your dog does best at the
front of the line, someone will have already beaten you there.

15. The judge you didn't enter under because he
hates you/your dogs/your new hair style/whatever draws an overload
and your favorite judge in the entire world picks up the overload.

16. Whenever the group judge is one that adores your
dog, the breed judge will be the one that told you to pet your dog
out. But, if you don't enter, refer to rule 15.)

17. A particular judge always puts up the dog for
Best of Winners unless YOUR dog goes Winners Dog and there is only a
major in bitches.

18. When you enter a small show that normally has no
Specials, 5 of the top 10 dogs in the country will be there.

19. If you do win an easy breed at PoDunk, NoWhere,
you will then learn that a dozen top dogs and their handlers have
flown in from the furthest corners of the country and they're all in
the Toy Group.

20. If you win the Group, you will discover that the
BIS judge's all time favorite dog has just won it's group and the
BIS judge has already given it several BIS

Thank you for sending this in. It really gave me a good laugh. I needed that today.
Bless you

How about you enter a dog just for experience, and it beats the one you really wanted the points on, which then goes reserve. It's happened to me several times.

That would be the "stuffer"...

LOL, we used to call "stuffers" "Major Fodder"...same difference! This piece really made my day!

That was a good one, thank you for posting