Labrador Retriever Forum
Here we go again with the trouble makers creating trouble here................as there was no drama at the shows.
I just checked the catalog and there was not a single littermate competing in a class against each other!!!
And only one mother/daughter combination.
Hey here's a tip, enter your dogs and take your chances, if they are better than what's showing then you will win the points!
BOB was Ch. Signal Hill Joey - Joe Napolitano is his handler 
The dogs that won.................won! Congratulations to the owners, breeders and handlers.
The dogs that were not entered had no chance!
Make it all about the dogs, take advantage of the entries, because they are way down everywhere else.
Enter your dogs and let the best dogs win!
Credit to where credit is due.
The breeders that are responsible for the quality, not just the immediate ones in the catalog, but also the ones 2,3,4,5…and further generations back. Whether they are the “big names” with multiple litters a year or the “small fry” with a couple of litters to their credit, they are responsible for perpetuating the great traits from those foundation dogs of the past.
To the owners that are responsible for the preparation and all that it entails, all the time, energy and money that is needed to bring a dog along and then to enter it at the dogs shows over and over again. With today’s economic situation, that must really be huge hardship on most and I am sure that many dogs showing today will exhaust the available funds needed to finish! With the falling numbers at the dog shows, majors will not be available even in those areas where they were once plentiful, so finishing a dog will require much fortitude.
To the handlers that do their very best to present the dogs in their best light, win the largest percent of the time and make a living doing something they really like doing and are really good at it and must stay neutral through all the emotional stuff that naturally occurs at a dog show!
To the local dog clubs that are suffering big time just breaking even and some are on the verge of folding up the tents and weathering the storm. Membership is way down, even with some of the old timer clubs and volunteers are hard to find.
To the AKC that is being affronted on many sides and finding it very difficult to stay afloat themselves.
Without any of the above cast members, this dog show stuff will end. It has been an American way of life for many, many years and for many, many people it has been a 3,4, or more family generation thing.
Yes, congratulations to all that were involved at the dog show in Ft Lauderdale and everywhere across the country and world. Let’s hope that in 10 year’s time we can still rejoice having dogs, raising dogs and going out in public with them!
Unfortunetly, AKC bases the point schedule on a 3 year mean average, so 3 year's worth of entries are used to come up with the new year's point schedule. PLUS specialty entries are added to the all breed numbers to come up with the total for each area. Absent dogs are not excluded, so all those dogs that are entered at specialties as a form of catalog advertising will be included in averaging for the new years schedule. So, it will be a couple of years before we benefit from the lowered entries we see today. We can always pack up and take a vacation in Puerto Rico where something less than 10 dogs is a major.
The breeders that are responsible for the quality, not just the immediate ones in the catalog, but also the ones 2,3,4,5…and further generations back. Whether they are the “big names” with multiple litters a year or the “small fry” with a couple of litters to their credit, they are responsible for perpetuating the great traits from those foundation dogs of the past.
To the owners that are responsible for the preparation and all that it entails, all the time, energy and money that is needed to bring a dog along and then to enter it at the dogs shows over and over again. With today’s economic situation, that must really be huge hardship on most and I am sure that many dogs showing today will exhaust the available funds needed to finish! With the falling numbers at the dog shows, majors will not be available even in those areas where they were once plentiful, so finishing a dog will require much fortitude.
To the handlers that do their very best to present the dogs in their best light, win the largest percent of the time and make a living doing something they really like doing and are really good at it and must stay neutral through all the emotional stuff that naturally occurs at a dog show!
To the local dog clubs that are suffering big time just breaking even and some are on the verge of folding up the tents and weathering the storm. Membership is way down, even with some of the old timer clubs and volunteers are hard to find.
To the AKC that is being affronted on many sides and finding it very difficult to stay afloat themselves.
Without any of the above cast members, this dog show stuff will end. It has been an American way of life for many, many years and for many, many people it has been a 3,4, or more family generation thing.
Yes, congratulations to all that were involved at the dog show in Ft Lauderdale and everywhere across the country and world. Let’s hope that in 10 year’s time we can still rejoice having dogs, raising dogs and going out in public with them!
Finally you are realizing that it is not all about just you. Be happy with what you have because it can all be pulled out from under you quicker than you can blink one eye. None of us are at power here. You need other breeders dogs just as much as they need yours to make the numbers. As one idiot wrote, "it does not take three dogs to make a major" and that is correct, but it can take three dogs to make or break a major.
Don't be so high and mighty that you are bringing out so many dogs to make the numbers and that other breeders should thank you for it. You are only bringing out all of those dogs to benefit yourself.
Stop the madness.
Do you have a crystal ball? Do you know who everyone that posts here is?
It was too good to be true. Leave it be. No one really wants to hear this same stuff over again. Go have some coffee and play with your dog for therapy!
To Anono:
That is some scary stuff. If I was this breeder I would be looking over my shoulder. This sounds like a heavy duty obsession you have here! It even sounds like a threat! Get over it and get on with your life!
The dogs that were not entered had no chance!
Make it all about the dogs, take advantage of the entries, because they are way down everywhere else.
Enter your dogs and let the best dogs win!
Check the breed counts in Raleigh, N.C.
Yep, the dogs that won...........won, the dogs that weren't entered didn't have a chance.................if you think you have quality, competitive dogs, enter them and take your chances!
All it takes is to enter a dog with some coat and type and you can clean up in south florida
Don't forget to do your entries because if you don't enter your dogs they won't have a chance in heck and then you won't have a second chance to whine and complain if they don't win
where are these dogs that can clean up in s fl or all of fl or anywhere else? I agree, can't win if you don't play, like the saying says "let the best dogs win", but you can't win if you don't show up,
show up and let the good times roll!
so what you are saying is that there is no one else in Florida with dogs that are competitive to the ones that are now showing? that someone has bred for the upper hand and that no one wants to compete against those dogs that are now winning? if that is the case, then don't whine and complain when those are the only dogs that show up at the Fl dog shows!
no! they do not show up because they want to compete against some real competition
to the poster that mentioned the greyhounds, you sound like one of the ones that was been breeding for a long time and can't even beat the greyhounds you mentioned, so go to the GA,SC, NC or better yet stick to the panhandle shows where you may pick up 1 pointers here and there
first of all apply that to your own dogs if you are a breeder, then let us know where we can see your dogs, then do yourself a favor and go back and see who does the name calling and the instigating here and you will see that the person you are referring to doesn't need to come here and prove a point.
