Well my first show on Sunday was fun! I quite enjoyed it but some things I found rather disturbing, like dogs that were doing as they were told because they were scared of getting walloped, dogs left in crates all day apart from when they were in the ring, and dogs getting a slap for flying their tail even when not in the ring.

The worst had to be the pups with their ears glued together and with weights pulling the tips over!?! What's that about? I can't understand why they are judged on that sort of ear when clearly that is not how they lie naturally until they are mature and even then it's not the norm???

And why can't the tail fly? I don't understand that, if that's how the majority of dogs tail lie then surely that should be the standard to go by? Why have a standard that dogs have to be trained to follow?

you have a lot to learn lol that is only the tip of the iceberg

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Enlighten us Tashi - this is all quite new to me too, what else goes on........

Puppy Love

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And they called it.......Puppy Love xxx

Irish Setter bitch - Tilly 4 yrs
Irish Setter bitch - Eva 15 mths

do the dogs really get slapped???

Yeah, I saw a few just walking around and all of a sudden they got a slap on the tail because it was in the air. Some were checking their dogs in a really aggresive way when they weren't running right and the way people shouted at their dogs was awful.

And why the hell do people breed dogs with shat temprements!?!

will put some on tomorrow off to walk battersea now speak tomoz

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That is terrible!!!!

You will see plenty more things Alan - the tail thing I see all the time - I too have tapped<<<<<TAPPED the tail and said tail at the same time in the past to get the dog to stop flagging its tail....
I agree with your concerns - I too feel the same way - the shouting - being too harsh on dogs etc etc.....
Some dogs need the owner to be stern - I know plenty of dogs that are good as gold until they get to a show and then they play up something cronic - but there are limits!!!!

Jayjay played up to start with but he calmed down by lunch time and not because I was shouting at or hitting him because I left him to it and rewarded him when he was good, start as you mean to go on I say and if he knows he gets rewarded for being good he's going to be good next time.

What I saw certainly wasn't tapping, one dog even yelped and it wasn't even in the ring. I'd rather Jayjay flew his tail they slap him the way some people were.

I think the shouting got to me most because of the dogs reaction, they obviously got more than just shouting when they weren't in public.

I know what you mean - there are ways and means but some people just do as they please and dont have any regard for their dogs......
Thankfully my friends dont feel the need to act in this manner and neither do I