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Wendy said:
Tracy Chamberlain said:
oakmoorehill said:
Mine are in mpd and mpb only their second show and they are very naughty . they will probably be looking for each other and not behaving at all
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Thanks so much for the support, but it sooooo scary. I wouldn't mind so much if I wasn't going into a ring for the first time with so many blooming professionals (w00t) At least all of you know how to stand your dogs properly, poor Millie and Dessie, they did try :b :blink:

I think that I'm just going to go with the flow, and at least I can rest assured that some devious person will capture it on film so that i'll get back and can relive it all over again (w00t)

Can't wait to meet everyone though, that is one good point :D

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Tracy - my first show was a Champ show - don't worry about it - at least you know a lot of us. I knew about 2 people and felt like an absolute idiot! The 2nd show (also a Champ Show) Savvy kangaroo hopped round the ring with Richard and Dawn (breeders there) and her sire's owners there as well. Their comments when I came out of the ring was 'What a naughty girl - she's definitely her father's daughter'

Talk about pressure though LOL

Wendy

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Wendy you forgot to mention the INK episode LOL :oops:

Tracy I tried to PM you but your inbox is full :(

Dessie and I will be there, with a shed load, carolines entered four boys and I Diva......... should be very interesting just getting there LOL (w00t)

Don't worry you're be fine :thumbsup:
 
good luck, at least you will remember it forever! :luck:

oh yeah, John Wayne - better incompetent than incontinent!!!!! :p
 
Millie said:
Wendy you forgot to mention the INK episode LOL  :oops:
Tracy I tried to PM you but your inbox is full  :(

Dessie and I will be there, with a shed load, carolines entered four boys and I Diva......... should be very interesting just getting there LOL  (w00t)

Don't worry you're be fine  :thumbsup:

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Yup - I actually tell that one quite a bit. That was the 'make or break' day of my showing. Savvy was about 9 months old - it was Richmond and someone had dropped an exploded biro by the ring. It was windy and Savvy was being skittish and just as I went to walk in the ring I noticed this HUGE PURPLE STRIPE down her white leg on her show side. In one of her 'skittish' moments she must have slid through it.

It never occurred to me to NOT take her in. I got to the end of the line and tried showing her the other way round (not happening) and Nick got me a wet towel. Wendy (Millie) and Caroline saw what was going on and handed me a pack of lemon wet wipes (now a staple in my show bag though I've not been able to find any more for ages). The judge saw her with the purple stripe and asked what happened and said she was fine if I showed her the other way. There were 20+ in the class, so plenty of time to clean her up and those wipes got it all off!! (Thanks again!). Got to the table and the judge was amazed it was gone. But by this time Savvy was a mess. Not only was it windy and noisy (tent blowing), but I had just spent 10 minutes scrubbing her and 'we don't do that in the ring', so she was really off. The judge gave us a couple of chances at the down and back, but she was badly off.

But because the people outside the ring were wonderful and helpful to a stranger in trouble, and the judge was so understanding, and just a bunch of things about the whole situation - it was actually that day that I decided we were going to keep showing (hubby thought I'd quit for sure).

I actually find it really funny now and often tell people about the time I took the purple whippet into the ring - after all - colour is immaterial.

Wendy
 
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Millie said:
Wendy said:
Tracy Chamberlain said:
oakmoorehill said:
Mine are in mpd and mpb only their second show and they are very naughty . they will probably be looking for each other and not behaving at all
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Thanks so much for the support, but it sooooo scary. I wouldn't mind so much if I wasn't going into a ring for the first time with so many blooming professionals (w00t) At least all of you know how to stand your dogs properly, poor Millie and Dessie, they did try :b :blink:

I think that I'm just going to go with the flow, and at least I can rest assured that some devious person will capture it on film so that i'll get back and can relive it all over again (w00t)

Can't wait to meet everyone though, that is one good point :D

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Tracy - my first show was a Champ show - don't worry about it - at least you know a lot of us. I knew about 2 people and felt like an absolute idiot! The 2nd show (also a Champ Show) Savvy kangaroo hopped round the ring with Richard and Dawn (breeders there) and her sire's owners there as well. Their comments when I came out of the ring was 'What a naughty girl - she's definitely her father's daughter'

Talk about pressure though LOL

Wendy

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Wendy you forgot to mention the INK episode LOL :oops:

Tracy I tried to PM you but your inbox is full :(

Dessie and I will be there, with a shed load, carolines entered four boys and I Diva......... should be very interesting just getting there LOL (w00t)

Don't worry you're be fine :thumbsup:

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Sorry about the full up mailbox, I've emptied some out now. Glad you and Caroline are coming though, mind you I think I might get told off, Ollie will still look too thin :( Jake on the other hand looks like a barrel :- "
 
Wendy said:
Millie said:
Wendy you forgot to mention the INK episode LOL  :oops:
Tracy I tried to PM you but your inbox is full  :(

Dessie and I will be there, with a shed load, carolines entered four boys and I Diva......... should be very interesting just getting there LOL  (w00t)

Don't worry you're be fine  :thumbsup:

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Yup - I actually tell that one quite a bit. That was the 'make or break' day of my showing. Savvy was about 9 months old - it was Richmond and someone had dropped an exploded biro by the ring. It was windy and Savvy was being skittish and just as I went to walk in the ring I noticed this HUGE PURPLE STRIPE down her white leg on her show side. In one of her 'skittish' moments she must have slid through it.

It never occurred to me to NOT take her in. I got to the end of the line and tried showing her the other way round (not happening) and Nick got me a wet towel. Wendy (Millie) and Caroline saw what was going on and handed me a pack of lemon wet wipes (now a staple in my show bag though I've not been able to find any more for ages). The judge saw her with the purple stripe and asked what happened and said she was fine if I showed her the other way. There were 20+ in the class, so plenty of time to clean her up and those wipes got it all off!! (Thanks again!). Got to the table and the judge was amazed it was gone. But by this time Savvy was a mess. Not only was it windy and noisy (tent blowing), but I had just spent 10 minutes scrubbing her and 'we don't do that in the ring', so she was really off. The judge gave us a couple of chances at the down and back, but she was badly off.

But because the people outside the ring were wonderful and helpful to a stranger in trouble, and the judge was so understanding, and just a bunch of things about the whole situation - it was actually that day that I decided we were going to keep showing (hubby thought I'd quit for sure).

I actually find it really funny now and often tell people about the time I took the purple whippet into the ring - after all - colour is immaterial.

Wendy

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Hi Wendy,

This story is lovely. I know it must have been traumatic for both you and Savvy but it makes me realise it's not just me who will have a bad first experience! It also shows me that people are as kind and helpful as I think they are :thumbsup:

Looking forward to seeing you again on Saturday
 
doris said:
good luck, at least you will remember it forever! :luck:
oh yeah, John Wayne - better incompetent than incontinent!!!!! :p

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(w00t) LOL (w00t)

I even thought that when I typed it Doris!
 
Zephyr said:
Hi Tracy - please rest assured that lots of us know exactly how you feel - it is quite unnerving to be 'on show' in front of lots of people who have been doing it for ages - but not all of them have, and everyone had to start somewhere! :thumbsup:
At a champ show recently, I was walking past the rhodesian ridgeback ring, and a beautifully turned out competitor started to run round the ring with her beautiful but VERY KEEN  hound - in a split second, he ran a bit too fast, pulled her over flat on her face, she held on for dear life, and he dragged her face down on the grass back to the judge!!! (w00t)   (w00t)   (w00t)

Now that WAS embarassing, but it is safe to say that most of us watching were thinking ' thank God that wasn't ME!!!!!' :b   :b   :- "

Looking forward to seeing you Saturday, with my dog who behaves beautifully sometimes, and like an absolute little  :rant:   :devil: at others, and I never know which it is going to be till I get there!! :b   :angry:   :- "

GOOD LUCK :luck:   :luck:   :luck:   :luck:

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Haha, love that tale (w00t)

I have had a good think over night and you are most definitely right, everyone does have to start somewhere.

Hey ho, at least I will remember it, and everyone can tell the story of the mad woman who thought she could enter a champ show after 3 classes and SHE couldn't even walk properly, let alone her dogs (w00t)

Looking forward to meeting up with you
 
Tracy Chamberlain said:
Hi Wendy,
This story is lovely. I know it must have been traumatic for both you and Savvy but it makes me realise it's not just me who will have a bad first experience! It also shows me that people are as kind and helpful as I think they are :thumbsup:

Looking forward to seeing you again on Saturday

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I meant to put in (but don't think I did) that I didn't know Wendy and Caroline at all at the time. So I was just blown away by how helpful people were. I posted 'thank you's' on a few boards, hoping that the thanks would get back to them somehow and it turned out they were members on this board.

Tracy you'll do fine. I can't wait to meet your boys.

Wendy
 
Tracy Chamberlain said:
I have had a good think over night and you are most definitely right, everyone does have to start somewhere.
Hey ho, at least I will remember it, and everyone can tell the story of the mad woman who thought she could enter a champ show after 3 classes and SHE couldn't even walk properly, let alone her dogs  (w00t)

Looking forward to meeting up with you

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It'll be nice to see you again Tracy and you've met Django and know what a blithering idiot HE is. Fidget-arse extraordinaire!!!!
 
Zephyr said:
At a champ show recently, I was walking past the rhodesian ridgeback ring, and a beautifully turned out competitor started to run round the ring with her beautiful but VERY KEEN  hound - in a split second, he ran a bit too fast, pulled her over flat on her face, she held on for dear life, and he dragged her face down on the grass back to the judge!!! (w00t)   (w00t)   (w00t)
Now that WAS embarassing, but it is safe to say that most of us watching were thinking ' thank God that wasn't ME!!!!!' :b   :b   :- "

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Now I wish I had seen that! :lol: I think I would have PMSL!!! (w00t) :oops:
 
dessie said:
Tracy Chamberlain said:
I have had a good think over night and you are most definitely right, everyone does have to start somewhere.
Hey ho, at least I will remember it, and everyone can tell the story of the mad woman who thought she could enter a champ show after 3 classes and SHE couldn't even walk properly, let alone her dogs  (w00t)

Looking forward to meeting up with you

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It'll be nice to see you again Tracy and you've met Django and know what a blithering idiot HE is. Fidget-arse extraordinaire!!!!

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Hi Dessie,

I'm so glad that you're coming, and it will be lovely to see Django too.

I was only thinking of him last night when I needed some thyme from the garden. Remembered Django's copious watering and got some dried stuff out of the cupboard instead :x
 
Wendy said:
Millie said:
Wendy you forgot to mention the INK episode LOL  :oops:
Tracy I tried to PM you but your inbox is full  :(

Dessie and I will be there, with a shed load, carolines entered four boys and I Diva......... should be very interesting just getting there LOL  (w00t)

Don't worry you're be fine  :thumbsup:

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Yup - I actually tell that one quite a bit. That was the 'make or break' day of my showing. Savvy was about 9 months old - it was Richmond and someone had dropped an exploded biro by the ring. It was windy and Savvy was being skittish and just as I went to walk in the ring I noticed this HUGE PURPLE STRIPE down her white leg on her show side. In one of her 'skittish' moments she must have slid through it.

Something similar happened to me but at a limit show .OH got home from work before me the dogs were bathed the day before as Bandit's white was more brown( clay soil round here) When I arrived home he asked who had chewed a pen up obviously I didn't know until we stopped to put petrol in half way to the show.I turned to see what he dogs were doing and saw Bandit covered in blue ink.

I rushed into the garage and got some baby wipes .Fortunately it was our club show and with the help of washing up liquid (not something Iwould normally use) we managed to get him clean before his class. I ever occurred to me to NOT take her in. I got to the end of the line and tried showing her the other way round (not happening) and Nick got me a wet towel. Wendy (Millie) and Caroline saw what was going on and handed me a pack of lemon wet wipes (now a staple in my show bag though I've not been able to find any more for ages). The judge saw her with the purple stripe and asked what happened and said she was fine if I showed her the other way. There were 20+ in the class, so plenty of time to clean her up and those wipes got it all off!! (Thanks again!). Got to the table and the judge was amazed it was gone. But by this time Savvy was a mess. Not only was it windy and noisy (tent blowing), but I had just spent 10 minutes scrubbing her and 'we don't do that in the ring', so she was really off. The judge gave us a couple of chances at the down and back, but she was badly off.

But because the people outside the ring were wonderful and helpful to a stranger in trouble, and the judge was so understanding, and just a bunch of things about the whole situation - it was actually that day that I decided we were going to keep showing (hubby thought I'd quit for sure).

I actually find it really funny now and often tell people about the time I took the purple whippet into the ring - after all - colour is immaterial.

Wendy

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oakmoorehill said:
:oops: DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THERE
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I suspect this (in the middle of my quote) was what you were saying :D

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Something similar happened to me but at a limit show .OH got home from work before me the dogs were bathed the day before as Bandit's white was more brown( clay soil round here) When I arrived home he asked who had chewed a pen up obviously I didn't know until we stopped to put petrol in half way to the show.I turned to see what he dogs were doing and saw Bandit covered in blue ink.

I rushed into the garage and got some baby wipes .Fortunately it was our club show and with the help of washing up liquid (not something Iwould normally use) we managed to get him clean before his class.

___

Wendy
 
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Yes thanks thats how it should have been.Don't know what I did to it.
 
Well folks, I did get there and had a great time, even if it didn't go according to plan (w00t)

I decided to take the BMW (normally off limits to doggies :- " ) as the corsa is manual so would be harder on my leg. So because we'd taken the nice, more reliable vehicle, IT BROKE DOWN. :rant: Once we were helped by the lovely guy from mondial, we arrived by the skin of our teeth.

This was really unfair on Jake, who barely had time for a wee before he had to go in the ring. Much to my horror they asked for us in numerical order, so guess who was first :(

We had a great time, I could hardly walk and Jake just wanted to roll around on the floor while we waited for everyone else.

So, up on the table we go. Jake was a good boy here, I didn't have a blooming clue, but he was great and stood completely still while the judge examined him. I was sooo grateful to him for just taking all of my lifting an positioning in his stride :wub: I did apologise for being such an amateur as she said "first time for both of you?" but was very nice to me and calming for Jake.

We did our triangle (probaby looked more like an octagon to everyone else :b ) and went to the back of the line for some more rolling around on the floor........

Needless to say we didn't hesitate in leaving the ring!

Then I went and got Ollie and back into the ring we went. My boy was lovely and stood really nicely, but as I got back up from bending, I really hurt my leg and so asked the steward if it was alright just to leave the ring. He marked me down as a "withdraw" and we went to have a nice cuddle.

We stayed to watch Dessie take first with Django and also saw Wendy with Savvy in the bitch ring, but then my leg was really painful and we headed off after saying hello to Janfiers. (Sorry I didn't make it back for 12.30 Jan and hope all went well with the party :thumbsup:

All in all, a VERY steep learning curve, but we had fun and will probably set ourselves up for another disaster again, but I shall be waiting until my leg is fully recovered :blink:
 
What a shame we never got to meet ( did we ? ). Hope you`r leg and Car gets better soon :cheers:
 
Tracy Chamberlain said:
Well folks, I did get there and had a great time, even if it didn't go according to plan  (w00t)
I decided to take the BMW (normally off limits to doggies  :- " ) as the corsa is manual so would be harder on my leg. So because we'd taken the nice, more reliable vehicle, IT BROKE DOWN.  :rant: Once we were helped by the lovely guy from mondial, we arrived by the skin of our teeth.

This was really unfair on Jake, who barely had time for a wee before he had to go in the ring. Much to my horror they asked for us in numerical order, so guess who was first  :(

We had a great time, I could hardly walk and Jake just wanted to roll around on the floor while we waited for everyone else.

So, up on the table we go. Jake was a good boy here, I didn't have a blooming clue, but he was great and stood completely still while the judge examined him. I was sooo grateful to him for just taking all of my lifting an positioning in his stride  :wub:   I did apologise for being such an amateur as she said "first time for both of you?" but was very nice to me and calming for Jake.

We did our triangle (probaby looked more like an octagon to everyone else  :b ) and went to the back of the line for some more rolling around on the floor........

Needless to say we didn't hesitate in leaving the ring!

Then I went and got Ollie and back into the ring we went. My boy was lovely and stood really nicely, but as I got back up from bending, I really hurt my leg and so asked the steward if it was alright just to leave the ring. He marked me down as a "withdraw" and we went to have a nice cuddle.

We stayed to watch Dessie take first with Django and also saw Wendy with Savvy in the bitch ring, but then my leg was really painful and we headed off after saying hello to Janfiers. (Sorry I didn't make it back for 12.30 Jan and hope all went well with the party  :thumbsup:

All in all, a VERY steep learning curve, but we had fun and will probably set ourselves up for another disaster again, but I shall be waiting until my leg is fully recovered  :blink:

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sounds like you had a heck of a day hope your leg gets better soon and sorry we didnt get to meet :(
 
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