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After hearing about the lady with the ripped dress while patsy was judging in the states i laughed for ages and wondered if anybody else has any funny stories to share? (w00t) obviously no names please lol they will never live it down lol :D
 
I think lots of people know about the time that we went to Southern Counties, at Crawley with the caravan. We were getting close to the venue and I got the schedule out to check the final instructions only to discover.............................I had directed us to the wrong Crawley!! We were stuck in a several miles queue with no turnoff as there was a festival on nearby. Mark was very good and drove the 50 miles back the way we had come! (w00t) Oddly enough they moved venue the next year. :- " It must be that show as the next year I had a new pair of trousers that promptly split all down the inside leg!! The kind ladies in the secretary's tent sewed me up and they even mentioned me in the write up! :lol: :lol:
 
We once went to a Club Match which was being held in the grounds of the Chairman's beautiful home. It was a combination of annual social get-together and garden party. I had my Borzoi and thought I really looked the part in my summer dress, flowing tresses and elegant dog.

All was going along along fine until I bent down to pick up my brush, in doing so I stepped back, tripped over an edging stone and fell in the garden pond. The Chairman's good lady took me indoors, where I got dried off and she lent me something to wear, she was about 70 and I was about 18. When I came back down my dad said, "it's a good job the dog didn't get wet, we'd have had a 'ell of a job tying to get her dry, and what the bl...y h..l are you wearing".

Jenny
 
i once turned up to a show ............... a day late (w00t)

i thought it was on a sunday but after a good half hour wondering why i was the only one there , i went home to look at the schedule ( which i forgot too and i usually take it with me ) just to find out that the show was the saturday and NOT the sunday :b
 
saraquele said:
i once turned up to a show ............... a day late  (w00t)
i thought it was on a sunday but after a good half hour wondering why i was the only one there , i went home to look at the schedule ( which i forgot too and i usually take it with me )  just to find out that the show was the saturday and NOT  the sunday  :b


i can remember you posting about that :lol: :lol:
 
I slept in on the morning of a show where I'd entered a puppy. Rushing round to get everything done in half the time, I grabbed a soft bed from the sitting room and threw it into the car. Then I grabbed the puppy and her mother and put them into the bed. Driving to the show I thought I heard something crunching behind me, but couldn't stop to see what was happening. I got to the show, with about 20 minutes before the puppy was due in the ring, only to find that my carefully bathed fawn & white particolour now had sticky purple stripes all down one side from the biro she had chewed in the car! (w00t) I rushed round the stalls like a mad thing trailing the puppy behind me, and I can vouch for Doreen Paige's 'No water' shampoo - it removes biro ink!! The lovely lady on the stall wasn't sure if it would work, so she tried it out before I paid for it - and she even gave me a roll of kitchen paper!!
 
:lol: Some good stories so far :thumbsup:
 
I entered a couple of dogs for three days of early summer shows in Virginia on the banks of the James river, near where it enters the sea. I decided that I would make a family vacation out of it, so we started packing up to go. My husband hitched up the boat and trailer to his vehicle, packed all our clothes and the fishing gear, and I started packing my dogs and crates, and coolers, etc. in mine, and away we went. I had 8 crates because I had six adult dogs and two young pups with me. We also had my four year old son, and all his gear and stuff.

Four hours later, we got to the hotel and we took in all our stuff and locked down the boat, and then I started taking out dogs and walking them and moving their kennels into the room.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 dogs and then I got to the crates in the very back....oops. One was empty.

"Honey, did you take out Katie?"

"No, I thought you took her out."

"She's not here."

Katie-pie had hidden herself somewhere in the house and we had forgotten entirely to pack her. I was throwing dogs in the van, my husband was throwing dogs in the van, and I guess at some point in the frantic packing, we looked around and didn't see any more dogs left to pack, and away we went.

Oops.

They joke about people who pack so much stuff to take to the dog show that they forget to pack the dog, but I can tell you, this actually happened.

It was a cannon ball run home for me in the middle of the night that night, where I was greeted by a very annoyed and irate Katie-pie. I slept a couple of hours and got up just in time to get to the show and show the dogs, and then I went back to the hotel, and reclaimed my husband and son. They were ready to go fishing, and all I wanted to do was crawl into the bed and sleep!
 
Many :- " years ago I was showing a white puppy bitch who was entered at a Breed Champ show, overslept, friend who was picking me up also overslept then said not coming :blink:

Threw a paddy :rant: hubby said "no prob" as at that time was proud of his fast 2 seater sports car......why oh why do men have to 'prove' their driving skills in these cars :- " We were 'pushed' up the dual carriageway by another, so down went the foot, up came pups breakfast........... :oops: :rant:

Dashed ino the venue with time to spare :sweating: , straight into the ladies loo, pup into sink then deployed the hand drier :eek: The looks I had that day ;)

Anyway happy ending, she took BBP, but not a way I would like to try again :teehee: :teehee:
 
There's a few funny ones i can think of.

A well known Doyen of IG's who was a very sedate lady indeed was once trotting graciously round the ring with her rather exquisite IG when her knicker elastic broke & they fell down around her ankles in the midst of doing her triangle. (w00t)

She calmly stepped out of them & carried on her trot as if nothing had happened :b

The judge neither commented or raised his eyebrows but the steward handed them discreetly to her aftewards with the words " i think madam has mislaid something" :lol:

I remember 20 odd years travelling to a show with a friend & upon arriving she realised she bought two totally wrong dogs with her & left the ones that she had entered at home :eek: After frantic calls to her husband he had to come haring up the motorway with the 2 correct dogs & take the other 2 back home, he was not best pleased at 5.30am :p

My worst moment & i can look back & laugh now BUT at the time it was NOT funny was many years ago at the Bournemouth show. It had been beautiful blazing hot weather for a good week before, so i arrived at the show in a pale pink summer top & beautiful cream chiffon long floaty summer skirt :)

It pelted with rain from the time we arrived & did not let up all day :(

We sheltered in the horrible wet weather tent but just before judging started i had to answer the call of nature. The toilets were outside the portable ones with little metal stairs up into like a portable caravan, so i managed to borrow an unbrella & off i went.

All was fine until on the way back coming out of the toilets i slipped on the metal stairs that were so wet, went flying forward straight into the biggest puddle of mud ever & landed on all fours :eek:

I had no change of clothes, no coat so you can imagine i went into the ring looking like i had just fought & lost a mud wrestling competition (w00t)
 
A friend of mine in Finland was showing his imported welsh terrier for the first time, under a Swedish all-rounder known to be a bit “strict” in the ring. My friend asked the judge if he possibly could go over the dog on the ground as he did not like tables. No problem the judge said, leaned forward down towards the dog and since the judge was wearing a tie but nothing to keep it in place, the tie was thrown forward. The terrier found the tie very amusing so he grabbed it and started a tug o war with it and the result of this was that the judge flew like a DC 9 in the air landing on his belly on the ground!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D He did win the CC but the judge was not very amused….

Henrik
 
Back in the early 90s there were a few exhibitors at US shows in our region who started to do very arty presentations while exhibiting their dogs in conformation shows. While gaiting the dog, doing the triangles etc. these individuals did what they conceived of as artful moves with their free arm, and upper body, in what we think was supposed to be inspired by the grace of ballet dancers. While they must have thought this was attractive, and an artful way of presenting a whippet, the reality was everyone was so gobsmacked watching the exhibitor's antics that hardly any one took notice of the dog. Not good when it is supposed to be the one winning the points.

A couple of friends and I watched this over the course of a show weekend, and out of a very boozy late evening discussion of this latest way of showing, we conceived the perfect foil for this sort of exhibitionism. Over the course of the summer we took one of our whippets with just one leg to go on her obedience title, and taught her to exhibit herself on the basis of hand signals she was given -- leashless. So when the judge would say 'take the dog around please' my Jenny was trained to go around by herself, return and stand still beside the judge and wait for the next instruction. Thereafter she jumped onto the examination table by herself, and when the judge asked that the dog be taken down or back, or in a triangle, or do another go round, she was trained to execute either of these instuctions perfectly. It was great fun and we ended up with a fully trained exhibit-yourself-whippet, but of course we lost the courage to ever contemplate doing it in the ring.

However at one of the shows we attended later that summer a friend who is a well known all breed judge over here and a great sport, but who was a spectator that day, and who knew what we had been doing, encouraged us after the show was over to take the dog into the ring so he could see for himself just how effective our training had been. Jenny was flawless. When some of the professional handlers saw this whippet going through all the motions and showing herself they asked what was up and our judge friend depanned his reply -- "New rules next year," he told them, "double points on offer for any dog capable of exhibiting itself".

It took them a couple of minutes to realize that they legs were being very seriously pulled and their careers as professional handlers were not yet in jeopardy!

Lanny
 
My worst moment in the ring was at Bath Champ show, i had only been to about 5 at this time.

It was my turn all went well on the table, then i was to go up & down then the triangle. :eek:

No not me i went up & down then joined the end of the line, chating to my friend.

(w00t) my friend looked at me strange, as i turned to look back at the judge he was standing with his finger pointing at me to come back :eek: he was smileing tho.

I went very red in the face and went back to do my triangle. :- "
 
Great stories (w00t) (w00t) we once turned up at a show a week early :lol: :lol: another time at a champ show in Kelso i was moving Keano up and down it had been rainning and the grass was therefore wet and i slipped and fell right on my back side i was so embarrased and suprise suprise didnt get placed (w00t) (w00t) . I cant remember if it was last year or the year before that at crufts the gentleman standing behind me got a golden shower from his dog he took it in good humour though :lol: :lol:

Keep the stories coming though :thumbsup:
 
Denis Meakin once took a photo of me in a Minni skirt .I was showing Lowglen Micant Madonna and my lovely flowery knickers.

Even worse still at Leicester Ch. show a very well known whippet lady had forgot to put her knickers on,we talked about it for years. Ah those were the days.
 
There's a good knickers story that's been floating around the rings of Central and Nth Queensland for quite some time now. I really don't know how true it is but it's similar to the one already told about the elastic breaking. In this case however it was the judge (elderly woman) who lost 'em ... the steward, male, ran over and tried to help her pull them up! (w00t)

When I was a young handler, in the 70's, pitsuits were all the rage. You know, an all-in-one, overall pants suit, like the racing car drivers wear. Of course I had to have one, it was short sleeved and it was one of my favourite show suits, made out of a light chambray material. Well I must have been going through a bit of a growth spurt and it started to get a bit short in the legs. Not enough hem to let down but I insisted on wearing it to one more show. My dog (a Dalmatian then) took BIG which was a huge win and the BIS was judged inside the pavilion which is used for our state exhibition the Brisbane Royal, which has spectator seating on two sides of it. Everyone left at the show had come in to watch the specials. I was very proud to have my dog in that line-up with all those people watching. They had also been experimenting with a new flooring - pebbletex - which was like a cement & tiny pebble mix. On my go-round for BIS, one foot caught in the other leg of my pitsuit and down I went like a big sack of potatoes, grazed to blazes by the pebbletex and as red as a beetroot at my indignity in front of a crowd, when there was s'posed to be glory. My dog, Misty, just stood looking at me, (luckily I didn't bring him down with me) as if to say - well that was pretty spectacular mum!

Also forgot to put a dog in the trailer as a youngster. My dog, but I thought Mum had put her in, Mum thought Dad had put her in and Dad thought I had put her in. When I opened up the trailer door at the show, my first reaction (because the compartment was empty) was that she had fallen out. Went into a mad panic. Didn't actually realise that I had had to UNLOCK the door to open it in the first place. That's when it became apparent that I had forgotten to put her in there. :oops:
 
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