Rebanne

Off to Mt Gambier to have some fun and hopefully get my girls Neuter title.

Sorry I should have clarified..........when entering, for instance aust bred dog...........can I request that my dog could be placed either at the front or right at the end??? no, not really.

Thanks for the detailed answer.

Tralee, you did show a dog who was carrying an injury that not even you could examine. Why would you expect a judge to succeed where you couldn't? That was very unfair to the dog and the judge.

wait and see how the pup recovers and what the vets have to say on Monday. These things happen.

Bit hard to have a discussion/debate with someone who can never answer a straight out question asked of him. I've learnt more from others in this thread then from Tralee. All I've learnt from Tralee is the dog show world is out to get him and his dogs.

how could they protect their flock if they were corralled with their humans? isn't night time when there is the most danger? Think I might do some more reading at work tonight. What work do your dogs do Tralee? Oh, come on! 'H' has told me all those stories. They are hardly 'historical' Ok if Zoiboy has it wrong, as in they are talking fairly recently, hence the not historical, what was your statement (that I have bolded so you may easily see it) referring too? Which comes back to my question how could they protect their flock if locked up with the people and not as Zoiboy described?

How? So how many of these dogs have you seen in the flesh Tralee, how many work and show? You can quote stuff and post pics from the internet but you have made some pretty big claims about the temperaments of the British and American dogs. First hand knowledge or internet knowledge? What work do your dogs do?

Congratulations to the winners and to the losers. Big acheivement by all to get there!

:D

Thanks Megz Go Huddy!

Thanks for the explantion, makes it much clearer

how could they protect their flock if they were corralled with their humans? isn't night time when there is the most danger? Think I might do some more reading at work tonight. What work do your dogs do Tralee?

just curious Tralee, have you been overseas and seen these Maremma's (USA, British, Italian), with your own eyes or are you relying on internet talk and interpertation?

Thanks Zoiboy, enjoyed your videos and understood what you were saying ;-)

The Maremma will allow itself to be handled, but it has to be on its terms. Then that is tolerating being handled then.

Agree Agree In agility there is no need for a dog to accept another person touching them, but in the show ring, like it or not, that is how they are judged. I have never seen a judge slap a dog a few times on the head. I never said they had to be friendly, what I expect is for them to tolerate it. I don't think there is anything wrong with it either

and, in the show ring, just how many extra minutes do we allow a maremma to make up it's mind whether to allow a judge to examine it or not? And should the same courtesy be extended to other dogs/breeds?

yes video is a great tool

me too.

Been thinking :D I find it harder to show in the breed, I am guilty of just mooching around cause I am the only one, but that is what the judge might remember so I have to give myself a kick up the ........... and remember to show the dog to his best! And I agree with Trisven13. It's been hard to change my handling style. My daughter justs seems to float around the ring with the dogs, but her confidence needs to be built re stacking and my dogs have had to learn what she says goes as well :D

I am blessed with a dog that enjoys the ring and is very focussed on me - that makes him a pleasure to show. :) What I ask for, he gives. the talk was more about my attitude to my dogs, I think I was being a bit soft :D So what is your attitude to winning? That's what I'd really like to focus on. How do you get into that space and stay there? well that pep talk did make me more positive, my whole bearing changed. I was stricter with the dog, presented him more confidently and I think it works. My mantra was, he might be a greyhound, but he's a good one, so give him the win! This is mainly at group level cause we are often the only greyhound at breed level :)

I am blessed with a dog that enjoys the ring and is very focussed on me - that makes him a pleasure to show. :) What I ask for, he gives. the talk was more about my attitude to my dogs, I think I was being a bit soft :D

one of the things that made a difference to me was being told, " I imagine your dog lives the life of Riley? all creature comforts supplied, loved and doted on? Then it's not too much to ask that he does what you want for a few minutes on the odd day out is it?" Smartened me right up. Though my daughter does most of the handling nowadays for me due to my back problems.

and they don't have to be chasing something to get into the zone. Give them enough room and they are running around seemingly flat out doing zoomies, then, bang! they are in a totally different headspace and and you just cross your fingers and hold your breath they do manage to avoid the tree. I actually prefer to let mine off together at the slipping track, a long boring narrow area, as there is less chance of them splitting up and then coming at each other head on. My greyhound chiro man has told me about greys racing at each other full on and colliding and both dying from a broken neck. One of my boys t-boned my girl and when she got up I thought her leg had been broken. Any wonder I spend a small fortune at the chiro's.