Best Puppy in Show – North Wales Gundog club
Posted December 1st, 2008 2 Comments
Despite being unfortunately unable to attend the All Winners show in Amsterdam yesterday, we enjoyed taking our two latest puppy’s Anton and Ayscha to their very first dog show here in the UK.
Anton was BOB under Breed Specialist Alex Webster (Layasway), he then went to win 4th in the Adult Group and ultimately ended up gaining Best Puppy in Show at just 6 months old. The BIS judge Glynn Griffiths commented that he was a “cracker” – we do have to agree with him.
Trish responds:
Posted: January 5th, 2009 at 4:48 am →
Congratulations.
How do you get to show him with a docked tail, is he registered in UK as
a working dog and still allowed to be shown as I dont figure out how they
work around this in the UK.
Peter McCullough responds:
Posted: January 5th, 2009 at 9:22 am →
Hi Trish
In the UK, provided the dog has a working dog exemption to be legally docked (as all our new puppies are) the law allows us to exhibit in some but not all shows in the UK. The English Law states if the dog is legally docked, it can still be exhibited where the public do not pay an entrance fee.
This means we cannot exhibit at Crufts and several of the large Championship Shows, but most of the Championship Shows and almost all Open Shows do not charge admission.
Individual countries interpret our rules as they see fit – In Scotland we can exhibit at any show (even though they do not allow docking at all for any breed), in Belgium we cannot compete at all in show or field events with a dog docked after a certain date, in most European countries we can exhibit as we have a working dog exemption in the UK.
Ironically our most recent litter had to be docked and tattooed in order for the dogs to be allowed into the German system as Drahthaars. Dogs cannot be registered as Drahthaars, compete at the Hegewald or any VDD organised event unless they are docked.
Its a bit of a mess all round ….