Organising & Exhibiting at Shows

[Minaz Cassum]

Ok. I have two questions.

1. What is your take on the Secretary and other officials of the organising club exhibiting their dogs in their own shows - either handled by themselves and/or by a handler.

2. What is your take on the ring steward exhibiting his/her dog in the same ring that he/she is stewarding but with a handler.

Look forward to your relies.

Thanks/Regards,

[Elaine]

The first scenario has happened, the second I’ve never seen (frankly, I can't imagine anyone being that bold). I think both look tacky and I guarantee that you’d have people screaming their heads off if that happened here… and it does. Sometimes is subtle, like when one of the owners takes their name off of the dog right before the show, or does not accurately enter the dog at the show with his/her name, i.e., sometimes people just omit their names so that they don’t appear in the show catalogue on the day. If my memory is correct, I sort of remember someone calling us about Bob Vandiver not having his name listed on a bitch he’d bred and co-owned before and after the Greenville shows. There was a thread about it… some people thought it looked bad, and it did… but I don’t think anyone called AKC… (they must not feel threatened by Bob and what he’s breeding :cool::rolleyes::D).

Far as I know, it is up to the individual clubs as to what their rules say and whether they allow their club members to show. Some clubs allow some members to show, but not the Show Committee. Most do not allow members to show at their own show, but I can remember a woman going BIS at her own show (Whidbey Island Kennel Club), with a Lhasa Apso. That was about 30 years ago. I think the club said something like, “Hey, that doesn’t look so good, please don’t do that again.” Our Moore County Kennel Club does not allow our club members to show at our show. The subject came up again recently, one of our club members showed at our most recent show (though they were not on the show committee, but the husband was ring stewarding). A few people complained, but I don’t think anyone got too spooled up about it. It was the discussion at lunch but that is as far as it got (far as I know). Don’t think it got any further than someone pulling them aside and saying, “Hey, we’ve got a rule that you can’t show at our show, so please don’t.” Now, if they had gone BIS there may have been more concern.

[RaindanceIGs]

Ok. I have two questions.

1. What is your take on the Secretary and other officials of the organising club exhibiting their dogs in their own shows - either handled by themselves and/or by a handler.

Well I guess it depends on the involvement of the person. In order for shows to exist, it needs helpers. If every single helper was not allowed to show, I don't think there'd be any dog shows for people to enter. But, I agree that the Show Chair and anyone involved in selecting the judges should not be allowed to show - at all.



2. What is your take on the ring steward exhibiting his/her dog in the same ring that he/she is stewarding but with a handler.



Over the summer I saw an individual ring steward all day at a certain ring under a certain judge, and later that day he himself exhibited his own dog (I think in Bred-By Exhibitor) in that same ring under that same judge. VERY bad sportsmanship if you ask me. If it was a different ring and different judge I could maybe deal with it.