[yorkietalkjilly]

I don't show at all but can imagine how I might feel under the circumstances you described but just ignore my comments if you prefer as I don't qualify. I imagine the dog handler was working, perhaps professionally on the job if she were hired to show another person's dog, very tense, hurried and maybe she felt bad or something and was "in the own zone" with her dog but to be frankly rude at a bench show is wrong, as is rudeness almost all the rest of the time - unless someone says something very ugly to you first. I thought a bench show was to encourage people coming up and asking questions!!! Still, I probably wouldn't have approached a handler actively prepping their dog before a show. I'd maybe wait until they were done and maybe just standing around and ask if I could get a lesson later or something.