LOL, I should have expected this! When I wanted to learn about dog shows and asked my mom if I could use her pup, I started claling aorund for handling classes. Well they were not overly receptive. So, we showed up. I was so proud of him, he behaved quite well, some of the other pups were bouncing off the walls. But we were somewhat clueless about what to do, even though we read everything we could get our hands on (it is so different to read and then do it).
They were very rude to us (the instructors and some of the students, there were some students that were lovely to us) and kept critisizing (which I wanted!!) but confusing. When ever i asked a question they said it was an advanced question and SOMEDAY I would know the answer...argh!!!
Well when I took him to get groomer the groomer (who also is a handler) showed us what to do cause the instructor taught us wrong!! (the stack was off, she told us to walk SLOWLY, never use bait never look at your dog...)
At the show I though th instructor who was also showing would speak with us, NOPE!! She acted like she never saw us before.
I watched so carefully and talked to everyone and learned so much in one day.
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