Honing your handling skills

 

Even the most advanced handler needs a place to train.  Offering a training facility, classes with other dogs and a "judge" to go over your dog and get them ready for the ring, retrain a dog that has developed "issues" and move on from the classes, to the breed and to the groups.​

 

 

Taking class and training your dog is an ongoing process.  From the fundamentals of standing for exam and gaiting around the ring, learning to reach and to stop square is something that each new dog will need to learn.  Of course every handler can use a little work out and focus.  It is a rare handler that can stay perfectly calm and stay 100% focused while in the ring and I've witnessed many a handler in the groups at even Westminster that are focused on their dog rather than the judge and have missed the "Point".  Nothing worse than looking unprepared on global television.  

 

Drop in work as a refresher for a trained dog or teamwork building for that new special, this class is dedicated to you.  Work focuses on the free stack, the pattern, and finesse of the performance.  If you can't get your dog to show, the judge is not going to go out of their way to imagine what it could look like when it is free stacking out in your back yard.  This is your opportunity, go for the breed, get in that group ring with confidence and get that dog to shine!
 

Dress for success.  Not only should your dog be groomed to perfection, you too should look the part.