PRESENTATION

It is never acceptable to allow one’s dog to look like anything less than a winner when it is in the show ring. Learn to present your dog so well that the dog’s qualities stand out. A good dog can be made to look bad, and although a bad dog can never really be made to look good, a lesser-quality dog can be made to overshadow all of its flaws.  Faults can be made to all but disappear or blend into the overall picture of quality so well that they become inconsequential. It is up to the exhibitor to make that happen!

DEVELOPING AN 

EYE FOR A DOG

This concept is the single most important to the success of a dog breeder and judge. Is is the ability to recognize specimens that epitomize the best of a particular breed, including breed type, structure, movement, and soundness.  Individuals in various breeds who have not achieved a great measure of success, this is the one most easily identifiable factor.  Through the years this innate ability to assess breed type has become known as “having an eye.” It’s a sense of the ability to recognize a fine animal.  But yet, even beyond that, it’s a highly developed sense of proportion, symmetry, and balance.