Time To Get Serious About Seminars

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210 – March, 2025

By Sandy Weaver

Are you an owner-handler? When was the last time you attended a seminar so you could expand your knowledge and ability to breed better dogs, condition and groom them properly, and win more?

There are so many people who believe that once they’ve graduated from high school or college, they don’t need to focus on formal learning anymore. Sure, maybe they read an article or two, watch a couple of YouTube videos, and maybe go to their kennel club meeting when the program is focused on conformation. Handling classes? Who needs those? This stuff is easy. You run around the ring, stack your dog, run back and forth and maybe around the ring again. When they decide to do a breeding, instead of finding the very best match they can for their bitch based on genotype and phenotype, they breed to the local male who does some winning, or to their friend’s dog because there won’t be a stud fee.

Guess what? Those tend to be the people who win the least and complain the most about politics in the show ring. They believe that they’d win every weekend except that the professional handlers have buddied up to the judges.

Yeah. No.

If you watch those people at their place of employment, you might see a different attitude. You might watch them do what they do and see a higher level of competence and confidence, because they understand that in order to be paid, they have to put in the work necessary to earn the money.

You know where this is going, right?

In order to win in the conformation ring, you have to put in the work necessary to earn the win.

There are two major differences between owner-handlers and professional handlers.

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210 – March, 2025

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