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Meet a variety of people in our Dog Show Community!
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Is Your Dog Really Anxious for Grooming— Or Have We Stopped Teaching DogsHow to Handle Things?
By Karen Osper The Posh Paw/The Perfect Paw One of the most common things professional groomers hear today is:“My dog has anxiety.”“He hates grooming.”“She just can’t handle being groomed.”And while true anxiety absolutely exists in some dogs, there’s also a growing misconceptionhappening within pet ownership and the grooming industry:Many dogs are not actually anxious for…
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Focus on What You Can Control
by Andy Vance for American Dog Fancier My coworker Jon carries a coffee mug that says, “Nobody cares. Work harder.” That call tostop making excuses reminds me of some advice I offer to my fellow conformationcompetitors… especially my fellow owner-handlers.Dog shows are about evaluating breeding stock, period, end of story. With that in mind, whenI…
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People Don’t Join Clubs – They Join People
by Andy Vance for American Dog Fancier A few years after our family got heavily involved in conformation shows, we realized that weneeded to join our local specialty and all-breed clubs… and more importantly, we needed tovolunteer and contribute to what my mentor calls, “The Good of the Order.”No members, no clubs. No clubs, no…
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The be nice challenge!
By Kathy Musto I was thinking to myself, how hard is it to be nice? What are some nice things we can do for each other? Well, I think it can be simple! So here is my challenge to all of us at dog shows… Find someone you don’t know that is in the group…