We hadn't intended to show Finlay when we bought him. Deb tried it with Nemo when we had him, although he showed pretty well his colour (tri-colour black, tan and white) was not favoured at the time. So after a short while we gave it up.
We went along to a show the other week in Havant and we wondered again whether we should try Finlay and see how he goes. He is a gorgeous dog, but that doesn't necessarily win dog shows! So we had a chat about it and decided to take him to ringcraft classes and see what he makes of them. We went to our first one in Upham last night and Finlay was actually very good....not so much with the ringcraft but the whole experience.
He was a lot more civilised that we would have expected. Of course he wanted to say hello to all the dogs, but he did so in a little less full on way than usual. It was almost as if he understood that he was there to learn rather than to play. He fell in love with 'Ebony' the Chow Chow.
His first experience at being looked at on the table went ok, he seemed to really like the 'judge' and therefore she had to be wagged at and kissed with gusto. Perhaps that is the way to a judges heart? But as it was his first time it was more of an experience than anything. He then walked around the circuit not too badly, very fixed on the treat that Deb had with her.
Some of the people there were pretty serious, it seemed to be Red Setter and English Bulldog night, as there were about 6 of each there. In fact there were so many dogs there, in excess of 20, we only got one go in the time we had. We will go again.
This is Finlays time on the table - photo in focus except for the tail, which didn't stop wagging the whole evening:
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