First Dog Show

[Janet]

I went to my first dog show this weekend. It was a UKC show because our dog is an Estrela Mountain Dog (a Portuguese livestock guarding breed), which is a UKC recognized breed but not AKC recognized.

It was run over 3 days with 2 shows (different judges) running concurrently each day. She was the only Estrela Mountain Dog there (we did a lot of explaining what she was), so she got a meaningless “Best of Breed” in each show. But in two of the shows she got 4th in “Group” (out of 7 or 8 breeds in the “Guardian” group). She behaved and we we learned a lot.

In dogs, 4th is a YELLOW ribbon (3rd is green).

[DMK]

Top three needs to be primary colors, just sayin’… I mean they are PRIMARY lol

[S1969]

Congratulations!!

I think ribbons for UKC must be different than AKC, where group ribbons are blue for 1st, red - 2nd, yellow - 3rd and then white - 4th. Non-regular classes are all over the place though…pastel colors…very confusing!

I’ve never shown in UKC; there really aren’t any UKC shows near me and not really worth traveling to since there are so many AKC shows in my area. There are some different rules; I think it’s possible for a UKC dog to finish a championship even if they never show against another dog in their own breed. That can’t happen in AKC although I think there are some thoughts about changing that or making it a little easier for rare breeds to finish.

[Janet]

Some of the Best of Breed ribbons were light blue, others orange and brown.

[chestnutmarebeware]

Congratulations! We need to see pictures!

[Jealoushe]

Congrats! Fourth is yellow in Canada too, but white is 3rd here.

[Janet]

@chestnutmarebeware

Congratulations! We need to see pictures!

There are pictures from the show, but they are on my husband’s smartphone, or on the camera, neither of which I can access from my laptop. But here is a picture of Lady earlier this year.

[Janet]

We saw breeds I have never even heard of: Carolina Dog, American Leopard Hound, Multi-Colored Poodle, Small Munsterlnder. And breeds I knew about but had not seen in person: American Pit Bull Terrier, Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever.

A wide variety of people. The woman in a Mennonite-style dress (she had a jack Russell, and a bloodhound, and was running a booth with dog-related art and brick-a-brack), with a bonnet; the young man with a mullet/pony tail; the woman with green hair; the man with his arms covered in tattoos.

On Friday afternoon (after we had left for the day) a tree fell down just outside, and took out the power poke, and the power. It also blocked the road, and we had to take a long detour on Saturday morning. Luckily the building had skylights, because we didn’t get power back until late Saturday.

[candyappy]

What a pretty dog!