A Bitch which did well at crufts is being imported to campaign here so i believe. I have no issues with imports at all if they are correct thats not what i am questioning. This Bitch has 25 titles, and now trying for 26. For me, this is too much why not let her rest and relax now? Let her be a dog and now travel here there and everywhere. I have missed shows in the past as i have thought i had done too many within a short period and thought they deserved a trip to the beach instead. What are your views?

Depends if she enjoys it. My dogs, while not competing at that sort of level, do one or two shows at least each month, and still have plenty of time to run in the park, roll in mud, climb hills with my husband and just be dogs. :-)

For a bitch to gain 25 titles, she must enjoy it.. With the best will in the world, a dog who does not enjoy showing, would never gain that recognition..

I have girls here who do OK in the ring.. but dont enjoy it.. so they no longer show..

I have one girl who has 46 wins (in an 18month period) .. I stopped showing her for 3 years, because I felt she had done enough..and she had maternity duties,  but brought her back out as a 6 year old last month.. and she showed her little socks off.. she loves the showring.. but during the week she is a normal dog, and a family pet..

there are only a handfull of Ch shows per year.. for the other 350odd days of the year, this bitch will no doubt get her trips to the beach etc.. I can't see your problem with it

25 titles? Wow, that's incredible! I know dogs with 25+ CCs, but not 25 titles! She must have travelled the world to amass that number of championships. I'm very impressed.

the only thing i have a problem with is the fact its gained the titles in so many different countries. She is being handed to someone here to campaign so more than anything i have an issue with her travelling to different countries and being handed to different people to campaign. Now im not sure if SHE WAS given to anyone else in all the other countries but it is no doubt stressful travelling and to not be with their owner must be more so. But yes i can see your point it if SHE enjoys it its ok.

glad you pointed that out JG.. I read it as 25CC's ..

For a dog to gain a title of country, they are usually campaigned for the year.. sometimes 2.. and even she is gaining her points at consecutive shows, and moving on immediately.. I cannot see her gaining more than 3 titles per year..and since she cannot get a title until a minimum of a year old.. she must be about 9/10years old?

Sorry, me not writing prosperly. (My old girl collapsed in the heat today so head not all there) 12 titles that a know of (more i think but cant remember properly) the rest cc.

> For a dog to gain a title of country, they are usually campaigned for the year.. sometimes 2.. and even she is gaining her points at consecutive shows, and moving on immediately.. I cannot see her gaining more than 3 titles per year..and since she cannot get a title until a minimum of a year old.. she must be about 9/10years old?

Not necessarily. For example,dogs that were already champions and won a CACIB at the European show in Dublin last month, automatically became an Irish Champion, and I believe that the same thing happened last year at the World Show in Stockholm. I think also that there are some countries where if you win at one of their major shows you get that countries championship. So, once she was a champion, she could have got quite a lot of other titles easily.

Also, it depends where she lives. Lots of dogs travel to shows in all the Scandinavian countries, as well as to Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, and even Russia. Similarly, it's easy, if you live in the right place to travel to shows in Holland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Germany. It's only like us going to shows in Wales, Scotland and England and maybe over to Belfast as well.

Also, the entries are often very small, so it's quite easy with a good dog to get a title at just a few shows.

Well my Ripley, who is 9, recently had surgery both to be spayed and to have a lump removed. A week later we were off to a show, and my step son was at home looking after Ripley. As soon as she saw the show bag she got excited, and when we left without her, she howled. It was heartbreaking! She's been everywhere with us, lots of different countries, lots and lots of shows (and other trips) for over 8 years, and she still adores it -the worst possible scenario for her is to NOT be allowed to go. The traveling is no problem -she is in the car so she is with us, and that's what matters. She's perfectly comfortable. She will happily sleep in anybody's house, anywhere, all that counts is that she's close to us, especially me. The vet could not believe her age, asked if I was sure she was nine as she's so bouncy. So yes, it does depend on the dog -for some it would be far WORSE to be retired. I'm dreading Blackpool at the weekend because I will be leaving Ripley behind again. She's healed, she has her permission to show following surgery from the KC, but it's only 3 weeks since the surgery and I think it's too soon, safest to have a longer rest.

My semi retired 9 1/2 year old champion bitch hates not to go to a show.

As her outings are less frequent now she is an absolute buffoon in the ring acting like a very bouncy OTT 9 month old.  she was always lively in the ring, but worse than ever now.

> she was always lively in the ring, but worse than ever now.

At 9 1/2?  Wonderful!  :-)

Part of her report by Robin Searle at our club champ show in april where she won the RCC was 'A flying machine'

Some countries they can gain their title in a weekend. The UK as we all know being the hardest would " generally" take the longest.

My freind made her dog up in Canada in one weekend with only a handful of dogs there. I think it is 7 points of something they need.  I know all countries are not that easy but a lot are.

My girls father has about 15 titles or so and he is definately a pet and family member and not "dragged around the world" unhappy.
The owner has shown him in every single show he has gone to so no strange people either.
He actually much enjoys travelling with them as this means he is the only dog around(or one of few) and gets all their attention :) not having to complete with the other 4 they have at home.

In FCI many countries have a agreement in place where if the dog is a champion of its own country and gets a CC in a different country it becomes a champion of the country it is visiting too (at least this is how it used to be) so becoming a multi champion could mean only one trip to said countries...

Saying this, to some people dog are a business so some dogs will just get flown over everywhere and not get to live the normal doggy life :(

> it is no doubt stressful travelling

A lot of dogs love travelling, in fact all but one of the dogs I've owned have loved travelling. The whole adventure of travelling for hours, stopping in different places, staying in hotels - they've enjoyed every minute :-) Personally I wouldn't give a dog to someone else to campaign because I'd rather enjoy it with them, but it's no different from rehoming an older dog which is often done. Dogs with good temperaments are generally very accepting :-)

Like people have said, in many countries you can make a dog up in a weekend quite easily if it's good enough, or go to a world show or euro show and get the title by winning BOB in the country it's been held in.

Also it depends what the titles are.  In america you can get club titles aswell as AKC titles, I don't know if this is the same in ther parts of the world. 

Personally I wouldn't do it, but maybe thats because I'm in the UK and you have to travel the sea to get to any other country but if your in the middle of europe you can travel by car quite easily to anywhere :)