what does everyone prefer ?

would you like both or one or the other ?

would you like them given at just champ shows or open shows?

or do you think rossettes are just dust collectors,

what do you do with your prize cards when you get them ?
carolann

To be perfectly honest with you I'd rather have money! LOL 

Any special rosettes (top dog/brood/sire, etc plus Crufts BOB and any Group wins or placings) go into plastic wallets in the loft along with any crystal stuff.  Everything else goes in carrier bags in the spare room until I find someone who wants to recycle them for charity shows, etc.  The cards just go out for the recycle bin.

Debs

My husband just read my earlier reply over my shoulder and said it came across as snobby and ungrateful   It really wasn't meant like that so I hope no-one thinks I'm that sort of person but I just write what I think and was simply answering the question :d

Debs

*Whinces and sits in the corner*

Debs i didn't think you came across as ungrateful etc at all :-)

I remember in one show a lady won our class, they gave her a rosette and she handed it back and said she didn't want it as she had enough, only in my dreams :D

When we first started showing i didn't realise either that you could buy rosettes to go with the stingy cards you get at some champ shows, when someone told me i was gutted, since then we've not won anything to buy even though i vowed i would always :D

Hi there :-)

Well i suppose i shouldn't be choosy if my dog lucky enough to be placed, but i love rosettes :D 
If there's rosettes being given then i don't mind not having a card at all either.
Both shows please as well :-)
I have to admit that i have every card, rosette etc that we've won all stored away with the show programme etc, i loe looking back at them.  Saying that we only show one dog at the mo and have only been showing for about 18 months or so.

OOh Rosettes everytime for me! At ch shows, when you just get a card, I go and buy a rosette to go with it! :D I think they look lovely on display - and for non-dog showing friends and family - they always want to see a rosette (just bringing a card home usually means "is that all you get?" comments!! :rolleyes:

TBH the money you pay for ch show entries you jolly well should get both! :D :D

ROFL!! Surannon, tell him to mind his own Beeswax!! ;)
I think your very sensible, like the recyling for charity shows (it didnt read snobby at all)

I'm happy with just a card.

Normally at open shows we will offer the rosettes back to the show for use the following year.  we always keep BOB's RBOBs, BP, groups etc and firsts with the younger dogs but the rest tbh just go in a box or if they come home with us go to the local play group.

Rossettes are so expensive so the more you can recycle the better :D (from a show committee POV!)

I like both, but I love to get a rosette.

I have every single one I have ever won spanning 33 years. The oldest ones are dropping to bits now, the glue is giving way, and each one is a memory (of course I don't remember every one, but alot I do). They have been won by an assortment of dogs over the years, and I enjoy looking back.

Dawn R.

I love both, my cards are put in a photo album and then the critique is put with it later on.  Rosettes at the moment I just chucked in a box, I do hope to display them somehow eventually, but I cant work out a way that they wont look tacky

Saw you dad today with your pup Rox, looked like he got best puppy :)

edit to say - I have in my loft all of the rosettes won by my parents dogs over the years (not sure how I ended up with them) and also all my junior handling rosettes.

Yup BP with pup (horror she is!)

also got a 3rd with old bitch and middle bitch got last! supposedly beaten by a lame dog by hey ho!

I didnt see the rest, I was put off watching because of some woman choking her dog, poor thing was nearly throwing up in the ring and she still had it strung up :(  Your pup was nice though, definitely nicer than the other pup she was in with.

Thanks.  Last I saw of her affew weeks ago she was looking good, still needs alot of maturing but she has plenty of time to come yet! 

I do hate it when people choke there dogs, I've seen it happen so much in the junior handling :(  There's no need for it, makes me so upset espcially a gundog shows where all breeds should be shhown on a loose lead, although I know cockers are normally high strung it should never be tight.

I show on a tightish lead but only to keep him straight, this poor dog was really choking

I have my Yankee's collar right up under his chin, if I do that I actually don't need any tension on it as he knows he can't get his head down to sniff. It's very noticeable though in Cavaliers, even since I started showing 4 years ago, that more and more people are stringing up this breed, which there is no need to do if they have any training at all!

thats what I do, pull it up under his chin for control, but I dont need to pull it tight.  This was in red and whites so not even a small dog

I like both, but especially rosettes :) All rosettes go on the wall to look pretty (even 3rd of 3 etc :D). The prize cards where they've not been last in the class (if you see what I mean) go up on the wall, the rest get filed. My dogs don't win much, but we enjoy what we get :)

I like both - the cards go in my folder of write ups with the class and number in it written on the back, and the rosettes go on the wall. I know what Debs means though - I haven't got as many rosettes as you must, but I have to keep clearing off the lower places from the display to make room for Firsts and BOBs. I feel like an awful snob if I give them back, but it's just a waste of money to take home a 3rd or below when there just isn't room! I usually sneak up to the secretary and say 'don't take this the wrong way but can I give this back' rather than handing it back to the steward though like some people have!!

I 'recycle' my rosettes - the kids at school turn them into Christmas decorations - I susbstitute a photo of them as the middle part of the rosette and let them stick sequins/glitter etc on the ribbon - they then can hang them on the Christmas tree. When it's sports day I change the middle part again for the name of their class and hand them out as prizes.  The kids LOVE them :D

Yvonne

Debs i did not think your reply was at all snobby,
myself i prefer a rossette, i recycle my rossettes to the local school for sports day the look on the kids faces when they get a rossette makes my day,

i also do agility and we get rossettes places sometimes up to 20th and then you are entitled to your clear round rossette as well, i know there are sometimes more than 400 dogs entered in a class so maybe it is worthwhile for agility to give out rossettes in the classes

I know it is expensive for rossettes but surely a first place one will not break the bank for clubs

and i do think Champ shows should give them out as well not just the prize cards

but that is just my opinion
carolann

Just out of interest if you are palced and take your card on the day, can you purchase rossettes from the rosette company say 6 months later?

Hubby is now moaning as he didn't realise you could buy them at the shows and we only have cards :D

Thanks

You dont have to even take your card,just go along to Dalsetter at the shows and they will make you the rosettes you need
there and then if they have the ribbons and middle,(which they do hold a lot of for past shows)

Sounds like anyone could do that even if they didn't get placed

They can Dill,no-one asks,you just pay your money and thats it,though it would be a saddo who
had to buy a rosette to pretend,they would be fooling themselves.

Not thinking of saddos ;)

Thinking of B-I-L who took me with him to buy a pup (before I got involved in showing) The home seemed right, loads of rosettes on the walls, papers given with pups etc. but pup had bad entropion, needed an op at 9 months, terribly overcoated for the breed too and no advice given re neutering (ie don't!)  Tried searching for the breeders (who claimed to be successful showers) a year later when I got my pup and got involved in showing but never could find any mention of the affix :rolleyes: and haven't heard of it since :rolleyes:  They had 2 stud dogs (supposedly champions) too, so I would have thought some mention would have shown up somewhere ?   Always wondered if the rosettes were just bought ;)

I know what you mean Dill, I've often thought that since I started going to Champ shows! I really think you should have to show the card to stop the temptation for people to just buy a load of firsts and seconds and pretend to buyers that they are successful!

I didnt see any prizes or rosettes when I bought my boys (apart from the CC's on the wall at Alfs breeders) buyers should look more deeply into it other than just going by prizes on the wall.  the internet is always a great place to start.

In one of my breeds the breed club gives out the most beautiful prize cards made of very thick 4mm card in a siluette of the breed with embossed gold writing, they look amazing if you are lucky enough to have a few red ones lining the dado rails.  Wish more clubs would do this.  Prefer these to rosettes.  But always keep the big winning rosettes, though my fav ones were eaten by one of my puppies who managed to jump four feet and get it down to be destroyed... LOL