Would it be possible to continue to go to entered shows after mating the bitch in the early weeks?
Should she be shown or just go along for the ride?
Thanks.

There are no rulings against it but personally, I wouldn't take a mated bitch to a show.  I'm very lucky to be able to walk my dogs where there are very few others and I wouldn't want to take the risk of her becoming infected with something.

Debs

Personally I wouldn't do it, but know of others who do, up until the bitch is starting to show. I wouldn't want to risk the unborn pups in any way.

I wouldn't risk it.   I breed so rarely that I shouldn't want to put a litter at risk for a rosette!

Margot

Some people do - I wouldn't worry about taking mine to the park or to normal training where she knows all the dogs and they are all vaccinated, but I wouldn't risk a show, which is annoying as there's one I want to go to about a month after she will hopefully have been mated!

I never take a mated bitch to a show. Apart from that, we try to live life as normal as possible. Although I must admit I try to avoid places where I know we'll meet lots of dogs we don't know. Prefer the woods or the beach on a cloudy, windy day ;-) to the park where you're bound to meet dogs.
This subject has been discussed on here before, there's no right or wrong, I think you should do what you think is right for you and your girl. 
Good luck with the upcoming litter,Karen

When we mate a Bitch, it never goes off our property
its not worth the risk, and as others have said, if people
have not got the space to keep the Bitch on one's own
place , find a place that is  not used much by other dogs.

I treat a bitch as normal after mating, keeping her away from other dogs until her season's finished and then back to the usual routine. Pregnancy isn't an illness and IMO she shouldn't be treated as if she's sick or contagious. I wouldn't go to a distant show because long journeys can be stressful, and if she's conceived she might not be her usual sparkly self so would be less likely to do well at shows closer to home.

well no rosette or even cc is worth losing a litter, and as each litter is very precious to me, then i want to minimise every risk I can!!  Interestingly i have just been reading about how heat stress can be a contributing factor ro abortion of a litter, and this time of year i wouldnt want to risk that in a traffic jam!!

Heat? traffic jam?  Our dogs would be kept(and have been kept) shut in the car with the AC running, pregnant or not!  Wouldn't do anything other then, but then I guess we are lucky enough to have a car with AC for the dogs :)

some of us dont have cars with airconditioning....just windows we wind up and down by hand!

Some of us don't have cars, LOL

just to add - could it not be stressful for a pregnant bitch to be examined in the ring.  I know some judges can be quite rough and a fearful bitch may re absorb.  Just a thought.

Would you be breeding from a fearful bitch in the first place? Sound steady temperament is essential.

For what it's worth, I've twice shown a pregnant bitch at Crufts. Both times it was so early on we didn't know for sure yet if she was pregnant or not (2 ½-3 weeks). I spoke to her breeder (THE most experienced person in the breed) and she said she wouldn't worry up to about 6 weeks and go ahead. We had no problems whatsoever and my dogs love shows. I don't think I'd do it for any other show, there's always another coming up and so no need, but on these two occasions it was Crufts and I only had the one dog to show.

According to the book of the bitch the most risky time in canine pregnancy for outside disease organisms affecting pregnancy is the middle trimester 3 1/2 to 5 weeks in whelp.  Until that tiem the potential pups are not yet implanted and reliant on a placenta.

I have shown a bitch just after the season had finished after she was mated and up to two weeks after mating, but never after that.

By five to 6 weeks the bitch except a maiden would be very obviously pregnant.  My pregnant bitches continue all their usual walks.

I don't know about being very obviously pregnant at 5 to 6 weeks if not a maiden. Mine don't show until just gone 6 weeks up to 7 and it's easier to tell in a maiden as the teats go through bigger changes the first time.

Jeangenie

It was hypothetical.  I just wondered if the extra stress was bad for them.  Some do have a change of temperament in whelp.  Of course no one of sound mind would breed a bitch that was nervous generally.

Just to add I dont take mine into the ringafter mating, simply my choice.