This is further knowledge that i am trying to gain, as the title says; Is It Easyer To Gain Your Championship Nowadays? Me myself only recently have been considering showing/breeding. I'm only 16, but have been facinated with staffords since i was 12, when i purchased my first Staff as a pet only. I have recently been contacting breeders, reading books, and using the internet to improve my knowledge in the hopes to breed my own Staffords. It has just occured to me, and i have spoken to many breeders, with mixed results as to whether it is easyer to gain your championship nowadays for your show dog.

The SBT has more than 10 breed clubs i believe, as like some of the other 'popular breeds,' these clubs hold shows on average 3 a year, which means maybe 1 championship show, plus the terrier shows AND the all breed shows, which all offer CC's. I heard this year around 150+ dogs (both male and female) have recieved their championship, which is supposedly a huge improvement on the previous year.

So with all these CC's available, do you think it is easyer to gain your championship nowadays? Has the standard been lowered in favour of attracting more people to the dog show world?

I heard this year around 150+ dogs (both male and female) have recieved their championship, which is supposedly a huge improvement on the previous year.


I'd seriously doubt that. Those figures do not add up. In Golden Retrievers, which always have the highest entry at shows, always have tickets available, you would expect to see 10-15 new Champions a year or so. In Malinois, where we only have 8 shows a year with CCs,  in 2007 4 dogs became Champions. In Papillons, 2007 saw 8 Champions. So there you have a very strong breed numerically, a very weak one, and one in between. If you had 150 dogs a YEAR in a breed made up, then those dogs would each have have had to attend at least 3 shows (Unless they all had tickets form previous ears, only needing one more.). If we halve it allowing for sexes (i.e. 2 dogs per show can get a ticket), then 75 x 3= 225. There is no WAY there are 225 shows a year with CCs for Staffies or indeed any breed. :)

> The SBT has more than 10 breed clubs i believe,

Surely all these clubs do not give tickets every year, how many sets do the breed have in all?

Even it the breed has 150 sets of tickets a year, which I doubt, that would in no way equal 150 champions because as in most breeds there will be a few animal during the years to which most of the top awards will go. At the end of each year the KC publish those who have been awarded CCs in each breed, I have never checked the Staffie but am very sceptical that it would be 150 sets of CCs but it may be.

I heard this year around 150+ dogs (both male and female) have recieved their championship, which is supposedly a huge improvement on the previous year.

In which part of this did i mention only one breed? :S

>In which part of this did i mention only one breed?

In this part of your original post, in your paragraph about the SBT:

>"The SBT has more than 10 breed clubs i believe, as like some of the other 'popular breeds,' these clubs hold shows on average 3 a year, which means maybe 1 championship show, plus the terrier shows AND the all breed shows, which all offer CC's. I heard this year around 150+ dogs (both male and female) have recieved their championship,"

As it's all in the same paragraph it's obviously all about the same breed (SBT), otherwise it would be in separate paragraphs.

I thought he was talking about the SBT, as it was all following on and not mentioning the fact that he was talking about anything different then from the SBT.

Dogs recieving their championships isn't becoming easier, to get it is exactly the same as it has always been, I do feel though that not as many people are going to shows and many a people will make a dog up then take it out the ring to bring though another dog, more and more show people it seems are retiring dogs once they have achieved their title to be able to concentrate on younger stock, but then you can't show for example your 4 dogs all in one or two classes!