Winner's Dog
Now those of you that have no reference point to the Dog Show World will have no idea what that heading means... But for those that do, you will jump for joy when I share that Elvis went Winners Dog, and not at any ol' dog show either, but at a Specialty! This is a BIG DEAL! In one of my previous posts I was lamenting the challenges of showing a dog in "the Breed ring" - that it is terribly political and so frustrating to participate when one is not an avid competitor. It takes a lot of entries ($$) and a lot of traveling around to lots of dog shows ($$) to get the judges to realize that you want to be taken seriously. Never mind the dog - so often it doesn't seem to matter what the poor dog looks like at all! What seems to matter more and more is who is at the other end of the leash - are you SERIOUS about this and have you shown your dog to me enough times that you have 'earned' the privilege of being granted a point? Well that has always been my