You need to bring your dog up to suit you and your family, as long it does not mean you are cruel and you are providing what is generally accepted as good care.

Breeders give high quality puppies to friends or people inside the industry on the condition that puppy will be or won’t be shown at dog shows.

I felt I can be pretty sure that I could trust those people who in the end got one of my pups. Every pup went home with instructions on what I feed and how I train my pups.

The worst thing to do would be to groom in a way that disqualifies the dog from competition, the second-worst would be to set up the dog for failure by making them look bad.

Dogs which can win a ribbon in their breed at a show are not common. Dogs which can win best of (their) breed at an AKC sanctioned show are far rarer still.

You have a responsibility to the world to not over-breed. Or breed in such a way, as to cause health issues to the mother or offspring

Vilnius Lithuania 🇱🇹 CACIB DogShow March 2019 , around the show

Chances are very good this pup’s outstanding excellence will be apparent early in the dog’s life - often as soon as the dog is born.

Dogs which can win best of breed at the most prestigious shows are literally one in tens of thousands of that breed, if not one in a million.

Of course, with all the good breeding, they would “roll over” if they found out their prestigious pup, my dog, worked for a living (as an assistance dog).

A dog is legally defined as property. You usually sign a legal binding contract with a breeder/rescue/city/county regarding altering, acceptable housing conditions, treatment, sometimes food/medication, breeding rights, vaccines, training, whatever you both agree upon in writing.

A unprecedented unique system exists today where 20 million dog breeders a year give kennel clubs located all around the globe data and that kennel club charges the dog breeder for simply keeping that data.

There are dog show handlers who are not professionals and even specific classes that bar professional handlers or have other requirements

Handling show dogs is not an easy or a high-paying profession, but it can be quite rewarding and let an individual work with a great number of exceptional dogs.

If you get top 3 in “best companion dog” it won’t hold the weight that top 3 in “best of breed” will

First Time new puppy buyers almost always get carried away with the event & normally generally think nothing for paying 50-100$ extra for a piece of paper with a photocopy of 5 Generation pedigree showing parents, grandparents and great grandparents.

I would go out on a limb and suggest that being a dog handler costs (travel, dog food, insurance etc) more than it brings in.

Show Grooming shouldn’t trim or strip so that the dog looks like it lacks hair where it should have it.