I have been wanting to enter a grooming competition for years, but now from what I am hearing it is all about who knows who and who spends the most money, is who wins. I would love to go compete in Hershey but will I have a chance if no one has heard of me or I don't bring my whole grooming salon along lavishly? Will I be judged on my grooming skills, or just passed over like a nobody? My friend told me that recently a young man we know did a perfect groom on a poodle and I have seen his grooming and I believe it he is awesome and he did not even get an award of merit. A lesser quality groom took the competition. She was in the middle of the same contest and packed up and left because she saw what was going on. I believe she knows what she is talking about because she has won many competitions.
Now secondly she told me that a show trim will not win a competition because the judges don't know how to judge a dog done in a show trim with the neck all hair sprayed up.That you have to scissor a sporting trim, with a scissored to knot to win. Is this true and I wonder why? I have only been to one competition and I didn't enter into it because it was $100 to enter and you only could win a prize of $100. She told me to wait to enter a contest that has special prizes for novice or never competited. Not that I am saying I am better than anyone or have a chance in Hadies at actually winning my first time out, but I was just wondering if anyone else thought that this was true about the politics. I mean in conformation dog shows it is highly political if you don't advertise your dog in show magazines, you almost never get a group placement. One writer actually got suspended for writing about a judge giving wins to dogs that didn't deserve them. And professional handlers will usually beat an owner handled dog just because the judge sees the handler every weekend and has no idea who the owner handler is. I wish a judge would judge the dog not the other end of the lead. Any ways Just Wondering what ya'll thought?
Now secondly she told me that a show trim will not win a competition because the judges don't know how to judge a dog done in a show trim with the neck all hair sprayed up.That you have to scissor a sporting trim, with a scissored to knot to win. Is this true and I wonder why? I have only been to one competition and I didn't enter into it because it was $100 to enter and you only could win a prize of $100. She told me to wait to enter a contest that has special prizes for novice or never competited. Not that I am saying I am better than anyone or have a chance in Hadies at actually winning my first time out, but I was just wondering if anyone else thought that this was true about the politics. I mean in conformation dog shows it is highly political if you don't advertise your dog in show magazines, you almost never get a group placement. One writer actually got suspended for writing about a judge giving wins to dogs that didn't deserve them. And professional handlers will usually beat an owner handled dog just because the judge sees the handler every weekend and has no idea who the owner handler is. I wish a judge would judge the dog not the other end of the lead. Any ways Just Wondering what ya'll thought?
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