Show Management |
Competitors |
Please... |
Please... |
Print the directions large enough for a single driver, without a navigator, to read without
difficulty, and put up large signs on the roads for the final stages. |
Check the route before setting out, and don’t moan if you go wrong and arrive later than
expected. |
Don’t park us so close that we can’t open car and van doors or tailgates. |
Don’t arrive so early that the club’s car parkers have not yet gone on duty. Or be prepared
to move without complaint if needed once they do arrive. |
Mark the camping plots clearly, and remember that we don’t all have caravans with side
openings – make some allowance for variations such as campers and tents. |
Camp sensibly, leaving roadways clear and, if possible, walkways through the site so that
others can get to their plots easily and safely. |
Position the exercise area near the camping and car parking. Few dogs are going to wait
until they get to the far side of the site to ‘evacuate’. |
Use the exercise area properly and considerately– remember that others have a right to its
use as well as your own dogs. |
Don’t nag all of us all the time about ‘picking up’ – find the offenders and nag them
instead. Mow the grass in the exercise area, or accept that it is not always possible to
see/pick up from long grass. |
Make every effort to pick up after all your dogs; if necessary, only allow one off the lead
at a time until they have ‘been’. If it’s dark, take a torch and find ‘it’ before someone
else steps in ‘it’. |
Don’t threaten actions for ‘offences’ unless you intend to carry them out.
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Don’t take actions that might give offence to others. |
Give people enough time to walk courses – some may have 5 or so courses to walk first
thing. Later, some people will be queuing or working a dog when a course is being walked.
Make clear announcements about courses being walked, and be time-specific about when the
class will start. |
Listen for announcements, and walk the courses as promptly as possible. Don’t complain if
you miss an announcement – it is your responsibility to be available. Send a message if
there is a problem getting to a course walking – most rings have walky-talkies these days. |
Don’t threaten to close classes because people haven’t turned up – those still waiting to
run are not the ones who have caused the problem. Instead, give a time limit for those who
should have run to arrive (or send a message) and then enforce it. |
Be
available to run when it is your turn. Don’t try to ‘buck the system’ because: the grass
will be drier later/the sun will not be in the dog’s eyes on the start/the judge will be
tired and less likely to mark the contacts etc. Don’t complain if you are late and not
allowed to run. |
Give people notice about when the presentations will be – and time to get from the far side
of the site to the presentation area. Don’t nag over the tannoy that no-one has turned up –
ask yourself why that might be! (Wirral are the experts at getting presentations right –
talk to them) |
Go
to the presentations whenever possible. It is a courtesy to the judge who has put a lot of
time and effort into courses and judging, and it is the best way to support your own club
members and build a team. Learn to celebrate success! |
Provide a feedback system so that constructive comments are welcomed and the show can
improve still more. |
Always let the show management know how much you have enjoyed the show – it compensates for
some of the frustration running shows can bring. And make comments constructive and
positive wherever possible. |
Competitors should
attend prize givings or at the very least organise for someone to collect their rosette.
Louise Challis |
I wish that shows would
round up their rosettes. I realise that they go to 10% of the class, but it would be nice
if the rosettes went to 10th place, at least, in all classes. Louise Challis |
Clubs should do the prizegiving after the class,
whilst the next class is being walked, thus preventing a build up of prizegiving and a
lengthy wait whilst several classes are presented before yours. If this was adopted as
standard practice everyone would automatically know when to attend a prizegiving and few
people would miss it or go home because its late/because they have a long way to travel/
because they are fed up of waiting etc.
(How many judges would prefer this?) Sharon Brewste/font> |