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Last night grandson Ashley and I took Martha to her (and our) first ringcraft class. Although I've been a spectator at quite a number of shows and have a good idea of what we should be aiming for, it's how to get there that we need help with.
I was quite disappointed at last night's class, not with Martha, but with the way the class was run. It was obvious that we and another woman (Mandy) were the newbies there. The guy running the class asked Martha's age and I explained that this was not only her first class but ours as well (Mandy did the same). We'd both hoped to get some tips on how to get the dogs to stand etc but didn't get any from him. If it hadn't been for another woman standing by me, with a young Golden Retriever, talking me through a few things, the whole evening would have been a total waste of time.
The class was for all levels of experience and I think would have been far better split into separate ones, giving maybe half an hour more concentrated advice for each level, than an hour and a half of us mainly standing around doing nothing.
What's other people's experience of ringcraft classes? Am I expecting too much?
I was quite disappointed at last night's class, not with Martha, but with the way the class was run. It was obvious that we and another woman (Mandy) were the newbies there. The guy running the class asked Martha's age and I explained that this was not only her first class but ours as well (Mandy did the same). We'd both hoped to get some tips on how to get the dogs to stand etc but didn't get any from him. If it hadn't been for another woman standing by me, with a young Golden Retriever, talking me through a few things, the whole evening would have been a total waste of time.
The class was for all levels of experience and I think would have been far better split into separate ones, giving maybe half an hour more concentrated advice for each level, than an hour and a half of us mainly standing around doing nothing.
What's other people's experience of ringcraft classes? Am I expecting too much?