Juniors
At the World Dog Show in Budapest, Hungary, one of the most prestigious competitions on offer for junior handlers takes place. In the UK, the winner of the YKC ‘handler of the year’ gets the chance to compete in the competition.
WHAT MAKES a good handler better? It is often too easy to rest on your laurels, particularly if you are at the ‘top of your class’ so to speak and win more classes than you lose. You haven’t the push perhaps to get to the next level until you...
Twenty-one-year-old Amelia Siddle, from Devon, is proof that younger handlers can achieve great things both in the UK and now on the continent.
I’VE BEEN asked by Brenda Kennedy to discuss through YHIS the subject of showing dogs ‘the wrong way around’. She has a dog whose markings are, in her opinion, shown off in a more flattering way on the ‘wrong’ side, although they are not a fault...
AT THE start of the new calendar year the Young Kennel Club issued an all-new handbook which adjusted the Crufts qualification procedure for the 2014 handling classes.
THE LAST year was all about appropriate dress for handling. But we never mentioned shoes and there is plenty to be said on that subject as well. A few years back it was all about trainers, particularly as the fashion at the time was for the bigger...
LISA MOIR posted this for my attention and discussion earlier this week: “Following a story from a parent, regarding handlers going unplaced for wearing jeans, although smartly dressed with it, while a suited and booted handler of lesser ability...
TWENTY FOUR-year-old Roxanne McDonald has been an active member of the YKC since she can remember. This year, she reaches the age where she can no longer be a member. However, this factor will not stop her from continuing to champion both the work...
DURING the last weekend of April the Young Kennel Club decided to open its doors at the Kennel Club building in Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, to both members and non members who wanted to try out the wealth of activities on offer to young people.
A YOUNGSTER from Northants has raised over £200 in aid of an all-new fundraising walk.
THE YOUNG Kennel Club (YKC) is giving its members the opportunity to come up with the theme for this year’s YKC Artist of the Year Competition.
18-YEAR-OLD Alexandra Duesbury from Littleover, Derby, came away from Crufts winning the intermediate obedience and advanced obedience with her dog Dodgin Amber Gambler.
