It will be terrific when it is finished but the pictures and all are wonderful. I couldn't get into rates and contracts w/o something I don't have on my computer....would think you'd want people to have easy access to that so that if they wanted you to handle their dogs they would have cost up front as that is often a deciding factor for folks who can't decide whether to go with a handler or try it themselves. With this past year of me and my arm if I had any serious show prospects I would have been sending them out with friends or a handler and I have no idea rates in bullies at all.
I know years ago when I had a really nice Sheltie, I took a year and half traveling to shows and showing her...ended up with either nothing or RWB: 27 major points in RWB...ie, if she had gone to WB she would have had all majors and 27 points. We called her the Queen of Reserves. It didn't help that I was out in 'Tom Coen' territory as he had so many nice dogs of his own and client's dogs and he and his wife were terrific handlers and I was up against them...usually he took WB and I was RWB...or I was last in my class...she was the type the judges loved or just didn't see anything in her. I finally sent her out with a local woman who did limited professional handling specializing at that point in Shelties and Collies....3 weekends out of this area...a state or two west...she collected 8 points and a major...then blew coat. A year later I sent her down to Florida via Sheltie folks express to another sheltie person, a vet, who handled a bit. In another 3 weekends she finished by going BOB over the top winning special in Florida at the time and then took Group 3rd. She was already entered for a couple of more weekends and took multiple BOB.
I figured out that it cost considerably less to have professional handlers finish her than it cost me and not get a danged point...lots of experience...a dog that baited quite nicely to Tom Coen who was always in front of me at the final moment of judge deciding btwn WB and RWB...she thought he was fun to watch b/c he threw food a lot.
So that is something I am curious about in general now.
Congrats on the neat website...it will be awesome when it is done!
:)Lorraine
Posted on Feb 19, 2009, 9:26 PM from IP address 67.240.243.70