Raising a Champion: A Beginner's Guide to Showing Dogs

Whether you're new to showing dogs, or are a breeder sending a show puppy to a new home, here's an award-winning book that will help get your show puppy off to a great start! Raising a Champion is the complete handbook for people who show their own dogs! Raising a Champion has complete, detailed and fully illustrated instructions! Twenty five chapters contain step-by-step information about training for and competing in the show ring. The FAQs answer questions that every handler asks at some time. Counting championship points is carefully explained and illustrated with dozens of worked examples

Meredith John and Carole Richards are breeders, trainers, teachers and handlers, each with more than 25 years of competing in dog sports. Between them, they have earned more than 50 AKC conformation championships with a variety of breeds, as well as titles in obediene, agility, tracking and field events.