I am starting handling classes soon to get Icon started in conformation, I'm just wondering if anyone else on this site shows their huskies? I am curious as to how different this will be compared to his obedience/basic obedience/ advanced obedience classes. He was also in a rally obedience class but he didn't like it bc it was hot out when the class was going on... I guess wish me luck:) Icon has his canine good citizen title and he competed in an akc puppy match when he was 4 months old, so he couldn't score any points yet.

would love to hear how it goes, i used to show my ferrets when i had them but we did not have to do any classes for that.

I just don't want to go in looking like an idiot, you know I know barely anything about conformation I just hear they're really strict so I am trying to get all my bases covered before I attempt it.

With that amount of work already put in I'm sure you'll breeze right through it. Never shown a dog or seen a live show myself. Sounds like you're a bit nervous. It looks simple from the big leather chair in the living room. It's a class, I assume that means you have somewhere to screw up.

Thanks:) I am nervous, I am a bit OCD with Icon and his training...

And I just found out classes start April 16th:)

That's real soon. Good luck with that!

Thanks:)

Good luck! I'm not sure that we have any show dogs on here yet, so you might be our first! Let us know how it goes... and hopefully someone with showing experience will join soon

Well thought I would update everyone on how Icon's conformation classes are going:
First off: we decided to go with a different class that is about 55 minutes away from my house, and on a different time zone. So, we left for class around 8 our time and the class started at 8 their time and went for an hour, and we just arrived home about 23 min ago or so... Yikes! But it's really fun! It's cool because the kennel club that hosts it has a different instructor each week so the dogs get experience with a multitude of different judges, and it's an open class so I'm not paying for 8 weeks of once weekly training even if I can't make it one week or whatever, I come when I can, drop 5 bucks in the lady's hand, and pick up where I left off:) There was actually a couple mastiff pups there that, well, really aren't pups anymore, but they go to my clinic. They got HUGE! A breeder that I have been in contact with for a few months introduced me to this place and she takes her pups there. They are gorgeous babies:) but sadly they weren't there this week:(
Icon did absolutely amazing, but, as these things normally go, I still have a lot to learn... But hey that's what I'm there for right? And it's so fun I can't wait til next week!

So how's it going now? I've been taking my new one to conformation classes and we went to a match.