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1. on March 8, 2012 at 10:33 pm raeganw

   I have a Diane Bauman VHS about force fetch for obedience trials. A Pekingese of hers is featured. Apparently she trained a couple to fairly high levels. It’s no field trial, but at the upper levels it does require a fair amount of stamina.

   
   
2. on March 8, 2012 at 11:11 pm Peggy Richter

   Well, maybe one of these will be at Crufts or Westminster next year. (Peke doing agility. really.)
   

   
   
   • on March 9, 2012 at 8:18 am retrieverman

     This dog looks like a pekingese.

     There was a one named Beeswing that won an early obedience trial at Crufts, and there is a cute story behind it, which I will post at some point.

     
     
     • on March 10, 2012 at 2:45 pm Jess

       It is very interesting to watch this dog move and compare that movement to some of the Pekes in the breed ring.

       
       
3. on March 9, 2012 at 12:59 am sameykamp

   I’d love to see a close up shot of the dog as it looked to be far closer in type to the Peke’s I grew up seeing at a neighbours. Longer & straighter in the leg(still slightly bowed though) & no where near as flat faced as the Peke’s we are seeing in the ring.

   
   
4. on March 9, 2012 at 2:54 am Christopher@BorderWars

   Do not get it wet and to not feed it after midnight!

   
   
5. on March 9, 2012 at 8:14 am Raziar

   There’s a nice pos working type golden doing gun dog display s on crufts live.
   Lovely colour too.
   Off topic I know sorry

   
   
   • on March 9, 2012 at 8:16 am retrieverman

     There are a lot more working type goldens in Europe than I realized. I saw a shocking number of them in Germany, and yes, I can tell the apart from blond hovawarts and golden Wachtelhund.

     
     
6. on March 9, 2012 at 8:35 am Marcy Wright

   I came across your blog fairly recently. I am active in field trials and am a breeder of Labradors. (one litter or less a year).
   Thanks for all your wonderful insight and commentary. You’ve actually made me reevaluate a few things….thank you.
   Keep up the great work.
   (and you led me to Border Wars as well…thank you for that too).

   
   
7. on March 9, 2012 at 8:43 am Nick

   Toy breeds IN GENERAL don’t do well in competition obedience. I know that pekes are one of the current targets of the ..”show dogs are bad dogs” crowd, but they shouldn’t be singled out for that reason in this context.

   Obedience and most of the other companion sports – not to mention the training to do them – are really set up for Herding types and Sporting/Gundog types. Even within those groups (speaking generally, of course) there are breeds that are good performers in the sports, and breeds that are not.

   Agility is somewhat of an exception among the companion sports but even there certain breeds predominate.

   
   
   • on March 9, 2012 at 9:10 am Priscilla

     Pekes and other toy breeds don’t necessarily do well in obedience and other sports, but it doesn’t mean they can’t do them at all.

     To say that you’re giving an excuse to say, “Well, since they can’t do well obedience and other dog sports anyways, it doesn’t matter if we continue to breed Pekes the way they currently are” and give way too little credit to the dogs themselves. It’s just setting this breed up for failure.

     I’m not saying that all pekes have to win obedience trials, but don’t use this as an excuse to not do anything helpful to improve the health of your breed.

     
     
     • on March 9, 2012 at 9:28 am retrieverman

       Pekes aren’t actually as stupid as they look.

       The same goes for pugs.

       Both of those breeds are quite trainable, but they have conformation difficulties that tend to hamper them.

       
       
     • on March 10, 2012 at 2:33 pm Nick

       I never say never.
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       The only thing I am saying is that pekes and many other Toy breeds don’t do well in companion events, relative to other breeds. That is an undeniable fact.

       I am not qualified to comment about “improv(ing) the health of the breed” -whatever that means.

       I can, however, give you some very good reasons for the general poor performance of many of the Toy breeds. I already stated one general reason. Some other reasons have to do with the physical characteristics of specific breeds .and are not related to any training issues.
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8. on March 11, 2012 at 5:06 pm Beth F.

   Papillons and small Poodles do very well in obedience…two breeds less conformational-ly extreme and with high intelligence. Papillons also do very well in agility.

   
   

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