[susan tuck]

Animal Planet is airing "Ultimate Dog Championships" on Sunday. It supposedly will show the 3 levels of ringsport.

 

[Connie Sutherland]

Animal Planet is airing "Ultimate Dog Championships" on Sunday. It supposedly will show the 3 levels of ringsport.

Wow, cool! 8)

A nice departure from their Eukanuba conformation shows!

 

[Woody Taylor]

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A nice departure from their Eukanuba conformation shows!

I hope the same commentators aren't calling the ring sport.

"And up now...it's an old favorite. The Belgian Malinois. Jim, tell us about this great animal."

"Well, it's ugly."

"Jim, looks aren't everything...looks like a great pet to me!"

"You're out of your gourd. This animal is a nightmare in a home. Where the hell is the Pomeranian. I need a drink."

Okay then, Jim...next up...it's an old favorite. The Belgian Malinois. Jim?"

 

[Connie Sutherland]

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A nice departure from their Eukanuba conformation shows!

I hope the same commentators aren't calling the ring sport.

"And up now...it's an old favorite. The Belgian Malinois. Jim, tell us about this great animal."

"Well, it's ugly."

"Jim, looks aren't everything...looks like a great pet to me!"

"You're out of your gourd. This animal is a nightmare in a home. Where the hell is the Pomeranian. I need a drink."

Okay then, Jim...next up...it's an old favorite. The Belgian Malinois. Jim?"

Yep! :lol: :lol: I always think of the announcers in the movie "Best in Show." Fred Willard was totally hilarious.

 

[Woody Taylor]

"Now THERE'S a happy fella!"

Killed me.

 

[Mike Schoonbrood]

Interesting, gotta remember to set the DVR!

 

[Woody Taylor]

Looks like a full day of Belgian Malinois on Animal Planet, cool:

9am: Ultimate Dog Championships

1am: World's Ugliest Dog Competition

2am: K9 Patrol: The Best Of the Best (Canine and human soldiers train for battle)

 

[Tracy Cushway]

1am: World's Ugliest Dog Competition

:lol: I saw that already and it's nothing but very ugly hairless dogs. Oh wait........that is a Mal! :twisted:

 

[Maren Bell Jones]

Best in Show is not a movie, it's a documentary. 8) I totally need to get that on DVD. Even reading the quotes from Internet Movie Database has me laughing. "I went to one of those obedience places once. It was all going well until they spilled hot candle wax on my private parts." :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[jay lyda]

Looks like a full day of Belgian Malinois on Animal Planet, cool

Man, I thought it would be something worth watching. I figured they'd have some real dogs on there, some GSDs. :wink: :lol:

 

[Tracy Cushway]

Did you guys have the right day for this?

I just watched a Mal kick a poodle's butt in agility poles! Damn that dog was quick for a bigger dog. Ugly, but fast. :lol:

 

[Tracy Cushway]

LOL forget it....you posted the right day, I had the wrong day in my head. What year is it anyway?

 

[Woody Taylor]

Wow, this was a lot of fun and very interesting to watch. It was a Canadian event, they showed FR I, II, and III. Lots of interesting and skilled decoy work. I thought the narration and overall delivery was very responsible and informative.

Annie was a bit of a spaz when it was on. She heard stick hits and saw dogs on decoys, that's a bit more stimulation than she's used to on our living room TV.

Thanks for the heads-up on this, Susan!

 

[Woody Taylor]

So, just a little more info...it was the Canadian Ring Championships in Alberta. The entire population of Alberta attended (all five of them).

I thought I saw some lurker names there. And Kadi, one of the FRII dogs was named "Dite"...was that one out of your kennel? The handler said she bought out of CA.

Anyway, congrats to anyone here who may have had a dog involved, that was fun.

 

[susan tuck]

and the bouv goes in for the crotch! All kidding aside, it is nice to see this event televised.

 

[Woody Taylor]

and the bouv goes in for the crotch! All kidding aside, it is nice to see this event televised.

Heh, yeah. At least they were nice enough to show that (and a GSD in the opening credits!) before it turned into the Mal show. But I liked that segment they did on Mals as a breed. Really liked the explanations they gave of the decoy work. And the differences in protection style of those two FRIII Mals doing object guard (but it seemed like the winner was pre-emptively attacking the decoy?).

 

[Maren Bell Jones]

Zoso was doing the same as Annie. I couldn't watch the first 15 minutes hardly without him running up to the screen and following the action. Cool stuff! Makes me wish there was a ring sport club in my state as I don't think there is one.

 

[susan tuck]

It sure looks like a great sport....if only they would add tracking :lol:

 

[Mike Schoonbrood]

I hope it reruns, I didn't set my DVR n I've been decoying most of the day.

 

[Bob Scott]

I missed it also but no doubt Animal Planet will show it lots of times in the next month or so.