Last weekend we had the 2018 World Dog Show in Amsterdam! It will be many years before it is here in the Netherlands again. Yestie went with me to World Dog Show in Moscow in 2016. Makar was at World Dog Show in Leipzig in 2017. This year, Makar again was at the 2018 show at the Amsterdam RAI. As always, it was great fun to see so many dachshund friends, and exciting to be in the ring.
There were three days of shows, the Benelux show, the Speciality show (WUT for Dachshunds) and the World Dog Show.
We were really happy that Makar won his class at the World Dog Show, and was second at the Benelux show. In the Best Male lineup at World he was 4th of 7 males in the lineup, and at the Benelux show he was 3rd of 7 males and was the Reserve CACIB dog (the junior was 2nd and does not qualify to receive the CACIB).
I have been exhausted lately and not in the best of health, but I still really enjoyed being at the show and was grateful to have the support of friends to help out. Makar is like Belle, very easy to have at a show; we clearly need more training at home, but overall, against really super competition, we were very, very happy with our results.
Our next “big” show is the European Dog Show in Warsaw in October. We will be practicing now in our little vacation house in Czechia so that we are super in the ring (again). We have all had a bit of a training break as I have been working a lot of hours, hopefully this will start to ease off.
Photos of our weekend!
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