Anyone compete with their dogs? (or are involved in any dog activities)?

[SlitherinSisters]

In my experience, the grooming needed for an Irish is pretty time consuming. I've shown a few, they can be real airheads sometimes! Out of the setters, I prefer the English, but none of the setters are well endowed in the brains department. Sweeter than anything though. I would not choose any of the setter breeds for competitive obedience.

Corgis are great dogs, but they need fair and consistent handling to be good obedience dogs. They are wonderful show dogs, talented obedience dogs and hilarious little agility dogs. But there are more bad breeders than good ones in the corgi breed, and care must be taken to get a good one. My corgi is not a show dog by far, but the corgi coming home in 2010 is from a very strong show and performance pedigree. I'm so excited!

Awww I thought the Irish Setter was pretty awesome. Although, I've only met a couple and they weren't show dogs, just at home dogs that were super smart. I wasn't around to see how long it took the owners to train them though! I just assumed that they were pretty smart because both dogs I met knew more tricks than I could think of! I didn't even think about the grooming part.....

Yeah, we have A LOT of corgi breeders around here, they are pretty much farm dogs, and Amish bred dogs so I don't know how much I would trust them. I've seen quite a few corgis in little agility competitions around here and they were pretty darn quick and seemed to listen very well! A friend of ours was one of the "farmer" corgi breeders. They were awesome little sheep herding dogs! And you're right about their personalities! The cutest little things ever!

Do you have a Pembroke or a Cardigan? Congrats on the new one, do you have pictures or is it "still in the making"?