First in class (Long explanation of dog showing)

[Elf and Orc]

No: HPFGUIDX 1561

Greetings;  Could you be thinking about dog shows?  We first judge all
the male and then female non-champions to awards a winners dog and
bitch.  (I hope that was appropriate, I am always hesitanted to use
bitch with non-dog showing people.) Then those two and all the champions
in a breed are judged and awarded Best of Breed (BOB) for the best
overall and then Best of Opposite Sex (BOS) for the best animal of the
other gender.  There is also an award for Best of Winners (BOW) which is
best of either the winners dog or winners bitch.  From there, the breed
winner goes on to compete at the group level and then possibly for best
in show.  

Tina 
The Animal Friend Elf

> At 2:59 AM +0000 9/16/00, Rita Winston wrote:
> >Barbara, I see from your sig that you are a breeder of pedigreed cats
> >(long-haired Aby's). Don't Cat Shows choose Best and Best Opposite
> >Sex (sometimes abbreviated BOX, which confused the hell out of me)in
> >each category?
> 
> Not in the association I show in, but it's reasonably similar: