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Michael Romanos · 10-16-2006, 11:10 PM

The New Zealand Kennel Club has shifted its rules on the minimum age for showing dogs in conformation.
From January 1, 2007 it will be at three months instead of four months.
It use to be this way when I first got involved with dog shows.
It means that a pup needs to be more quickly trained up if the owner wants to kick start their show career off early and take advantage of entering in baby puppy classes at the shows. The baby puppy class finishes when they reach six months and then they move on to puppy classes.
I expect a reason for the shift in rules is to take advantage of new vaccination programmes for dogs in their puppyhood.

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Michael Romanos Global Moderator Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Silverstream (near Wellington, the capital of NZ) Posts: 4,900 Images: 2	Showing age reduced The New Zealand Kennel Club has shifted its rules on the minimum age for showing dogs in conformation. From January 1, 2007 it will be at three months instead of four months. It use to be this way when I first got involved with dog shows. It means that a pup needs to be more quickly trained up if the owner wants to kick start their show career off early and take advantage of entering in baby puppy classes at the shows. The baby puppy class finishes when they reach six months and then they move on to puppy classes. I expect a reason for the shift in rules is to take advantage of new vaccination programmes for dogs in their puppyhood.