what does it mean when they describe a breed of dog by a number?

Question

WKC describes as Toy Fox Terrier #6.

Answer 1

Are you referring to the Westminster Kennel Club Show? That is the arm band number that the handler is wearing. All dogs entered in a show have a number, and the handler wears that number on the left upper arm. A judge is not allowed to know who each individual dog is, so when he places the dogs in the order he wants to, the number on the arm band is recorded by him/her. That number will in turn, shows which exact dog it is. (AKC registered name and number) The catalog shows the number of each dog entered.

http://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/2011/video/breed/index.html

Add: Click on Toy Fox Terrier and you will see Toy Fox Terrier #6 in the video.

Answer 2

Julie D is correct.





King Les the Lofty obviously does not have a clue that WKC is the Westminster Kennel Club and that each contestant has a number.

Answer 3

Instead of calling the dogs out by name in the ring, as this would obviously lead to bias based on kennel name or individual name, each entry is assigned a number to make it as anonymous as possible. The numbers 1 through 4 are never used since these can lead to bias in placing the dogs based on how close to the standard they are or how low their number is instead of quality. Numbering begins with #5.

Answer 4

Who cares? There is no WKC in http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/The_GSD_Source/links/Kennel_Clubs_001198303430/ and so whatever you have come across has no credibility anywhere in the world so far as dogs are concerned. It is presumably yet another scam-artist outfit in the USofA.



I came to your question expecting you to be asking about F1, F2, F3 etc or P1, P2, P3 etc. Or possibly about "Linebred 2 : 5,4" or similar.



In most of the world, # stands for "number", so #6 ought to mean "number 6" - maybe the 6th pup in a litter.

But Yanks seem to use it to stand for "pound", so 6# would mean that that pooch weighs 6 pounds.

However, the AKC's definition of that breed: http://www.akc.org/breeds/toy_fox_terrier/ includes neither # nor 6



But this http://www.nzkc.org.nz/br120.html breed (known as rat terriers in the USofA) is expected to be in the weight range 6-to-8 pounds.



A third possibility occurs to me - maybe you are looking at a show catalogue for a district club such as a Washington KC or a Winnipeg KC? In which case it is the bib-number (or arm-band-number, or chest-card-number) to be worn by the dog's HANDLER during that class. Alternatively, you could be looking at that club's results sheet, and that particular terrier was 6th in his/her class.



Your question simply does NOT give us enough information for us to know what context applies to that "#6".f.



If [cmspotts..] is correct about bib-numbers 1 to 4, we have yet another example of "Only in America" lunacy!



[Horse Lover]: I have NO interest in Westminster - none of my breed are shown there, because the judges aren't used to seeing actual GSDs that fit the International Standard of the GSD and have passed a Breed Survey. Those judges don't even know how the GSD is supposed to STAND, despite that it is carefully drawn as http://www.gsdca.org/Noframes/standard/Illo22.htm in the GSDCAmerica's rebel "Standard" that is ALLEGEDLY used by the AKC.

I personally dumped the all-breeds scene in January 1976, although I had been very active before that as exhibitor and as judge's steward, and in 1975 had been show treasurer for our equivalent of Westminster.

Les P, owner of GSD_Friendly: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_Friendly

"In GSDs" as of 1967