cricket as I said I am sure there are plenty of better shows, and I saw a much better show when I was younger, but the show that came this year was bad. oh and yes my dogs CAN preform in any enviroment with lots of kids and tons of people, perky and Blair are freestyle dogs, are have awards and titles in in preforming to music, perky, Happy, Blair and Ripley are all Demo dogs and do this sort of thing on a regular basis. Happy LOVES kids and she would adore have kids throng to her to pet her, Ripley is flat out cute and while he does not do much everyone loves him lol Blair and Perky and Happy are show offs, they ALWAYS preform better when there is an audence, the larger the audience the better they preform, I am aware of the work involved, but this show could have been MUCH better, these people were trying to get their dogs to do things that my dogs will do instintly with barly a cue, they preform for entire schools and appear at festivals, actually we were invited to preform at the moosjaw Exibition but the herding clinic was reschedualed for the same weekend so we had to cancal. I am not saying that all shows are that bad, as I said I have seen better, but THIS show was NOT impressive and the host did FAR more then the dogs.