I was in 4-H from age 8-17. I skipped the last year I was able to be in it as our club started to go downhill and started making up all these rules about not being able to show dogs if they were purebred or you had experience showing in AKC. They thought it wasn't fair. Boo Hoo!
I just quit as I wasn't going to put up with that. They were starting all these rumors that my parents bought my ribbons because we had a purebred Bernese Mountain Dog and I showed AKC. What they never knew was that we had gotten the dog for free and were not rich people back then. They also told my sister she could not show her green horse in walk/trot because she had ridden our older horse (that I had shown in 4-H from the age of 8-17) at a canter before even though he was old and retired and she had never shown at a canter before. Whatever! I hope most 4-H is not like that. I was a lot of fun until then.
