"We’ve been doing outdoor shows, so things that have been useful are soft crates, which I use for that ventilation when I’m out and about I take them for obedience. She prefers to sit in her dad’s lap at shows, but when I’m walking around and I can’t take her with me she says in a soft side crate."

"We use a lot of cooling mats, and she has a cooling vest. Bassets are really weirdly shaped and because of that I bought a lot of things through trial and error, and the one I found for her is Kurgo loft coats. I think I have eight or nine of those loft coats. I liked that they’re adjustable and reversible, so you get two colors in one. When we do travel, I like that she can wear it comfortably."

"I always have portable bowls. I like those accordion bowls that fold up and I’m not too choosey about the brand. I love to have those because they’re sort of easy. When I’ve been at Fast CAT, I can hook those to my belt loop and have a bottle of water with me and give it to her at the end of the race easily."

"When we travel and it’s really hot, I use the QUMY dog pet boots on her to protect her feet."

"I also use the Dogswell energy liquid. I tried that for the Fast CAT races and it did seem to make a difference. I use those in that foldable bowls mostly because Bassets make a mess everywhere. It’s like a little chilly pop."

"I only use Flexi Leads for training purposes. I think they work great, but some people don’t love how it goes 20 feet in front of them."

"At shows, we carry a soft side crate for the venue, I carry a metal crate, most of my stuff is MidWest. Of course, at dog shows you see a ton of exercise pens."

"I use a lot of FitPaws for Agility training. The cavalettis I like those for puppies and senior dogs. They’re just little cones with sticks through them and you can adjust the height."

:I use RYOBI fans a lot — all the dog show people use that. It will fit on the front of a Midwest crate and they’re nice and quiet. People will put a sheet over the crate and the fan under it for reactive dogs or dogs that are maybe fearful, and the whirling of the fan seems to de-stress them a bit."

"I usee an elevated pet bed at the beach to teach Poppy to stay with us and not to go place to place. We also used it as a place to start for agility training to get her to hold a really good stay. We also practice place by the front door and now when anybody comes in my door she won't run up unless you say 'go see.' I carried that thing everywhere for three and a half years."

"I used bully sticks like crazy when I was taking Poppy to classes. I got permission from the teacher to bring the elevated pet bed, and I got her to sit there when I wasn’t her turn and gnaw on a little bully stick."