[Ayoka]

I would have a word with the instructor...if she had 18 teams then it's certainly possible that she did not see everything. My experience in these situations is that everyone that sees it is too appalled to say anything so nothing gets said if the instructor doesn't see.

My approach to said behaviour has been 1 - to inform the instructor and she DID reiterate the rules and 2 - speak with the dog's owner to say that bear has a bubbble and little tolerance for anyone in his bubble - we've worked really hard to keep it that way I also reccomended the book I have been reading on certain behaviours. This more or less solved the issue.

That being said I have never been to a seminar with that many teams and any seminar that I have been to (starters level) has been operated under the "working dogs only in the ring - other dogs kennelled" rule.