Posted on 12/21/2005 6:04:22 PM PST by SJackson
I've had a couple of judges comment on how much drive my little girl has . . . must think she has something to prove to all those big lanky guys. She swims like a torpedo boat -- actually leaves a curling wake -- and in her first stick pond experience in November she was bound and determined to GET that *&(&^^*%$ duck . . . she did more crawling and squeezing than she did swimming. And when she got there the d***ed thing had sunk out of sight . . . so our bird boy tossed her a (somewhat) fresher one so she'd get a reward for all her hard work. The first duck must have sunk to the bottom of the pond, because we sent three experienced dogs out to look for it (one a GRHRCH) and they couldn't come up with it. I hope the fish enjoyed it. . .
And she has ALL her full complement of whiskers.
This is a collage shot of one of our club's training sessions. You have never met a nicer bunch of people - about evenly split between Bubbas and effete suburbanites like yours truly -- with the little Choc.
I wish people would stop breeding animals.....so many are killed because of it.
When my niece was real little I let her name my first rott Fluffy......:o)
Fluffy has since passed away......
A rott named Fluffy. OMG!
That perhaps is the one dog that can get away with being named Fluffy. Maybe a pit bull could, also.
ROFL
I think what you mean, if you would think about it, is that you wish people would stop indiscriminately breeding animals. First of all and especially the puppy mills, the bulk breeders for profit. But second, the "backyard breeders" who don't know what they're doing. And on that I agree with you one hundred percent.
I used to breed and show Siamese cats back in the 70s and 80s. My cats were very highly bred and much in demand - I had a waiting list and I interviewed everyone who wanted one of my kittens. The sale agreement had a buy-back clause - if they ever needed to get rid of the kitten for any reason, I would take it back. (I never had one come back and I kept in touch with all the owners.)
Same thing with dogs. I wish I hadn't spayed my girl, but it was the responsible thing to do at the time as a new dog owner who wasn't planning to breed. But we got into performance events and she is multiple-titled in agility and has her first hunting retriever title. On top of that, she is royally bred on both sides, with 2 Am/Can conformation champions and one Am champion on one side and multiple FC/AFC field trial dogs on the other. So as long as I bred her to a well-bred and titled dog (and, sadly, I have two in mind who would have been perfect 'nicks') I not only could have named my price, I would have a waiting list.
The problem is not with the well bred performance dogs.
You may be right.
When I told Scooby he didn't make the top ten he gave me "the look"...
On the other hand, we do have Lucy next door.
Awww.
G'wan!
You wouldn't be elebenty feet tall, would you?
what the HAIL are you doing reading crap thats a year old??????????
And there is the problem. Not a lot of hunting dogs, SPCA adopter's, and mutts.
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