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sourland said:
Field trial dog - no offense to anyone, but my personality does not mesh with most show folks. We have dabbled in obedience trialing with our goldens, but that's another group of people entirely. He won his very first trial entered, got a second and third the next two and then contracted a virus that caused him to lose his ability to smell. His nose gradually came back, but he still remains as a 'weak nosed' individual. Basically he had to 'recreate' himself into a different styled dog. For some reason (I understand why) he is a dog that many judges choose to 'overlook'. I actually stopped running him at field trials the last half of this season because he just wasn't 'right'. I now understand why.
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okay, I got you. thanks.
 
From what I understand from my friend who showed standard poodles, It is a politically geared endeavor.
People can ruin anything.

He is the kind of guy that lets stuff roll off his back, but I am not that kind of personality.
He enjoyed the obedience trails better.

My dogs are just dogs. Wet and sandy and sporting tennis balls as accessories.
 
I'm a very politically geared person....but I try to never bring it into any place.....sometimes I fail but mostly I keep my opinions to myself.....can't say that for everyone though.....nothing ruins an event like political rants.
 
Sour, I'm sorry the news was so bleak. You're right, sometimes the only thing you can do is give them a few more comfortable days and then let them go. In the animal hospitals where I worked, we'd so often see dogs that were so sick they weren't living a life - a sweet little Norwich Terrier named Lucy comes immediately to mind. She was blind and deaf, and every other day she was brought in for life sustaining sub-q IV fluids. She'd just lay there on the table with the bag of fluids hooked up and running in not knowing what was going on around her. We've had dogs that paced their small enclosure in tight circles all day long, and in those enclosures we used Dri-Decking, which looks sort of like flattened Legos.....we'd have to bandage their feet when they came in or they'd leave with bloody paws from the constant pacing. I've had to coat the tongue of a Pekingese with oils because he could no longer pull his tongue into his mouth and it would dry out and crack open, and that same dog also required eye ointments because he didn't blink enough to keep them moist.

But they "loved" those dogs and couldn't imagine their lives without them, so the dogs (and sometimes cats, too) suffered just so the owners didn't have to make that final call. We could suggest it, but we couldn't do it without the owner's permission. One of the animal hospitals I worked at was also a big boarding kennel, and we did have one dog die while the owners were out of town. This poor fella had to have enzymes sprinkled on his food to pre-digest it, he was totally blind, he was 17 years old, and kidney stones were tearing him up. Yet the owners still came down on us hard, accusing of "euthanizing" Mr. Bancroft while they were gone because we'd "always been nagging them to kill the dog" so we must have done it while they were gone because he was "too hard to take proper care of." Yeah, right.
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Blooie, I admire people like you that can work in those places but I couldn't do it. I'd probably lose my temper with some of those oh so loving humans and get in trouble.
 
Blooie said:
Ya just never know what you can do until you have to do it, Debby! Loved the animals I worked with - just not so sure about some of the owners!
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That's almost word for word what I used to say about working at a neurological institution years ago. Loved the kids I took care of but the parents? Nother story for the most part.
 

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