[Dailydrool] Westminister dog show

[Suzabells at aol.com]

hello all..
i would have liked to have watched the dog show last night or at least the  
partial rerum this morning HOWEVER... so did Daisy.  she watches television  
and can spot a dog on the screen even if the sound is turned off. she perched  
her entire 50 lbs self on just the arm of the sofa last night, making the 42"  
screen about 3" from her nose, watched the dogs coming out into the arena. it  
was the toy group. i had to get her down so she watched from the living room  
floor then, barked happily to greet each one and then lunged towards the 
table  the tv is on. there are movies with dogs in them and i have learned to 
change  the channel if she is watching tv, i don't trust her.
 
 i finally put her to bed, went in my room to watch the show and  promptly 
fell asleep, waking up to a white screen at 3am. missed the whole  thing!  this 
morning i turned on the rerun of it and she jumped at the  bedroom screen so i 
just gave up. i have never owned a more intelligent and  goofy dog in my 
life. who knew they would sit and watch tv?
 
as for conversing with your dog in a reasoning tone, i did it too when  Daisy 
was little...last year.  she began having barking fits, she stood and  barked 
at me for no reason that i could tell. finally having had enough of this,  i 
sat down, held her face in my hands and told her it was not acceptable that  
she sass me , that i wasn't going to put up with it anymore and to find a 
better  way to vent her obvious frustrations.  she cocked her head at me, listened  
intently and i swear , it was the last barking fit she ever had out in the  
open.
 
from then on she began going to her kennel, burying her head in her pillows  
and flannel sheets and barked into them until her fit passed.  fits are  rare 
these days but her actions are still the same, into the bed, bark bark  bark, 
growl and bark some more, then turns around , walks back out and is happy  as 
a clam.  absolutely amazing to me!  i didn't know dogs like  this existed! 
 
we had a cocker spanial who had a grin from ear to ear. when my parents  
would walk up the driveway he would wiggle out to them, grinning and showing all  
his teeth and it was darned spooky at times! but was he sweet and charming 
like  Daisy? not. was he well behaved? not. was he unusually intelligent? hardly. 
did  he want badly to bite the mailman, UPS man or any other man? oh yah, he 
nearly  drowned in his drool just thinking of how they were going to taste in 
the first  bite. he never got the chance. $1600 and lots of wrought iron 
fencing cured that  threat. Daisy wont bite anybody , i have not seen her be 
aggressive with anyone  but maybe there is always a first. 
 
anyway, i hope some of you got to watch the show because i didn't!   Sue/Daisy
 
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