Re: Dog gone...

["GESA BRINKS" <gesaeqfx@pe.net>]

Yeah Sandy,  I totally agree with you,  re: dogs.  Every now and then I
would take my little dog with me...but....She was always in a pen or on a
leash.  She was actually a pain in the butt...but, my husband didnt like her
much and she wouldnt listen to him.  Sooooo she came to the rides with me.
I cant understand why people think that their dogs are so darn special that
they should have the run of the camp/vet checks.  When Im working on peoples
horses..at their homes even....I ask them to remove their dogs from the area
where Im working.  It is the pits to be working on a cranky or spooky horse
and go to back away from the horse and fall over a darn dog.  Better yet, to
have the horse step on the dog and all hell breaks loose with me standing on
my stool.   Im a dog lover, but..there is a time and a place for them  and
running loose in camp isnt one of those times.   I remember a couple of
rottweilers running off with my dinner one time.  They took the dang steak
right off the camp stove and ate the pot of beans too!!  Pissed me off big
time!!!!!!!  The people camped next to me shared their dinner with me.  I
still hope those dogs burned their noses real good. :-)   Another fun thing
is when the male dogs come over and pees on your hay, saddle, buckets etc.
I wanted to KILL an aussie mix at one ride.  Hmmmm I have quite a few dog
stories now that I think about it.  I wont bother y'all with it tho.  Thanks
for letting me vent on one of my pet peaves.  Gesa
-----Original Message-----
From: SandyDSA@aol.com <SandyDSA@aol.com>
To: sshaw@pacbell.net <sshaw@pacbell.net>; ridecamp@endurance.net
<ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Monday, May 29, 2000 8:27 AM
Subject: RC: Dog gone...


>In a message dated 5/25/00 2:37:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>sshaw@pacbell.net writes:
>
><<  have a pet peeve about dogs in Endurance.....
>
> Yes, we have to bring our responsibilities with us... Kids, dogs, wives,
> etc. But they should be kept tied up or on leases. And not at the vet
> checks, pre-ride meetings (Hear this Wendy M?)  At Castle Rock everyone
> was pretty responsible and kept their dogs confined.
>
> Bring them but don't show them off, as so many seem to want to.
>  >>
>Boy do I ditto THIS! I love my dogs enough to let them be dogs - they get
to
>stay home when we travel, well cared for, lolling the days away as they
like
>to do since they are, well, DOGS! It seems to me that having the horses to
>care for at a ride is plenty - why drag my dogs along?  So, having left MY
>dogs at home, I surely don't want someone's else's dog being a nuisance or
a
>danger (i.e., the dogs running LOOSE at Malibu, EVEN THOUGH the rules of
the
>PARK stated clearly that dogs amay NOT be off leash, and at the expense of
>being kicked off the premises and thereby out of the ride, you'd think
people
>would have listened up a little - yet Karyne had to tell some people at the
>ride meeting "GO GET YOUR DOGS PEOPLE or you may be kicked out"! Well
>admittedly, they WERE on a leash - at least 2 of them - galloping all over
>the place dragging their leashes behind them. Of course, if these people
WERE
>kicked out, they would belly ache until the second coming about their
infair
>treatment. I relly liked the woman at Warner who (After hearing her dog
yelp
>in her HORSE TRAILER for hours) told some people around her how her dog
LOVED
>these rides!. Hmmm. Dumb dog.
>
>I agree with Steve, and the bottom line is that no one is so dad-gum
>important taht you have the right to skirt or downright tramp on the
rules -
>they apply to everyone - leave your dogs at home when the rules state "no
>dogs". Keep them confined if they are allowed and you feel somehow more
>secure or important with them. But for heaven's sake, DON'T impose your
dogs
>on anyone else. I don't know of anyone with an active brain cell who likes
a
>dog running between their horses' legs (we had this last year at two
rides!).
>If I had to guess what OUR dogs prefer - they would stay home and sleep in
>the sun.
>san
>
>
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