Generally as show people we should all be proud, all our dogs behave amazingly. We ask so much of our show dogs and they are more than happy to oblige, but even the dogs are just not in the mood for it some days. You know we sit in crowded rooms with hundreds of dogs, rarely a cross word, well between the dogs anyway. We take them in a ring where a stranger pokes and prods and stick their fingers in their mouths, we move them in circles in groups and expect them to stand still for minutes at a time ... and my god they do it to please us, most of them with great enthusiasm. I have had dogs who hated it, Kiri to a point and of course Ziva. If they hate it they simply don't have to go!
Sometimes, just sometimes I wish owners where just a little more careful. Not everyone wants to be flattened by an over exuberant GSD, teaching Ross that not everyone and/or their dog wants to speak to him has been hard and I always tell anyone who speaks to him, Kaiah or Sammi that they may jump up .. and that Loki will ignore them ..lol Seriously though, I believe it's bad manners to allow dogs to launch themselves at other people and their dogs, maybe the other dog is having a bad day! My dogs are noisy, exuberant and happy at shows but where other people and their dogs are concerned I do try and give them their space, all I can hope is that other people in my breed and other grant us the same courtesy ...
