[bookshare-discuss] Re: Dog Show, dog book, dog week
- From: lana <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:03:49 -0700
This is the best televized show you will find. The ones on Animal Planet take
their commercials during the judging; so you don't get to hear about all the
breeds. Sometimes, they don't say much about them, at all.
Unlike my previous correspondent, I am a nut about pedigree dogs. That's not
taking away from all those others out there who are eunique unto themselves.
I've just been interested in them for years, their histories, differences, uses
for which they were bred, how that breeding prepared them for today's many
uses, sizes, coat qualities, shapes of ears and length of tails. It's like
someone who just wants a car to get around in compared to someone who reads all
the consumer reports and catalogues and ends up sighing and making sad eyes at
the flashy or fast or big ones he can't have.
In short, I love the show.
Too bad we couldn't have the AKC book with all the breeds in it to read. I've
looked several up online. Sometimes it works. Sometimes not. The cbiggist
dissapointment I had was scanning two huge volumes on the subject. The writing
was scattered all over the page, around pictures and in different faunts. The
result was a waste of more hours than I care to count; so I really look forward
to this show.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, Feb 9, 2009 17:54:19
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Dog Show, dog book, dog week
>
>
> Dear Booksharian Friends,
>
> Tonight and tomorrow night the finals of the Westminster dog show will be on
> the USA Network. It's been running for over a century. Only the Kentucky
> Derby has it beat in longevity and that by only a year. It isn't that I'm
> stuck on pedigree dogs or am a stickler on obedience training., my own pet
> is a rescued mix breed from the dog pound in Georgia and the only obedience
> I require of her is to be gentle with people and use the yard to go potty.
> What I love about the dog show is hearing the enthusiasm for all the dogs. I
> wish I could pet all of them and fantasize about owning about 25 of my
> favorite breeds, like Pappilions, Shelties, Chiwawas, golden retrievers,
> cairn terriers, manchester terriers, collies, Welsh Corgies.and basengis. I
> can't spell them, but I know how they feel. I don't know when, but USA
> repeats the show during the day and I think you can watch it on the web,
> too.
>
> On my personal calendar this week is officially Valentine's week and
> unofficially dog week. In honor of Valentine's Day, Evan and I have finished
> adding the 6 Valentine's Day books we promised. In honor of Dog Week, he
> scanned and I just finished proofreading and checking in, "Dolby and the
> Woof-off. It's for elementary school readers and is another in our project
> to get more boy centric books in the collection, but I think that any dog
> lovers here would enjoy it as a quick, light-hearted, doggie, read. You
> might find it in the collection by later on tonight or tomorrow. Here's the
> long synopsis from the inside flap with some of my own blurb tacked on at
> the end.
>
> Off to cuddle my furry Blackberry Pie and watch the show.
>
> Always with love,
>
> Lissi
>
> [From the inside flap:] "The Woofies Dog Food Company is sponsoring a
> nationwide competition to find its next media star, and Bo Dibbs has just
> five weeks to train Dolby, the Dibbses' gigantic Great Dane-Labrador mix.
> Dolby can sit and roll over, and he has a great woof. But Bo knows that it
> will take a very special trick to win the Woof-Off. Then, one day when the
> telephone is ringing and Dolby is woofing, Bo gets a brilliant idea: Maybe
> he can teach Dolby to answer the phone! That's one trick that would make any
> dog a star. In this funny novel, Barbara Steiner's third about the Dibbs
> family, younger brother Bo takes center stage. He's determined to win the
> Woof-Off and won't give up, even when Dolby's wonderful new trick causes Big
> Trouble. The author writes with humor and insight." Bo is determined and
> funny as he shows the patience, repetition, rewards and surprises that are
> part of training a dog. As smart and eager as he is to please, sometimes
> Dolby just feels lazy or wants to have his way. Whatever Dolby does, Bo and
> his family are kind and think the world of their big dog.
>
>
> P. S. When going over this post before sending it, JAWS kept saying link
> throughout the synopsis. I don't know why.
>
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