Through the years I bet each and everyone of us has said the same thing over and over.? When you lose a dog or the breeding goes wrong, we have all had discouraging times in our lives where we just throw up our hands and say that is it, I can't do it anymore.? But.........passion for our breed, promising puppies etc. all call us back, its in our blood and very difficult to totally walk away from.? : ) -----Original Message----- From: Hellwigg <hellwigg@xxxxxxx> To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:05 am Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Considering quitting Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hey, I guess I am not the only one feeling this way.....and had the same thing happen to me over the last couple of days......=0D =0D What a great post=0D =0D Wendy=0D =0D -------Original Message-------=0D =0D From: BonJenShepherds@xxxxxxx=0D Date: 4/14/2009 7:37:56 PM=0D To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx=0D Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Considering quitting=0D =0D Hello Everyone,=0D =0D This morning I was considering giving up on showing & breeding dogs=0D (it's just been one of those weeks). Then I went over to the kennel and = let=0D the puppies out into the yard to play for a while before the rain starte= d=0D back up. While I stood there & watched these gorgeous 6wks old babies playing=0D and gaiting I found myself laughing. I was laughing because I realized=0D that I had been standing there thinking up plans for their dam, her daughters=0D from her first litter and even planning for her eventual grandkids =3D )= I=0D guess I'm just stuck. It's kind of like that old saying from the Godfat= her=0D Part III "Just when I thought I was out..they pull me back in" <VBG>=0D =0D =0D =0D Bonnie Jenkins=0D BonJen Shepherds=0D _www.BonJen.com_ (http://www.BonJen.com)=0D **************Why pay full price? Check out this month's deals on the new= =0D AOL Shopping. 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