[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: How do you handle......
- From: Pinehillgsds@xxxxxxx
- To: InquestGSD@xxxxxxx, showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:57:11 -0400 (EDT)
These were more or less people in the "thinking" stage...I don't have
puppies and when I do I usually have quite a waiting list of qualified parties
(have had GSDs, vet referrals, etc.) so I don't usually have to do the whole
dog and pony show thing.
My dogs are well socialized too, but you know, when it comes right down to
it, I don't want to spend a few precious hours talking dogs, playing host
to strangers "thinking" in the privacy of my home (buy a book, go to a dog
show!!!) AND feeling like I have to have eyes in the back of my head and/or
correcting someone's child (children).
It's an intrusion and an imposition!
When I think back to the old BJ's (the last "companion" puppies I bought,
my choice, not Betty's or the dogs')...I was never in Betty's house. I met
the puppies at 8 weeks not before. AND I showed up by myself, not with a
car full of friends for show and tell! Can you JUST IMAGINE?
But my problem very well could be that I don't have a kennel building.
Those that do meet people at the kennel and just don't invite them into their
home.
I received quite a few good suggestions. The "meet me at a show" thing I
was doing, but love the club meeting idea! Those who said "potty the
children" before coming....hilarious! My one powder room is down a hall
loaded
w/ art that leads to the master bedroom. Can I tell you how many times I
have been sitting w/ parents at the kitchen table and children have gotten
rambunctious in that hall on the way to the powder room and/or opened the
door to the master???? (MY PARENTS WOULD HAVE KILLED US!) My kitchen is
open to the family room...get your $#@* shoes off that leather furniture!
(OK the dogs ARE allowed!) The kitchen leads to a very formal dining room
(more art) that is behind a CLOSED french door. I've had children open THAT
door and want to wander too, I've had children open cabinets and I've had
them open the fridge and some (not all!) parents just sit there w/ a deer
in the headlights look. Admittedly if they were my offspring I'd probably
have a similar look lol.
Love LOVE the suggestion that children must be sitting, children under 5 in
a parent's lap. I'm going to put that one into place when I do have
puppies (visitors at 6 weeks then picking up puppy after 8 weeks). I DO have
them sit on the floor for the 6 week visit but it still gets crazy with 4-5
people and 2 or 3 puppies they are selecting from.
And I don't want to sound like I don't like children...I had a lot of fun
decorating for a surprise b-day party for one of the families from the last
litter...I just don't care for ill behaved children!
I have corrected other people' children in my home....my house, my rules.
It seems to fall on deaf ears though. The very next time I DO have
puppies, I am going to have Ileana up to manage the flow of children. I'll
make
you a nice lunch/dinner GF!
Thanks again all!
Kathy, member GSDCA, DVGSDC
Celebrating generations of Dual Titled TC'd Champions
visit _http://www.pinehillgsds.com/_ (http://www.pinehillgsds.com/)
In a message dated 8/23/2011 9:07:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
InquestGSD@xxxxxxx writes:
No problem. I am very comfortable correcting someone else's child. <G>
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