Where do I start on this.... Probably the most embarrassing and my reality check for NOT showing dogs with perfect temperaments. I showed a kind of screwy 10 month old male and we were at the National. He was fine for Futurity and Sweeps, but our judge for the regular classes only had one arm due to Polio. Well, Parker wanted NOTHING to do with that and barked the entire time we were in the ring - and I mean barked like he was going to kill her. Finally excused myself... I had a beaded necklace fall apart in the group ring after a dog grabbed it - 100's or what seemed like 100's of little beads falling and bouncing on the floor.... Took a while to find them all - and I wear nothing like that now. Had a dog who decided that while we were in the group ring, the table was in his way and he jumped up on the table and jumped off while on a go around.. Of course everyone laughed and we got a Group 4 out of it. I fell on a dog in the breed ring and almost flattened her - worst part about it is I was staying with friends and they caught it on their video camera so I had to relive the moment over and over and over. I was bringing our BIS dog Morris up to ringside and instead of waiting patiently while I picked up armbands, he decided to leap up on the stewards' table and then walk across to the table in the breed ring. Not so bad except the breed a head of us was still in there. I could post a whole lot more than just that :-) I wish newbies could understand that if you show long enough, everything happens :-) Jess M.Paisley Dals (www.paisleydals.com)& The Shepherd Girls (Simmie, CGC, TDI, TC, HIC & Pepper, HIC)Member of: DCA, GSDCA & GTCDC _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live?: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_explore_012009 ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================