[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: What's your dog's life like?
- From: "Ruth Hartridge" <rhartrid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <murk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:38:31 -0500
MO, Got 'cha beat! I hve 8 adults and 5 half grown pups in the house NOw !
AM I Nutz or What ?!!!!ANd I rotate tham all in and out all day !
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: What's your dog's life like?
Kathy,
I have had as many as 10,yes, in the house, for the most part! had a
rotation system with the 4 runs in the backyard. None were out before 7 AM
and they were all in the house by 6 PM. Ones in the runs got to sleep in the
bedrooms and the ones that were up all day...slept in crates. Now, I am down
to 4....and that is EASY compared! Plus no one goes in the runs and all are
in the bedrooms at night.
At the shows....they are in the rooms WITH us! I can't do the crate in the
van thing either. Each to their own! I do easily see the difference it makes
in the dogs though. Nothing like a warm furry GSD to cuddle on the couch
with! Mo
> I max out around 6-7-8 the number I can care for to my standards, (time,
> training, grooming, routine and unanticipated vet care), AND have around
> me in
> the house...ok, it's a big house, lol. And yes, except for when a gal is
> in
> season or visiting to be bred, they ARE all simultaneously under foot.
> (LITERALLY! You could break you neck around here if not careful for the
> dogs and
> dog toys spread over the living areas!) That's the way I like them raised
> and
> that's the way I choose to live with them. Yes, it means not keeping
> everything and yes, I know I've passed on some good ones and skipped
> seasons and yes
> it means showing one or maybe two one year and waiting on a youngster the
> next. The Oreck and now scooba get quite the work out! So be it. It's
> my
> choice, I realize, not to be over-dogged, and I TRY not to be judgmental,
> (admittedly, I don't always succeed!), but knowing what it is to
> experience dogs
> raised and lived with as part of a family, experiencing the partnership
> with a
> dog that is trained to DO something, seeing the light come on in their
> eyes
> when they have a job to do, knowing how much time it takes to groom,
> check
> nails, teeth, ears on a regular basis, I hate to think of so much being
> wasted
> when dogs live all or most of their lives in kennels.
> Barbara's post hit a nerve:( The whole topic...It saddens me.
>
> Kathy, member GSDCA, DVGSDC
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