[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: newbies/oldbies - finding the right breed
- From: <almanya@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:19:06 -0400
I agree 100%
rude and unfriendly behavior is in the entire sport..............anytime you
have competition, you having breeding grounds for contempt and rudeness.
It's the nature of the beast in any kind of competition.
Fight or flight...................
Fight back and keep progressing and getting better and better dogs and
improve on the breed.....................
or
Flight........ie quit because you can't take the heat.
Most of us in this sport are the fighters so to speak..........thick skinned
and the will to improve and do better and better!! (Not fight as in be
nasty)
On the positive, I have met so many great people and had so much fun in this
sport that the good outweighs any bad! I do not know where I would be
without this hobby and this great breed in my life. I cannot even imagine
it.
How many times we have laughed till our sides hurt and enjoyed each others
companies so much. Who doesn't have that great anticipation and anxiousness
each time we walk out the door to a show ? It is all my life and i'll take
the good the bad and the ugly any day as opposed to none of it at
all..........Amy
Amy Safdir
Almanya Shepherds
www.almanyagsd.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peggy" <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <cinosamgsd@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:50 PM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: newbies/oldbies - finding the right breed
> I realize that the majority of listers are GSD aware only....and
> yes, there are exceptions.
>
> The entire dog world is not a friendly place for newbies. This is not a
> hobby for the thin skinned. I'm not a newbie, but sometimes I feel like
> one...and my feelings get hurt as badly as anyone else's. Many of our
> long-time people get their feelings hurt, too...but you pull up your
> socks and go on...because this is NOT a game where there is time for
> babying anyone...it's a competitive, often cut throat world. These days
> there is more awareness of lack of ethics...not that that's new, but
> nowadays we have a lower tolerance for it.
> In the old days, people who behaved badly were taught a lesson and
> not always in a nice way, either...and some of them stuck with it and
> learned how to behave...others dropped out and were not missed.
> Most breeds are welcoming only until the newbie starts
> winning...then the backstabbing starts. Sporting dog people are, for
> the most part, nicer than the rest of us (not the Cocker people,
> tho)...but there has been as much help and advice offered on this list
> as anyone could ask for...so we are no worse than any other group of
> breed people.
> What's that old saying? "If you can't take the heat, get out of the
> kitchen." That's not rude or unwelcoming...it's a fact. Newbies who
> stick around will make lifelong friends (and maybe even enemies) and
> have something to do until they die...unless our sport is legislated
> away from us, of course.
> Peggy
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