And ask Sally Hayden about the auction at the Benefit!! VBG Tish In a message dated 10/21/2009 8:38:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Epeters93@xxxxxxx writes: My husband thinks that's where they were doing the blood draws for medical research. In a message dated 10/21/2009 8:27:09 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, TISHW writes: If my memory is right, it was I (capital I) and in the first stall to the right if you were walking from where the pictures were taken. Tish In a message dated 10/21/2009 8:23:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Epeters93@xxxxxxx writes: Can you tell us which row it was ? In a message dated 10/21/2009 8:08:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: Msg: #4 in digest From: "Kathaleen Strong" <inflight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Disconcerting Question Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:47:41 -0700 Okay, color me a dreamer, but I've never seen this before so need to ask about this on the list. While walking down the aisles from my stall to where the show was being held, I happened to approach a group of people standing around a grooming table which was in the aisle with a dog on the table. This is a fairly normal thing to see, so I really didn't pay that close of attention, as I was on my way to go watch the dogs. As I came alongside the people and dog, I noticed out of the corner of my eye, the dog appeared to be being flanked by the people to be "held still" while one of the people had the dog's foreleg in a vice-grip type hold and a rather large syringe in the other. I cannot distinctly tell whether the syringe was being put in or being withdrawn, but something of that nature was obviously taking place. I thought by the look of the syringe, it was far too big for someone administering a vitamin like B-12, and certainly the way the leg was being held, it appeared they may have been administering something IV, which B-12 wouldn't be administered like that. I don't really know because I've never seen anything like this happening at a show - probably I'm too oblivious, but. now, that I have seen it, I want to know what I potentially saw? I asked a few people, and they said they had heard that some exhibitors/handlers were injecting dogs with diet drugs or some other performance enhancing drug. Is this possible? And if so, wouldn't it be considered highly unethical and certainly dangerous to the dogs? Kathaleen ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2009. 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. 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