crazy dog people...

Yesterday, me, my friend Nan and Drew took a day trip to the Clemson Kennel Club dog show. It was free, and I figured it would be fun for Drew to see all the different kinds of dogs.

Drew had a great time, strolling around, pointing at all the big dogs and small dogs and hairy dogs and sleek dogs and my I sound a bit like Dr. Seuss here.

Now, I have always lived with dogs, since I was a young child, and I currently share my home with a greyhound. So I'm not a total rank amateur when it comes to my child and dogs. As we strolled around, I never approached a dog with Drew unless its owner told me it was OK. I never let Drew get near a dog unless the owner invited us to pet it and I kept a close eye on Drew to make sure he didn't poke or try to hit.

Most of the dog owners at the show were very friendly. They smiled and talked to Drew and let Drew pet their dogs and all was well. Some of them, though...they acted like because they happened to own a purebred dog, they were some higher class of being that should be admired and worshipped from afar....very afar. They looked down their noses and sniffed and backed away as if even being in the proximity of a toddler would somehow despoil their pet.

Hello, people. It's a dog. It may be a purebred, but it still licks its own butt just like a mutt from the Humane Society.

And if your dog is aggressive, then perhaps you shouldn't be taking it out in public. We generally don't allow people who attack other people to run around free, so we certainly shouldn't allow dogs to.

But I'm trying not to let the pomposity of a few overbearing and obviously unwholesomely obsessed nutballs ruin what was, overall, a very nice day.

And thank goodness for Nan, who apparently knows every breed of dog in the universe by sight and was able to whisper to me what they were so I could look intelligent by saying, "Drew, look at that English Springer Spaniel!" instead of "Drew, look at that short dog with the long, floppy ears!"

And now, for some Monday Madness:

1. List three words that describe YOU.
Obsessive, scatterbrained, amiable

2. List three words that describe YOUR HOME.
Untidy, comfortable, cheerful

3. List three words that describe YOUR TOWN.
Greenville is Southern, homey and traditional

4. List three words that describe YOUR STATE.
South Carolina is sweltering, conservative and pollen-laden (is that one word, or two? we'll say one)

Comments

[Nancy Lassiter]

I'm still stumped on that last terrier that I couldn't identify...and the puff ball over by the chi's that didn't look like much of anything. I'm hoping it looked better once it was groomed...

[ebeth]

hey totally unrelated comment.. i was in paris this past weekend and couldn't get a memory out of my head. remember when we used to take french together at yhc and make fun comments out of weird french words. i kept wanting to say to someone 'vous et une grande piscine!'
:) :) :)