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To: skr

LOL at show dogs being "trained".

They are not. In fact, the standard line is that obedience will "break their spirits".

That doesn't mean, as most dogs, that they aren't naturally reasonable animals. But many are not disciplined except knowing by rote how to stand and trot IN the ring.


19 posted on 03/26/2007 12:23:47 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Hmmm, my show dogs are trained, just not to sit and heel. They are trained to stand, to go around the ring with me at a trot, to allow LOTS of handling, looking at teeth etc, to put up with grooming and leash walking and being ooohhhed and aahhhhed by strangers. Yes, they are trained!
susie


33 posted on 03/26/2007 4:16:15 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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