I see people in every single thing I’ve ever been involved in who are like that. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever met a person without an ego.
Most of the people I know who stay in the dog show hobby (not the ones who do what we long timers call the “Five Year Plan”) DO love dogs, DO put the dogs first and frankly spend lots of time and money on things like RESCUE. And then they get beat up by the media and people who don’t like the sport.
It’s ok with me if people don’t want to be involved in showing (btw, mixed breeds have things they can do now, competitionwise, if their owners so desire). What I don’t understand is the animosity of people toward the hobby I do love. I like dogs of all types.
Brytlea, I didn’t mean to offend you, and I apologize if that happened. I’ve just always been a big animal lover and situations which put stress on them bother me. I’ve only been here since the fall (though I lurked for three years) and I’ve already taken some flames from a couple of hardcore folks who see animals as nothing but property who can be misused at will....and I probably will again, LOL.