[nagdu] Soul Searching

[Debbie Cole]

Cindy

I'm so glad you enjoyed it.  Perhaps I will go next year.  I'm rather new now.
Could you send me an email off li8st please?
thanks

On 7/7/12, Cindy Ray <cindyray at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, the convention is over. I went. It was fun meeting you, Mark. But
> there were really some serious dog problems with my dog. Sad.
> I have always known he had issues with dogs, but I thought I had made some
> progress with it. But at convention he just came totally unglued. Nothing
> really bad ever happened, because I was on alert with him. It was tense
> though, and when he did what he does--growl and bark--people reacted as you
> might expect they would. He frightened them, and mostly they thought I did
> not have control of him, and they didn't mind saying so. I finally did seek
> out TSE. I couldn't figure out why I couldn't get the GL on him, after the
> visit with TSE, I did figure this out. But I have learned two things from
> this. I need to do something. I was offered a visit a long time ago; I
> didn't think it was necessary because I did and do know most of the things I
> might be able to do to help. I need to try them by way of going out more
> with him. But I will call for help because I believe that there are some
> things someone who can see notes about what your dog is doing or the other
> that you could miss. So I will call for help.
> Second, Lukas said his eyes seemed a little dilated. He thought I might want
> to have the dog checked for cataracts. He is of an age now where this might
> be a possibility. After that, I have decided that, unless there are huge
> changes in the dog between now and the next convention, I won't take him
> again. I enjoyed the convention, but I did not enjoy the sense that folk
> think I am a bad handler, and though I had the largest amount of control
> over the dog, I do et this. I won't put myself through that ever again. I
> have never taken a dog to convention that had this serious of issues, and I
> think I've been in denial about the dog's issues with other dogs. So that's
> it. Yesterday when we were walking to the ticket counter at the airport,
> there was a dog in front of us that we were following. My dog did fine until
> we were just about there and then he did his bark/growl thing. It was a dog
> with whom he had tangled earlier in the week a couple of times. What was
> that? I just don't know because up until that moment he had been coexisting
> with that dog well.
>
> Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. I hope all have a good
> weekend.
>
> Cindy Lou
> p.s. I just have to say it was fun helping at the NAGDU Table.
>
>
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warmly,

Debbie Cole

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