Dog People

Today was a training day for Tangie.  She's been really doing well with obedience (not her best) some rally-o which is more fun and more interesting for her and she even started agility training that is the MOST fun for her.  She's been letting go of some of her fearfulness so that she can have a good time!  Who wouldn't be in favor of that?

Jenny was sick today, vomiting a lot.  My guess is that the aged dead lizard she ate just doesn't agree with her.  She's taking it easy today and getting pepcid instead of lizard.

Jintsy is sleeping.  She continues to pace for miles sometimes - mostly at night when I'd like to be sleeping, so I'm always tired and it's no wonder I haven't kept up the blog.  Right now, I think she's waking up and when she wakes up she wants to eat and if you saw her you would think I never feed her.  She eats at least 4 or 5 times a day which is quite a bit for a little girl.

So, basically I'm insane over my dogs, always worried that they are happy, healthy and sort of well behaved.  From what I've seen, people treat their dogs more and more like children.  Some dogs have better wardrobes than I do!  Yet, today, I saw something for the first time in my life that I hope I never see again.  At school today there were several classes going on at the same time and we were not in the agility group today but in a small group next to them doing what is called rally-o.  I heard a dog scuffle behind me and didn't pay close attention because usually those things are handled pretty quickly.  Then I heard this awful thwomping sound and when I turned to see what it was I was shocked to see this woman beating her dog.  She was hitting the dog, a shepherd type, on her side pretty hard and the people right near her objected and were trying to get her to stop.  She kept hitting the dog and told them she couldn't have the dog doing what ever it was that she thought the dog did.  Finally they convinced her that the dog didn't do anything wrong and she stopped.  But, this image is burned in my brain now.  The poor dog just dangling from one arm of the woman and being beat by the other hand, looking stunned.  This woman was not tiny either. Dog People, you never know.