Flatcoatluver
10-08-2007, 11:43 PM
Are some people just complete idiots? Sorry but I just need to rant a little bit. In Sage’s beginning agility class, there is a lady who just makes me soooo angry. She has a golden (Cody) that she wants to breed; I must say this is the ugliest golden I have ever seen. He walks all over her. He will grab her plastic Ziploc bag full of cookies and basically will rip it up. If the lady tries to take it away he growls at her and she just says oh well, he can have it. So of course I couldn’t just let her be token advantage BY HER OWN DOG, I dropped my leash had Sage stay, and stepped in. After the dog gives up the cookies she says... “Oh did I do something wrong”? *slaps head*
He marks everything! He has probably marked every item in the building, and she won’t clean it up because she doesn’t want to miss a turn! Kathi (my boss) just about flipped when I told her this. So of course I and my boss end up cleaning the dog’s pee.
At the end of this class the dog jumps up on the table (not the agility table, but a table that you put stuff on.) and she just laughs it off. My mom was sitting at this table, just standing there in shock.
But of course that’s not all, and this is what really pisses me of. I don’t like dogs running up to Sage. It scares me, I haven’t had Sage a long time, and I don’t know his behavior. If a dog ran up to T.j there would be no conflict, if a dog ran up to Zoey, there would be a conflict. I can’t trust Sage yet, especially when he is so excited to do agility. EVERY WEEK (for 8 weeks) she has let the golden run up to Sage. Every week I tell her very nicely to please not let her dog just run up to Sage. Every week I tell the instructor, he just kind of ignores it (until today). Well today I just about flipped on her because of course the dog comes up to Sage and jumps in his face.
Our conversation.
Me- “Again please don’t let Cody get in my Sage’s face, I have tried really hard to give Cody enough space to perform, I really wish you would do the same for me.”
Her- “I was just letting Cody sniff her”
Me- “He’s a boy, and he doesn’t like other dogs, remember he has already snapped at your dog” (He didn’t really snap at the dog, it was just play, but again she doesn’t understand dogs)
Her-“But Cody is fine with other dogs”
ME- “But some shelties don’t like dogs running up and getting in her face” (as I walk away PO’d
Cheers to another 8 week secession with her!
He marks everything! He has probably marked every item in the building, and she won’t clean it up because she doesn’t want to miss a turn! Kathi (my boss) just about flipped when I told her this. So of course I and my boss end up cleaning the dog’s pee.
At the end of this class the dog jumps up on the table (not the agility table, but a table that you put stuff on.) and she just laughs it off. My mom was sitting at this table, just standing there in shock.
But of course that’s not all, and this is what really pisses me of. I don’t like dogs running up to Sage. It scares me, I haven’t had Sage a long time, and I don’t know his behavior. If a dog ran up to T.j there would be no conflict, if a dog ran up to Zoey, there would be a conflict. I can’t trust Sage yet, especially when he is so excited to do agility. EVERY WEEK (for 8 weeks) she has let the golden run up to Sage. Every week I tell her very nicely to please not let her dog just run up to Sage. Every week I tell the instructor, he just kind of ignores it (until today). Well today I just about flipped on her because of course the dog comes up to Sage and jumps in his face.
Our conversation.
Me- “Again please don’t let Cody get in my Sage’s face, I have tried really hard to give Cody enough space to perform, I really wish you would do the same for me.”
Her- “I was just letting Cody sniff her”
Me- “He’s a boy, and he doesn’t like other dogs, remember he has already snapped at your dog” (He didn’t really snap at the dog, it was just play, but again she doesn’t understand dogs)
Her-“But Cody is fine with other dogs”
ME- “But some shelties don’t like dogs running up and getting in her face” (as I walk away PO’d
Cheers to another 8 week secession with her!