Hmm ok this is probably going to be long and boring, so I don't blame you if you don't read it.

I don't know if anyone remembers or not, but a while ago..maybe last winter?? I had Zeke in flyball. I probably had him in for about a year or so. I helped them with events, tournys, set ups and tear downs (of the equipment) I do believe a lot of my time was invested into this club.

Zeke has a little problem. He is VERY friendly with other dogs. He LOVES to play. I have no problems with Zeke listening any other time. As soon as a dog is in the picture, he just goes nuts and doesn't listen to me. (if he's off leash) This isn't really good for flyball, especially since the other handlers and dogs want nothing of this. A lot of people on the team thought Zeke was aggressive! One lady litterally screamed when Zeke ran up to her dog...geez! They must have no idea what aggressive looks like, because Zeke ISN'T. His problem is he doesn't know when other dogs don't want to play...he will play with them anyway...and I guess people thing it's aggression.

Anyway. Two people actually hit Zeke for this without asking me. The first one was ok, I guess, because he was "protecting" his dog. I think he had Zeke's best interest when he did it. He just grabbed him and yelled at him...Although Zeke wouldn't run fast coming back after that. He was really frightened...The second time was completely uncalled for. Zeke went to see someones dog, and he WAS biting the dog, but I'm sure everyone here knows what play fighting is. He was NOT being aggressive. I grabbed Zeke and yelled NO at him. Then had him sit beside me. He was behaving good, when the dogs owner comes up and screams NO at Zeke and hits him with his tug rope. Zeke was like WTF did I do?!?! Because at this point he had already been corrected...this man just hit Zeke for no reason as far as he was concerned. The man didn't even come to me and say "listen, smarten up" he didn't even LOOK at me. He hit zeke and walked off without so much as a glance. THAT pissed me off. It's my fault for not training Zeke right, so he should yell at me, not Zeke.

At that point I was so upset I pulled Zeke off the matt. I just can't believe these people can't talk about anything. Later on everyone else said No he didn't hit Zeke..he just pushed him gentle...yeah, whatever. I know what I saw. If I wasn't so upset I would have told him off. I was in shock I guess. Anyway they emailed me saying I was always looking for people to train Zeke, I'm not loud enough, I don't get to Zeke quick enough, I don't punish him enough, etc...I'm thinking why the heck wouldn't you tell me this before?? So I could fix it. I had no idea! I thought I was doing my best. I don't like to hit my dog, so I'm sorry if I'm not correcting him right. And I'm sorry that asking questions about training means "train my dog" urg....

Anyway...getting to the point.

I'm still very frustrated with them. I want to re-join just to prove to them that WE CAN do this, and that Zeke isn't aggressive, and that I KNOW I can train him to leave other dogs alone. He improved SO much the year I had him there. He would slip every now and then if there was a dog he wanted to go see.

I know I should want to join just to make a point...but these people are miserable. I guess I don't like to lose...and I invested so much time with that club for nothing. Not even a thanks for helping. I can't help but get worked up just thinking about it...I figure if I go back I can put it to rest.

What do you think?

Also I'm going to take Zeke back to obedience classes and see if she can help me with his problem...I think if he got a long run everyday he would improve, but unfortunatly I don't always have time to take him somewhere he can run offleash.