People who know him love introducing new people to him because of this lovely habit of his. It scares the bejezzers out of them! Some people have a pretty warped idea of what they should subject their friends too <G>
The funny thing is this very same thing is what makes people think Baron is the neatest dog in the world! Go figure!
We borrowed a cart at a dog show twice before ARC for about 10 minutes each time. That was his entire carting time before the National. We ordered a cart but it wouldn't be ready until the National and it would be delivered at the national. Not much help for training BEFORE the national LOL
ARC came, we went and my boy preformed like he had been doing it for years!
At the end of the test, we waited to find out if we qualified or not. As number after number was called out and still, no mention of Baron and I's number, I began to panic. Desperately trying to think back on what we did to keep us from qualifying.
As they got into placements, I was convinced that we didn't qualify for whatever reason. 4th was called, 3rd, 2nd, then, there it was! They called our number for 1st place! I was in such a state of shock over it I almost wasn't able to go up and collect our prizes <G>
Baron had just pulled off winning the largest carting entry at the National with a class of 24. And he did it with TWO training session's!
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks??
I see ad's in the paper or on internet message boards with people trying to get rid of their 7, 8, 9 + year old dogs, look at him, and wonder HOW they can possibly do that?
I would gladly have taken their unwanted old dog years and put them on Baron, Devon and on. This is something I will never understand. There are reasons sometimes that you may have to place a veteran dog. I understand that. What I don't understand is how people can do it for nothing more than because the dogs age and the things that come along with age are inconvienient for them or disgust them in some way. In those cases, in many instances it would be kinder to help your old friend across the bridge. To be there while he drifts away so that he doesn't leave here being held by strangers or subjected to being uprooted from the only place he's ever lived and cast aside much like the weeks trash..
You owe a dog that much. Especially after they have devoted their entire life to you. They have forgiven your every mistake like noone else will. You owe them this much.
Ayla and Raider will slowly be taking over that position as they get older, and Baron does too :-(
Baron is no show dog in the conformation dog sense of the word, but he is one hell of a dog and has made many, many friends!
