Re: [PyrNet-L] If Pyrs were easy to train...

[BCavins303@aol.com]

Cathryn,
We got a pyr because we wanted a companion dog and she has lived up to every
bit of being a good companion.  I have never trained a dog for show, nor do I
want to.  I have never been to a dog show.  Show dogs seem to be a different
kind of dog.  I actually dont have the money to hire a trainer.  I never could
figure of why someone would hire a trainer and have the trainer show the dog.
To me, that would be like owning a race horse  I have a pyr and a golden to be
our companions at home.
I finally decided to answer this letter because my Uncle Dave has been getting
a lot of "DooDoo" just because he opened his mouth and said he had no trouble
training our dogs.  I can understand all of your doubts, but then again, you
have never seen him nor our dogs and have never seen him inter react with
them.  In fact, some of you have been downright rude.  Do you really think
that you it is all right to be obnoxious to him and yet expect him to answer
back sweetly?  Get Real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cathryn, I really dont mean to jump down your throat personally, but before
some of these doubting Thomas's try to condemn my uncle's way with animals,
maybe they should see before they open their mouthes.
By the way, just thought you might like to know that my uncle had both legs
amputated in Viet Nam and is in a wheelchair.  Yet he still manages to get
down to play with the dogs.  Of course, with no legs, he has a definite
advantage of being on an eye to eye contact with them when he is on the floor.
Angel and Reno stand by his side to help brace him to get in and out of the
wheelchair.  The 3 of them go for walks, one dog on each side with my uncle
hanging on to their harnesses which we put on them to go outside.  Never had a
problem.  During the summer they go to a lake near our house and go around the
lake on a path.  The dogs love it and my uncle really enjoys it.  If there is
a can in the cupborad that my uncle needs he will open the pantry door and
Angel will get the can he wants.  She will nose each can until he tells her
she has the right one.  So, before the rest of you decide that you want to
keep needling him like Ms. Mitzi seems to like to do, maybe you better see
what really goes on.  At least she has the option of getting on the floor to
play with her dogs, my uncle doesn't.  For him its either floor, or chair.
Some of you have been very nice people and some of you have been some of the
most rude people I have ever had the opportunity to converse with.
And, while we're at it, how many of you with your show dogs have seen a pyr
and a golden trained to get cans from a shelf, to assist someone in and out of
a wheelchair, to open a door, and to stand guard over someone they love very
much?
Bob