Re: [pyrnet] Re: Bonbelle

[JGentzel@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/20/01 5:06:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
lmweisser@home.com writes:


> .  So the next time that you are inclined to promote your point
> of view by denegrating others, it might be helpful to think twice about the
> facts.


Thanks Linda for the information about the excellent work being done by the 
West Coast Pyr clubs.  I think my point was about Bonbelle  and not any other 
dogs that have some contemporary French Blood. The facts will always speak 
for themselves.  Bonbelle's record will as well, and it is hard to deny, 
n'est pas. 

Actually your post is illustrative of what I had said.  So while I will 
always recognize what you have to say, I will continue to have my opinions 
and observations.  If you interpreted my remarks as denegrating of anyone, it 
would be only those who had  unnecessarily denigrated what I always 
considered a very decent bitch.  I am comfortable that history will be on my 
side.  Why would we not celebrate the achievement of a dog who has lived to 
see 14 years who is classical Comte de Foix breeding, who has produced 
excellent get who have gone on to produce several generations of excellent 
get?  A bitch who is the first Pyr since Mary Crane imported  some French 
Champions in the 1930's that went on to AKC Championships to do the same.  A 
bitch who won what is equivalent to Winners bitch at specialties on two 
continents.  Sainthood is a sarcastic exaggeration of the adulation Bonbelle 
is due from some of us.  It might be nice to let the old girl have her fair 
due.  She has certainly earned it.  

Joe