RE: [inbox] [pyrnet] Re: Rescue: Parade at Nationals

["Barbara Mattson" <bmattson@francomm.com>]

Hi Shirley: Thanks for saying what many of us rescuers feel.  All too often
rescue is  treated as an afterthought.  Like the rescue parade, the rescue
meeting was scheduled on Wednesday when it was difficult for many rescuers
to attend, not when the majority of people could be there. Then there was
the parade on Saturday. It was a big effort for some of those people who
traveled there seven or more hours to sit around waiting all day--not know
when it would be their turn, then turn around and go home exhausted.  I was
told that the alternative time was 7 AM on Saturday--not exactly convenient
either.  If we complain, we are told to appreciate how far we've come--but
we still have a long way to go to give rescue its rightful place in the
GPCA.

Barbara Mattson
Northeast Pyr Rescue Coordinator
518-734-5486 Weekends/After 7PM Week Nights
www.pfne.org/rescue Visit Our Happy Endings Page     on

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From: owner-pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org [mailto:owner-pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org]On Behalf
Of Shirley McGreal
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 10:52 AM
To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org
Subject: [inbox] [pyrnet] Re: Rescue: Parade at Nationals


It was great to see several rescue dogs at the parade at the
Specialty. But I was very disappointed that the parade came so late
in the show - like an afterthought. The rescued dogs and their owners
started to arrive very early, but had to wait and wait. For about Hi:
half an hour a group of people stood in the ring chatting, which they
could have done anywhere. By the time the parade began, at least one
of the dogs had been taken home as he/she was not feeling well, and
some of the dogs appeared stressed. There were very few people left
to watch the lovely animals and their owners and listen to their
remarkable stories read by the narrator.

Rescuing Pyrs (and some near-Pyrs) in distress is supremely important
and the people involved are great and make tremendous sacrifices. I
would like to see this rescue parade scheduled at a time when lots
more people are likely to attend. I urge the planners of the 2007
Nationals to try to find a better time for this event.

The people who participated in the creative fun event on Wednesday
night deserve applause for doing such things as crawling round their
dogs, leaping over a foot-high jump while their dogs walked round the
edge, pulling a cart loaded with unstable objects while their dogs
watched, etc. Jane Gill was just great and so also was the sleazy
"judge" (!) whose name I don't know and may perhaps best be omitted!

Shirley McGreal


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