Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Dog show

This weekend has been very traumatic for me as my hu-mum and her family decided to take me to a "Fun Dog Show!!!!!!" The HUMILIATION!!!!!! I was entered into 4 categories: prettiest dog, best trick, the dog the judge would most like to take home and wait for it ... the dog who look most like its owner!!!!!!. I nearly died right there and then, 10 feet away from the hot dog stand but, being a very optimistic dog I looked at the very faint silver lining in the huge black-storm cloud and realised at least I wasn't in the fancy dress category.


It was then, when I thought my life simply couldn't get any worse 3 of the dogs I had met at the dog training came up to me(the staffie,pit bull and rottweiller if your interested).
I'll tell you what happened later.






Tuesday, 3 July 2012

The lesson

The first lesson was "Heel". This involved walking!!!! at a very slow place whilst being strangled by a chain for going too slow or too fast I walked up and down for what felt like 3 hours when an old man entered towing a black Labrador. When the lady-man dressed him in the chain lead his man dragged him over to me.
At this point I was exhausted and being dragged and choked up and down and the labrador  said, "Hi, I'm Pace.You really don't understand what this is about do you?"
"Poppy and no I don't not really, this is my first time. You?"
"My old man's been taking me since I was a pup.The point of heel is to walk by the end of their shoe" He advised me.
I honestly don't see the point in walking at the end of a shoe. A shoe is the most boring place on earth especially since they don't let you chew on them for some reason. And people walk at such a slow pace they're not really moving anywhere but still moving me legs!!!!
I was VERY TIRED by the end but at least I wasn't choking.
After the lesson the owners left 'us dogs' alone whilst they 'talked business'.
"I'll give you 10kg of ham if you let me beat 'em up"growled the staffie
"I'll take the rat dog and you get the lab"laughed the pit bull.
Then he pounced on me with vicious jaws and It was simply TERRIFYING. The next thing I knew the lady-man and hu-mum were dragging the pit bull off of me and I was bundled in a car with a bleeding Pace and driven to the vets.
The vet examined me and stitched me up and said I would be fine in a couple off days. That was a week ago and it still hurts me to walk on it, what do humans know?
The bright side is I'm not going back to school which means I'm free to be as naughty as I like.

School

After I chased two kids around the park twice my hu-mum decided that now would be a good time to get me enrolled in school and I can't say I wasn't excited. My friend Rosie told me all about school, she went when she was a puppy. She said, "You spend the whole time playing with the other dogs and getting pieces of cheese for lying down."This sounds GREAT especially the getting cheese for lying down part because I spend most of my life lying down and who doesn't like cheese??????
Anyway we arrived and were met by this very scary lady (at least I think it was a woman but she was very tall and had a small beard) who shouted A LOT!!!!! Scary stuff. she took of my smart DESIGNER collar off and put on a metal chain which strangled me when I pulled.
Anyway I was lead into a dark hall which had obvisouly never heard of cleaning. The whole hall gave me a dreadful feeling which wasn't helped by the fact that it looked that it was about to be closed down for health and safety reasons before christmas. But the worst thing was the dogs, there were 8 of them on chains like me held by men you wouldn't want to bump into on an alleyway on a dark night or even a busy main road in daytime!!!!
The dogs were all agressive breeds, bred for one thing fighting. There was: a rottweiler, a chow-chow, a bull mastiffs, a german shepherd and a staffie (staffordshire bull terrier) a doberman and a PIT BULL. Realizing I was in trouble I put my tail between my legs and hid under a chair.
"I didn't realize there would be GIRLS in this group" Barked the Rottweiler.
"are you sure its a dog it looks like a rat?" Growled the mastiff
"Its very small" Woofed the Staffie
"I'm no smaller than you' I timidly defended myself.
"don't you question us' boomed the german shepherd
"lets go get it boys" shouted the pitbull. They were all about to jump on me when the lady-man came in and the class started.