Please indulge me for a moment as I vent.

Today we went to agility class, after class we started talking about the various personalities participating in the Thursday night obedience class.   One of the reasons I stopped going to class was because there are certain dogs I think are too aggressive and I’m not comfortable around them.  But there was another reason, a couple of the human attendees ‘rub me the wrong way.’  I won’t place a name to them, but will do my best to describe them.

First up is little woman with Akita.  Little woman with Akita has brown hair and what I call blue eyes.  One blew left and one blew right.  When she is talking to you; you never know where to look!  Little woman with Akita is apparently a dog trainer.  Why she brings her dog to this class is beyond me.  Little woman with Akita likes to be the dominant personality with the dogs and when she sees someone who is not handling her dog the way she thinks they should, she will come over to you and show you how to down your dog.  I told Sara if she sees her heading my way don’t stop her; I will be happy to tell her to back the f&*k off.  Little woman with Akita likes to stand across the room from her dog and whisper his name; naturally her dog goes right to her; I think she’s showing off.

Next up we have man with two dogs. Man with two dogs is apparently quite a big executive at one of the local insurance companies; he is actually quite proud of his dogs who seem to be his only hobby.  I’m betting man with two dogs is single.  Man with two dogs likes to train his dogs in the center of the room, while everyone else is trying to walk their dogs and keep them from dashing after other dogs; man with two dogs plays a game with his dogs called; Articles.  He has these little dumb bells and he takes them carefully out of his backpack with a pair of tongs, then he picks up a dumb bell and rubs his hand all over it and puts it back in the pile.  He gives his dog the command, “Take it.”  This practice is detrimental to the class because the dogs in the center are a distraction for the dogs who are walking.  I think man with two dogs is himself a dumb bell.

Since I have stopped going to class, there are a couple of new dogs, and they are fairly aggressive.  I found out today man with two dogs is deliberately setting his dogs up so the more aggressive dogs will go after them.  If his dogs ‘take the bait’ he is going to discipline them.  This pisses me off like you wouldn’t believe.  WTF is wrong with people?  These are two very sweet dogs, who are extremely well-behaved and he wants them to fail so he can correct them?  How do you deal with a situation like that?  I wonder is he setting them up at home so he can correct them there too?  Is this his twisted idea of training?

More than likely I will be heading back to the Thursday night class, so I can help Marcie with Zoe so I need to really think this through because I’m fairly sure an opportunity will present itself and I need to be prepared so I know what I am going to do.

Delilah found a treat in one of the crates at agility class.

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