Everyone who knows our family or who has come to the kennel to meet us and the dogs, knows that although my wife loves the security the dogs add to our lives, she is not much of a dog person. She gave up on my new ideas after I talked her into getting a mustang horse back when we were dating. WE trained it together and started riding when I tried to talk her into going into a full run. We were at a track that just happened to be bordered by a small zoo. I know I know, bad idea. Her horse saw critters and moved about 12 feet sideways at a full run, and she stayed right where she was. She kind of quit trusting me about trying new things then. Those who know her well know she also is not a risk taker. That being said, anytime we have new visitors to the kennel we generally talk them into putting on the bite suit and playing with the dogs. In my opinion it is great fun for everyone involved!
Be that as it may, in all my years of being married to Her (14 which again no one will believe) I have never got her talked into putting on the bite suit or participating with the dogs in anyway. Since I am the kind of guy that reads the last page of a book first, I will tell you the story ends with we are having My wife’s head checked… The events that lead up to that are the fact that last week at SAR training she decided to handle a Karma to go find My Son who was hiding. She even put my youngest in the backpack and headed out into the sagebrush at dusk fighting mosquitoes and all kinds of her fears. I still can’t understand it, but it sure bought a lot of mileage with me…. A few days later at Schutzhund club, you guessed it, out of the blue she put on the bitesuit and took some bites from Zenny. In the pictures you will see she is wearing flip flops underneath, and her hair is done up with a nice flower all testaments that this was totally off the wall and out of character. I didn’t hesitate to grab my camera though, I wasn’t going to miss the chance for proof!! She was a trooper. Despite a take down that knocked her head on the ground, she did get back up and stand there for a guard and a re-attack. Again, nothing about this makes any kind of sense at all, but it really happened. It also bought even more mileage. Funny thing is as glad as you would think I should be at all of this, I am caught totally off guard by the whole thing. She didn’t make any demands or requests, there were no deals, it all leaves me wondering Why????? What does she really want? What big thing is she about to ask me for? All in all I am just scratching my head… What’s a guy to do? We just can’t figure out women. See the pictures here.
Also here at the kennel we are loving the new place and the wonderful view we have from the training field. We have a great Search group and a great DVG club going.
We have been blessed with many great puppies right now, and some real great started dogs. Summer is rolling in and we hope you all are enjoying your Dobes as much as we are