Another dog show this weekend, just like last weekend only Leeloo is also entered. We'll see how Archer gets on, I know he's a beautiful little boy and will get there eventually, he's just got to grow into himself - we here at Invictus love him anyway despite his naughty behaviour!
I like to get the dogs out for a nice walk prior to a show weekend to remind them they are dogs and this is what they're really about.
Then we spend 8 hours inside a hockey arena running around a ring and subjecting them to examinations from people they've never met before and pound across rubber mats set on concrete.
They tolerate this complete nonsense because we ask them to and rarely do we find them complaining about such goings-on.
When really, all they want to be doing is exploring the woods, chasing each other in the fields, flushing pheasants and eating deer poop.
After the show I'll take them out again so they can return to that natural state which made me fall in love with them all in the first place. A nice win is a nice win, but at the end of the day my dogs enjoying the freedom of the moment is something no ribbon can replace. It may sound trite and cheesy but it's the doG's honest truth.
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