Oh Donna HAPPY BIRTHDAY:D I hope you had a wonderful day!!!!!


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Happy Birthday Donna

Love that Aqua outfit. Is that a brocade silk? Also cough cough, Use the bow, not that hat/tiara type of thingie:D

Donna you have a great year, yah hear!! Happy Belated Birthday fellow dock diver:D

Why do I think this involved wine? :p

LOL this thread has taken all sorts of turns, thanks for the birthday wishes, we are back and I am not sure who is more exhausted Lola or I, the dock turned out to be more of a huge platform and about 8 ft wide so I did not trip on anything:D I am now having that wine Kazzy! Lola did great, I was so proud of her, it was a great day to go since it was not crowded at all, it took her a while to figure out how to get out of the pool via the ramp, she is used to steps, she kept swimming under the ramp probably looking for the steps. She did good on the diving, her best one was 5'6" and some of the newer big dogs that were there did not even get as far. She dove in the first time in both practice sessions which gave her at least 7 or 8 dives. She dove in on the first toss for both dives in the first heat, but i think was tiring out for the last so it took one or two tosses before she jumped, but that is when she got her best time. The crowd got a big kick out of her because the closest to do to her size had at least 50 lbs on her. The owner of the company said it is the first time he had a jumper show up with 5 outfit changes and in a stroller:D we were also the only one with a hairdryer and they were nice and let me plug it into to their sound system outlets. For the first round my friend (Patricia) disappeared and was to busy shopping the show to take Lola's pictures, but she finally came back for the second go round and did a video which I have yet to look at, they did not have a camera person, but some nice lady said she got some good shots and promised to email it to me (fingers crossed ). It was so much fun, but boy do I have a headache, I have never heard so many loud barking dogs under one roof. I believe we will go back on Sunday, maybe I will get better pictures then. I must go rest now, oh and we used all 5 towels I brought, thank you Gail for your tips. Oh and we were to pooped to hang our for the best dressed contest but they do have another one on Sunday. Thanks for reading my ramblings

I didn't read through this thread buy vets like any Dr or other professional are on all sorts of mailing lists...such materials advertisements on pharamasuticals, behaviiral issues, animal welfare issues etc etc....

If a vet claimed no knowledge of pet store puppy issues or pup mills in general I'd have to ask what bubble they've been in. To further have one advise breeding I'm rude enought to ask what pup mill yhey debark etc for.

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Wowee go Lola go. That was a great jump! I do so hope you get some pics. And I'm glad I had you take extra towels;) Isn't it a blast? Of sound, noise et al. So happy you gals had a good time, and everything went well. You will get used to the noise and stuff, and find your stride!


Now for certain go out Sunday, seeing as Lola had a good time; and you did too. So wish I had been there!

So I am a little late to this but Happy Late Birthday! Also glad yall had a great fun day!

Happy Belated Birthday, Donna! WooHoo! So glad the Dock Diving went well. Sounded like you all had a blast!:D

Sounds like you all had a great day! Go Lola! I love the part about the outfit changes and stroller :D I am looking forward to seeing pics:)

so far the videos suck they were to far away, I should have shown her the zoom. and the best I have is lola meeting a pig that someone owned as a pet and treats like a dog, it was very cute, and was on it's hind quarters begging for treats and was afraid of Lola, fun evening with the DH, I laid on the couch moaning while trying to get him to rub my feet and back, while Lola ran around squeaking those dang toys of her's I swear I was the one that dove 12 times today. dock diving is a tough sport:D

You crack me up! Lola could probably dive some more! Take pics on Sunday:)

Oh Morgan you are so right, she is like the bunny that does not quit, driving home she was looking for her toys that I hid in trunk. I was going to add that I am going back on Sunday with Hope an 11 year old girl I mentor, so it will be me, a year and a half old dog and an 11 year old girl, I am hoping I survive. Ok must go to sleep now.

I remember those days with Georgie now he's an old dude LOL I will say a prayer for you on Sunday;)

I think any vet so out of touch and lacking in intellectual curiosity that he doesn't know about puppy mills and pet stores in this day & age is too out-of-it for my dog and me.

Wow I am so lucky the gal that I told you took a few photos came through and just emailed me two pictures the first one is Lola in the AIR, how exciting I have an air shot, she looks happy don't your think. I really think she loves it, which is the most important thing. I am going to start a new thread in the picture section which will be more appropriate, but I wanted you to see it first. Yeah Lola

tee hee, I can't stop looking at her in the air, I really need to go to bed NOW!

There are the good and the bad in every profession. I have worked with human physicians for many years and have met some excellent and very professional doctors. I have also met some of the most irresponsible physicians you would never want to meet. Then there all different degrees of good and bad in between those two types.

I have also had pets all my life and have dealt with a number of vets. I have met many who care little where their customers get their dogs or what they do with them. They just take care of the pet as they see fit and give the owner the bill.

When my Maltese was a puppy she contracted Polymetra when she went into her first heat at 6 months. She became very ill and almost died. My vet at the time did manage to bring her through it. When I finally picked her up to bring her home he told me that I should get her spayed as soon as she was ready as she was way too small for breeding and it would not be worth taking the chance of a reoccurrence of the Polymetra. I had never intended to breed her I had just not thought about such a little puppy going into heat and kind of lost track of time. She was my very first toy breed dog.

Puppy mills that sell a majority of puppies to pet stores, brokers and backyard breeders have to have a vet to stay in business. Puppy mills have to have someone to sign the health certificates to ship those poor babies out. In order to ship these pups between states (in trucks) they have to have a signed health certificate. It's sad to say that there are more than enough vets that are ready to take the money from this type of breeder despite the fact that the pups are too young/small and certainly not healthy. I have heard from some sources that many just give the mill owner signed certificates that the mill fills in themselves. I have asked pet store employees how old particular puppies were (they usually give a vague answer) and so I have had them get out the paper work that showed they were just 6 weeks old and yet they had been born on the other side of the country. I wonder how many puppies die in those trucks on the way to the pet store? If you ever get a chance to sneak a peak in the back room of one of those pet stores you will see the cages where puppies are kept until they are fit enough to be put out in the for sale cages. Most of these stores give the pups shots right there on site and worm them as well. Now that's professional. No wonder so many people end up with very sick puppies after they get them home.