[Jaegergirl]

maverick, my son and i are attending an intermediate obedience class. we took the beginner one and we "placed" 3rd out of 11 dogs...they had mock dog show as our "graduation!! : ) the classes are geared for those wanting to show their dogs but anyone wanting to train obedience in general can take them. although my goal with maverick is to do therapy work, i may decide to show him in obedience... i can't show him in confirmation because he has a disqualifying bald spot on this tail stump from an infection when his tail was docked. there are a lot of people in this class. i'd say about half of them are taking the class "just because", like me and the other half are preparing their dogs for a show in december. other than the occasional puppy excitability, maverick is very well behaved...never barks or growls at the other dogs or any of the owners. and he listens quite well.

there is this woman in class that really ticked me off. she has a grey weimeriener?? (i tried to look it up on the akc website but the "breeds" page kept crashing so forgive me if i totally butchered the name). we were watching the trainers demonstrate something so everyone was facing the center of the "ring". this woman and her dog were next to us. her dog was having a hard time sitting there. all maverick did was turned his head so see what was going on and the woman mutters to her dog "oh don't get to close to THAT dog, he'll bite your head off." all maverick did was look at her dog!! but i let it go.

later on we were waiting in line to do a recall (one dog at a time) and this woman was in front of us. she turns to me and says (quite sarcastically, i might add) "how dog is HE, 2 months??" i politely said "nope, he's almost 6." i could tell by the tone in her voice that she was making a smart remark. again, i just let it go.

third time... we were waiting our turn to walk thru (weave around) a bunch of orange cones. once again, this woman and her dog are in front of me. her dog, once again, was having a hard time sitting. maverick and i were about 3 feet behind her and maverick was minding his own business. she mutters to her dog once again, "oh i know it's hard for you to be still when you've got THAT dog in your butt." hello!!!! maverick never once sniffed the dogs butt... he wasn't even close to her dog.

so now i'm ticked off!

i was chatting with the women who was behind me while we were waiting our turn. she and her dog (a real cute mixed breed of some sort) were in the beginner class with us. i told her that the woman in front of me wasn't too fond of maverick. come to find out that she was making smart remarks about this other dog last week. so apparently this snotty woman has problems with dogs, not necessarily rottweilers.

when i told my husband about it, he asked me why i didn't say anything to her. now, i know that some people aren't going to accept maverick because he's a rott and people are going to make comments (this is the 2nd time someone has been nasty about him.. the 1st being at a campground..which i talked about in another forum). part of me wanted to make a smart comment back to this woman. what i'd really like to say is to kiss my...um... feet...but of course i won't. : ) i can think of some polite comebacks but.......

do i say something the next time or do i just keep ignoring her?