Wilderwood Presentation
I arrived home at 3:30PM, let the dogs out to run around and started checking my phone.....
I love Deanna, she's such a fun presenter, so I dropped everything...(and than had to pick it back up lolol) Groomed Gideon and Victoria, and we sped downtown.
We had to sit through a rather boring presentation about Genetics....but I was busy trying to keep Gideon from flopping all over the floor.
He has just been introduced to the Halti....(Chorus of "Aaaahs".)
After that was over, the pups visited while Deanna setup; I was a little nervous about standing up front of a group of people... cause I know they'd be puppies...I could make Gideon lay down, but Victoria hasn't been a situation where she'd need to stay still for long just yet, so I was under a little bit of pressure try and make everything look...good.
For the first 5 minutes they both laid down, than Vikki smelled something interesting on the stage and tried to go investigate it.
Here's where the importance of body language comes into play...hehe, since I couldn't correct her verbally, and didn't want to do anything physically, well just because, so I gave her the signals to 'sit' and 'down' which she did....but flopped, and flipped, and stood.
I sat down and held her in my lap...which she let me....for about 10 minutes, and than she was ready to go again.
Thankfully Gideon was doing a great "down/stay" during this time, as Deanna was talking about the impact these kids have on the dogs. She got to a section of her presentation where she played a video......except it didn't work.
So I got up and tried to work on it, while Deanna talked on....Vikki was laying down, so I focused my attention on getting the videos up.
Suddenly I heard a growling sound behind me, of course I whipped around...Gideon was beside me so Vikki wasn't being bothered by him....the growling escalated to a whiny, barky, squealy, sound, that went on for about 15 seconds, before she was finished and laid back down.
The audience died laughing.. apparently she wanted a part in the presentation...as if being cute and cuddly wasn't enough!
We finally got the internet to work, and played the video from our website....and wrapped up the presentation.
Gideon did have some "I-don't-want-to-do-what-you-want-me-to-do" and we had a little battle of wills, but I won don't worry! :))
All in all, we got our information across and I think we may have gained some potential kennel volunteers!!
"Hi Erin, its Deanna I know its last minute, but I"m going to be doing a presentation at the Crowne Plaza and I was wondering if you wouldn't MIND bring a dog to it. I can TOTALLY understand it if you can't, but Sarah was supposed to go, and we some how go our wires crossed, and if you could come its starts at 4:30PM. Give me a call back!"
I love Deanna, she's such a fun presenter, so I dropped everything...(and than had to pick it back up lolol) Groomed Gideon and Victoria, and we sped downtown.
We had to sit through a rather boring presentation about Genetics....but I was busy trying to keep Gideon from flopping all over the floor.
He has just been introduced to the Halti....(Chorus of "Aaaahs".)
After that was over, the pups visited while Deanna setup; I was a little nervous about standing up front of a group of people... cause I know they'd be puppies...I could make Gideon lay down, but Victoria hasn't been a situation where she'd need to stay still for long just yet, so I was under a little bit of pressure try and make everything look...good.
For the first 5 minutes they both laid down, than Vikki smelled something interesting on the stage and tried to go investigate it.
Here's where the importance of body language comes into play...hehe, since I couldn't correct her verbally, and didn't want to do anything physically, well just because, so I gave her the signals to 'sit' and 'down' which she did....but flopped, and flipped, and stood.
I sat down and held her in my lap...which she let me....for about 10 minutes, and than she was ready to go again.
Thankfully Gideon was doing a great "down/stay" during this time, as Deanna was talking about the impact these kids have on the dogs. She got to a section of her presentation where she played a video......except it didn't work.
So I got up and tried to work on it, while Deanna talked on....Vikki was laying down, so I focused my attention on getting the videos up.
Suddenly I heard a growling sound behind me, of course I whipped around...Gideon was beside me so Vikki wasn't being bothered by him....the growling escalated to a whiny, barky, squealy, sound, that went on for about 15 seconds, before she was finished and laid back down.
The audience died laughing.. apparently she wanted a part in the presentation...as if being cute and cuddly wasn't enough!
We finally got the internet to work, and played the video from our website....and wrapped up the presentation.
Gideon did have some "I-don't-want-to-do-what-you-want-me-to-do" and we had a little battle of wills, but I won don't worry! :))
All in all, we got our information across and I think we may have gained some potential kennel volunteers!!
Comments
Sounds like your fluffy goldens are doing great! Even if they try to battle you out on occasion. =)