Text 42027, 93 rader
Skriven 2006-10-28 12:37:29 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 41981 av SHANNON TALLEY (1:275/311)
Ärende: Whippets 
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27 Oct 06 06:40, SHANNON TALLEY wrote to Roy Witt:

 ST> Howdy!

 >> An owner should take bad talk as constructive criticism and use it to
 >> improve their dog and take the good as a job well done. You should
 >> wait until you or they are leaving and thank them for their opinion.
 >> You wait because, you want to hear an honest appraisal of your dog,
 >> good or bad.

 ST> "VERY" good point indeed :) It's "intelligence gathering"....

Yeup...

 >> Kewl...I'll have to go back.

 ST> I've got a business model I'm going to follow after I retire that
 ST> follows in the lines of an urban farm; that being said, I'm designing
 ST> a completely new website for wackerwhippets.  It follows some
 ST> corporate models, but still in keeping with common sense <g>  I'll
 ST> shoot you a netmail when it's ready to test -- I respect your
 ST> constructive feedback.

Let me know, I'd be happy to help out.

 >> ST> airborne.  He is the one that runs with me. He's done three
 >> ST> 1/2-marathons with me!
 >>
 >> 6 miles?

 ST> 13.1.  The most I've run him was 17 -- and he just "stopped".  I've
 ST> never run him past 13.1 since then.

Hmmmm. That must be his point of endurance. Quick sprinter or short runs,
but not for very long.

 >> I saw that in the clip you have of it online.

 ST> I'm going to video tape some more this weekend, and I want to get one
 ST> really good video clip of a 3 dog side by side race from up on a
 ST> stand.  If I do get that, I'll replace that bad video I have now.

That will be interesting to see.

 >> ST> http://www.wackerwhippets.com/public/whippet/images/memorial.jpg
 >> Reading the poem, I gather that she was a friend to all.

 ST> Yes, she was a wonderful animal rights supporter and a fried to
 ST> everyone. She had a keen way of matching whippet couples to breed
 ST> winners :)

There was a Spanial lady like that when we had ours. She knew everybody
and every dog.

 >> May I suggest a telescopic lense. The video I watched was too far away
 >> from the action and when the dogs went to the far end of the field,
 >> all I could see was the lure.

 ST> Alas, it's "money"...  I've got an old sharp 8mm video camera. It
 ST> does a good job for happy home videos, but it's most certainly 'not'
 ST> a pro kit.  I plug it into my Hauppauge PVR video card and make MPG's
 ST> from the videos, and then record "those" to DVD's for safe keeping.

I used to have a Sony like that, although it did have a zoom on it. Not
much good for anything but home videos though. One day I had it on a
tripod and it fell over, on thick carpet, but it still died right there.
Sony wanted more than I paid for it, to fix it.

 >> ST> Well -- I'm off -- going to go see the Elephant Man done by the
 >> ST> Hurrah Players at an old theater in Norfolk tonight.
 >> There's a movie theater downtown that has been converted to a
 >> playhouse with concerts at times (not rock-n-roll). We've always
 >> planned to go, but we havn't made it yet.

 ST> It was "ok"...  I've seen better... We were there opening night, and
 ST> -- although it's suppose to be the best night, I think 3 or 4 (or
 ST> more) performances later it seems to be better -- the actors and
 ST> director have been watching the audience and knows what works for
 ST> them.

There was a German beer stein (500pcs) dinner and sale Thursday evening at
the BraunTex theatre here. It was cancelled, mainly because the seller
only wanted to sell by invitation only (but you had to pay for the
privilege) - which went over like a lead baloon. Instead, we opted to go
to a favorite restaurant overlooking the Guadelupe River at sunset.

               R\%/itt




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