DARN (I edited it so Tina doesn't have to) IT! I was all good till I read Jeanne's, now I'm crying!
It's hard, I have so many thoughts jumbling through my head on how I want to do it, how things should be broken up, which constitues a chapter and which is just a subject in a chapter, different stories I want to use, how should I find a publisher, should I publish it myself, quotations that spin around my head only to evaporate in the cavernous hollows of my psyche (there's lots of caverns there). I started carrying a note book to jot stuff down, but I forget alot.
I'm not doing this to make money or be famous (Despite my witty thread title). I just think that the big dog owners are misunderstood not only in the dog world but in the general population at large. I mean there's news spots and segments on talk shows about purse dogs, and designer breeds, and people who take their dogs to the spa and spend $25,000 on a designer puppy bed. No one ever talks about the big dog people. They're either crazy or .... well crazy is the only thing I think I've ever been called for sharing a bed with a dog bigger than me. I think the reason people react the way they do to big dogs is because they don't understand them. And they DO react.
That's something I'm going to say in the book. There is no middle ground with giant dogs. If you walk a pitbull or a chihuahua down the street, you'll get some reactions. But alot of people will just see you as a person walking your dog. You walk a Dane or a Saint down the street and EVERYONE notices. They'll talk about you like you're not even there "OMG they must be loaded to feed something like that" or "How can you bring a monster like that out in public? SOOO thoughtless!" or they'll cross the street, or bombard you and start spitting out questions, or stories of big dogs they know/saw/heard of, which are usually hyperbolized to the point of total fiction, with the only truth being there was a dog involved somewhere, or they tell you how much they know of your particualr breed of dog which is usually gleaned from Hollywood or their own imagination. A giant dog is usually not a good choice for someone who's shy, or prone to fits of rage, or who is obsessed with punctuality. They CAN be, and are succesfully owned by these types of people, but not without sacrifice on the part of the owner.
And here I am writing the damn thing already!
Copyrighted 2005 by Angela Armstrong
