I was going to buy a new boat at SBS but..

[KevL]

When I phoned up to buy some tickets I thought that I had better make sure that we would be able to take our little Shih Tzu into the show. After a brief pause while some one checked I was told "sorry sir digs aren't allowed in the show". So that's it then, my wife won't go anywhere without Penny and if she isn't going then neither am I. One lost sale for Princess, Sealine, Fairline etc...

Now I can understand that great big dogs may well frighten people, dogs may well do what dogs do if left to roam around and I can understand that dogs shouldn't be allowed on the boats because some people are allergic to them. Penny would have been carried round the show just like everywhere else we take her and she certianly isn't going to frighten anyone.

Funnly enough the second hand boat shows are only too happy to accomodate Penny as long as she doesn't go on any of the boats and is carried. So it seems that I'll go and look at the fourty footers there then and maybe try and imagine what the new ones are like.

Who'd have thought it would be this difficult to spend this kind of money........

--
Tides - Never there when you need one.
Wind - Always there when you don't.

KevL

 

[stamfordian]

Perhaps there,s an oppertunity here to make a buck....set up a Doggy creche at all majour shows....co incedently i had a dog called Penny for seventeen years,a Yorkie.

http://www.arweb.co.uk/argallery/stamfordian

 

[petem]

Kev,

Sorry, but I agree with this policy. If dogs were allowed there would be the occasional owner who'd let their dog crap on the pontoon without cleaning it up. Peole would tread in it, spread it around and it would be horrible.

If you're really serious about buying a new 40 footer then I'm sure that Fairline/Princess/Sealine would be happy to arrange for you to see an example at one of their dealers/factory.

Pete

 

[hlb]

Leave the dog at home. I like dogs as much as any one but theres a time and a place for every thing. No organisation can be expected to discriminate between. Big dogs, those that will be carried. Or those that will shit and others that dont. Sorry Kev.

No one can force me to come here-----------
----- I'm a Volunteer!!!

Haydn

 

[lanason]

Nothing personal but I am delighted that dogs are not allowed.

Having to negociate them and there left overs in the street is bad enough. Last year a little one (terrier, bull cross thingy) came out of the owners house and sunk teeth into my foot. This dog has subsequently bitten again. This year I went to a neighbours house, walking down the drive only to look up and see TWO German Shepard dogs coming at me full tilt. Before anyone says it I know your supposed to stand still and talk to them --- yeah right ---- I legged off down the drive like a rabbit at the greyhounds. Oh Bu**er the gate was shut, never mind --- jump it - and I did - fell as I landed and was a shaking heap for at least 6 hours afterwards.

I'm sure yours is lovely !!


Adrian

Genius is not recognised during ones lifetime....

 

[petem]

Hang on.....

I think I might have come across your wife. Is she the one who pushes a fox around town in a pushchair?

 

[stewart]

Hello, Earth calling......

It's just a dog, why not leave it at home for the day? You surely don't take it everywhere, nice restaurants etc? And what's all the carrying bit, I thought dog's had legs for a reason? I can't even see why you'd want to take it, it's not exactly condusive to carefully examing and selecting a new boat to be carrying a big hairy thing round all day.

I can't believe that you're serious, I presume your original post was just a wind up?

Of course if dogs were allowed then it'd be very hard to restrict it just to canines, maybe take the ship's cat, or that small house trained alligator I've had my eye on for a while.......

 

[tr7v8]

I personally feel that it's not fair to the dog being pushed and bustled in what will be a very busy environment.
Thats aside from the poo issues!.

Jim
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[KevL]

Re: Hello, Earth calling......

Sorry Stewart but this isn't a wind up. SBS is a five hour drive from home for us and we are staying around Southampton for the week looking at various brokers. marinas, second hand boat shows etc so we can't just leave her at home for the day.

I wanted to use the show to decide the right boat for us and the ability to see all the boats in one place would have been ideal. I find that if I look at boats over a number of weekends/months it's difficult to compare them like for like but work comitments mean that I can't do it any other way.

What gets me is that I can take her on any pontoon in the country so why not the show?

KevL

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It may be the early bird that catches the worm but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.

 

[hlb]

Re: Hello, Earth calling......

Well just chuck it in the kennel then or ring the dog warden and tell him youve found a lost dog. Then go claim it back the week after! Much cheaper.

No one can force me to come here-----------
----- I'm a Volunteer!!!

Haydn

 

[Baltimore_Bill]

Alternatively - make wife wear dark glasses regardless of the weather and get pooch a dayglo yellow harness.

 

[Wexfordian]

Re: Shit Zoo Problems

Why not get one of those slings that people wear their new babies in, wrap the mutt in a baby-gro & bonnet and shove a soother in its mouth. Then just tell the stewards its your grandchild. Most people would be far too polite to mention how ugly the baby is!

 

[Guest]

You should get a couple of those helium-filled balloons and tie them to the dog, then you'll have no trouble sneaking him in over the stewards heads. Just be sure he doesn't crap on anyone's head.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

You've got to be joking! So you're at the Boat Show for 8 hours. Is your wretched little mutt going to cross its legs for all that time? You cant carry it everywhere so people will be tripping over its lead and you cant go into any restaurant. As for frightening anyone, my experience is, just like humans, the smaller they are the more aggressive they are.
I'm a dog owner too but I would'nt dream of inflicting it on a crowded boat show so leave it with the mother in law

 

[Trevethan]

Re: Hello, Earth calling......

Have to agree with others. A dog at the boat show would be a menace. Something small to trip on or over or kick into the water.

The reason for tha ban is obvious - you don't get 1,000 or more visiting other pontoons in the country in the space of half a day do you?

Find a dog sitter for the day and visit the show. If teh place you are staying at allows dogs, I am sure you can come to an arrangement and leave the thing with an off duty staff member for a few quid.

I too thought this was a wind up. I've owned dogs in the past and loved them, but the one thing you seem to have forgotten is that it is an animal not a child - and 8 hours of being looked after by someone else or being shut up in a kennel isn't going to kill it.

 

[Robin2]

It's very important to convey to a dog, at the very first moment of encounter, the knowledge that biting you will be very much more painful for the dog than for you.

 

[Guest]

Quite agree, although I can think of some boating uses for the aforementioned little shit-zu creature...mopping up diesel spills, an emergency fender, penalty shoot-out practice on the foredeck. Anyone got any other boating uses for a shit-zu?

 

[ari]

Boatshow wouldn't be a lot of fun for the dog, surely? Spending eight hours tucked in someone armpit being jossled by the crowds and karted around all day long. You gotta feel sorry for dogs treated this way...

What happened to exercising them, letting them run about, that kind of thing?

Ari.

 

[oldgit]

I got two blimming kids And I am fully prepared to stick them in the kennels for the day.Perhaps they will look after your doggie .......

Just lets say the best boat in the known universe starts with the letter P

 

[Guest]

Re: Little doggies.

Kev we leave our two little dogs in a kennel for a weekend when it is appropriate, in fact next week were
flying so there'll be in the kennel a week. Does'nt seem to bother them. I am sure on day would'nt
be two bad. Also I have to agree that the show would be no place to take our two small dogs
who are nervous anyway.

"The Med is calling me"