Catching up

Well its not 95 now, it will be a high of 36 all week.
I am trying to update our dog pages. I am working on my RN degree and my oil portfolio for upcoming art shows so my websites have fallen behind!
It seems as the economy fell and its trying to stabilize, things like dogs shows and other luxury hobbies ...i.e. hobbies that are an expenditure more than anything are hit hard also. I havent shown as much as I'd like as with hardly any majors in an 8 hour driving range, when I have to choose between a show for single points with just a few dogs showing up or an art show with up to 5000 attendees it is the latter.
Our biggest dog show was the August Bluegrass cluster and for well over a decade we attended when entries were bigger and we had some nice wins there, and now its 4 or 5 dogs in our breed, but now thats the same weekend as Dragoncon with 36,000 attendees over 4 days.
Maybe things will pick up and people will start showing again. We will continue to build our program so when the time is right & we can travel more once we obtained our degrees. I worked as a restoration ceramist in a dental lab for over a decade but again, thats in cosmetic dentistry and the specialized fields took a hit also. People still get crowns and caps, but my specialty was veneers and bonding.
I always loved art and ironically things have come full circle and I do more now than ever!
And I say all this as the economy is making people do extra things to earn money, and we have had some real looney tunes try to lie and pressure us into selling them dogs or getting fake names and inquiries to "buy." People will straight up lie and then get angry when you send the money back and tell them why. I have had it thrown in my face that we didnt ask enough question or the right questions.
People are crazy out there as times get tighter, research your breeders as they will research you. But make your own opinions, sometimes some breeders are just running off the competition by rumors. Visit the breeder and see how the dogs live. Do you want a dog that will be a wildchild a he was raised in a kennel? No, but neither do you want a couch potato who would rather be a doormat...literally. A breeder will never mind you wanting to come by to visit.