# Anyone watch Showdog Moms and Dads last night? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-showdog-moms-and-dads-last-night/297238 "2005-04-01T14:46:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-showdog-moms-and-dads-last-night/297238/1 "2005-04-01T14:46:31Z")
So last night I got home late, turned on the TV, and found (as usual) nothing good on. But there was a show on Bravo called “Showdog Moms and Dads.” _Oh yeah,_ I thought _that looked kinda interesting._ Initial impression: amusing, but did Bravo not seek out the most sterotypical dog-show types in existence? The stereotypical gay couple dressing their chihuahua and toy whatever-it-was in feather boas; the bratty 10-year-old and his pushy, overdemanding mother; the woman who doesn’t question whether she loves her husband or her weimaraner more because “there are some questions I don’t want to know the answer to.” The couple with the greyhounds seemed the most “normal,” but then I missed the beginning of the show and was trying to make dinner during the commercial breaks, so maybe I missed something. I’m disappointed that there wasn’t anyone who didn’t seem like a character from [“Best in Show.”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218839/) Or are all showdog people really this bad? What did other people think of the show? ---
**Author:** ![velveeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/13edae/32.png) [@velveeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velveeta)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-showdog-moms-and-dads-last-night/297238/2 "2005-04-01T15:05:56Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > Or are all showdog people really this bad? I didn’t see it, but short answer: YES! :eek: (I know that’s an awful wide brush I’m using, but it’s mostly true.) ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-showdog-moms-and-dads-last-night/297238/3 "2005-04-01T15:55:49Z")
> [@velveeta](#): > > I didn’t see it, but short answer: YES! :eek: > > (I know that’s an awful wide brush I’m using, but it’s mostly true.) Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-showdog-moms-and-dads-last-night/297238/4 "2005-04-01T16:03:03Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > Or are all showdog people really this bad? As someone who shows dogs… Absolutely not. There are plenty of people involved with dog shows who aren’t completely obsessed dogs. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-showdog-moms-and-dads-last-night/297238/5 "2005-04-01T16:46:04Z")
> [@velveeta](#): > > (I know that’s an awful wide brush I’m using, but it’s mostly true.) Speaking of brushes… I loved the scene where the mom was brushing her dog, then stopped to talk to the camera while using the same brush now on her own hair. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-showdog-moms-and-dads-last-night/297238/6 "2005-04-07T20:16:35Z")
Anybody watch last night’s episode? More trainwrecky goodness. I’m still waiting for a likeable owner to emerge from all of this. A couple things: 1)I can’t believe that Chalcy and the dog’s owner get paid $500.00 to entertain a party. The owner almost seems ready to explode from excitement whenever she’s talking too. 2)The whippet owners. The man’s personality just _really_ grates on me. I’m not sure why, maybe it’s that he seems really cocky. 3)Speaking of cocky, I couldn’t stop snickering about the dog that seemed to attack genatalia. I know, immature, but the woman talking about how her dog tries to bite her vagina was a bit too much. 4)The gay couple’s argument in the car about money. Talk about a whole lot of cluelessness compacted into a car. Just pay the mom back and she’ll stop asking for the money. Renegging on an agreement might have the person a little more concerned about getting their money back. If money ain’t such a big deal to you, maybe you shouldn’t borrow for it from other people. :mad: 5)The mom and the kid. I wonder if she’s going to watch this show sometime and realize that her kid is #2 in line after the dogs. It was sooo obvious he was desperate for attention when he was looking for his tooth. ---
**Author:** ![Selkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-watch-showdog-moms-and-dads-last-night/297238/7 "2005-04-08T01:17:01Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > As someone who shows dogs… > > Absolutely not. There are plenty of people involved with dog shows who aren’t completely obsessed dogs. As someone who used to show dogs, both bench and field, amen. I can’t watch the show for more than about ten minutes at a time, and the whole time I wonder where on earth they dredge these people up from. Yes, there’s a small percentage of whackos amongst the dog show crowd - and the 98% that remain are the first to make fun of that 2% - but I’ve never encountered anyone as strange or ill as the people on that show.