-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Allan Cobb >I would like to apologize to any dogs (or people) who were frightened > by the fireworks. The fireworks were not an event planned by TCR. > Had I known about them, they > would have been announced. Actually, had I known about them in advance, they > probably would have been discouraged.
I had for many years considered adding commercial type fireworks to the evening entertainment after the awards ceremony at TCR. Imagine being in the canyon at Flat Creek and having fireworks shot from the ledge above breaking over your head and resounding through the cliffs of the valley. But dought and fire bans and the general logistics of it all always precluded it happening. That there might be a few unstable dogs in the crowd never occurred to me. (I knew there were unstable cavers, but that's a different issue.) But the fact that dogs are and have been and hopefully always will be an integral and usually positive part of the TCR experience is something that should be kept in mind--that SOME dogs and fireworks don't mix. Because our good record of well behaved dogs at TCR and the sorry record of misapplied fireworks are in, at least, minor conflict with each other I would argue along with Allan that fireworks be discouraged in the future. While perhaps spectacular, the grief they cause can, in some cases, outweigh the elation. --Ediger --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
