Ditto, Don Mayfield wrote a article in one of the older dog magazines. On how to make up a soap and 100% grain alcohol mix. That would dissolve any type of rub that has been mixed with a silicone base material etc. Along with a proper rinsing method with milk.

Near the end when I left the dog game. It had become a joke on how Referee's were picked at the last moment. No one with a rule book on the Cajun rules. Nothing discussed on scratch time/out of holds etc., before any dog show pulling began. No instructions given to the group around the dog show ring on proper conduct. The handlers use to be given cover all's of correct size with no sleeves and all pockets sewed up. The pulling corners only had your opponents on each side to watch you and keep anything being handed into the show ring to you. Same for the other guy.

Some even stopped using two sponges and two water buckets. Only one bucket and sponge, with the dog up for the next weight pull getting the sponge. It literally over time broke down to a three ring circus act with too many thrill seekers. Was more hollering and hooping than at a College football game. Was why one night I had to stay all night in a damn swamp full of alligators. Nearly falling head long into a two story deep canal full of water. Was in a unknown swamp woodland and was so dark you could not see your face in front of your hand.

Right before the dawn, I made it to a hay field full of old wreaked cars and something glowing brightly. In the dark it all looked like Sled or a Swat team was camped out in tents. Had a Coleman stove burning and cooking something.

I crossed over a broken down fence and surrendered to I thought a Swat or Sled unit. Only to find out I had surrendered to a bunch of old wreaked cars and a night light shining off a old moon hub cap. LOL Funny now but not back then. That broke me of attending any multi weight pulling dog shows. Cheers