Posted on 09/25/2013 3:34:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
bump that
We don’t have any either. The houses here are not close together, and our driveway is quite long, with the additional parking area (and easy ability to turn around) at least 30 or 40 yards from the front door. It’s nice.
Is Mike Vick their spokesman?
100%
That’s pretty much my situation as well. Love it.
I think Pit Bulls need to be placed on a ‘Pit Bull Ranch’ that is well cared for and securely gated, away from children!
Living in the middle of Nowhere, Ohio, helps a lot as well. We have had exactly zero trick or treaters come to this house.
It is a FACT that wannabe/real ‘satanists’ sacrifice dogs at Halloween and other pagan “holy days”.
A friend who I met through my own little Dobe Rescue worked at a PA shelter and she had the unpleasant task of going to the known gathering spots and cleaning up the “messes”.
All black dogs, especially “German breeds” are at highest risk and the local shelters simply will not adopt them out in the weeks leading up to Halloween.
Black cats, too.
It always grieves me when “lost black dog” flyers start going up in October.
They’re rarely found.
When I was a kid, I found the remains of a skinned, tortured dog along a back road near my house when I was riding my bike.
I don’t think I’ll ever get that image out of my brain.
The woman down the road from me always “lost dogs to hunters” in October...so she’d go to the shelter and adopt another black dog...every year.
One day she ‘admired’ my Dobermans.
I put a padlock on their kennel whenever I was not there to watch over them, from then on.
Well said.
I run into people who have no dog experience, let alone ‘high drive’ dogs who went out and bought themselves a Dobe.
I try to help [avert any disasters] by giving advice on what to expect and how to handle but I doubt much of the advice is taken.
Halloween is not a good holiday for pets. Many shelters will curtail or suspend adoptions for a period prior to that date out of fear that those animals might be used in satanic rituals. Whether it’s pit bull hunting or witchcraft, it’s probably a good idea to keep your pets close.
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Okay, the woman who admired your dog....that is hairy.
I’ve always heard black cats are at risk on Halloween, but I didn’t know about the dogs. I don’t think I would ever get over your experience at the side of the road. It would haunt me.
Poor, innocent little animals just taken and used for sick pleasure by evil bastards.
There is [or was] a thing about sacrificing dogs who have “eyebrows” and all her dogs were Shepherd mixes with “eyebrows”.
When she saw my dogs with their really obvious ‘eyebrows’, she was really nosy about the breed.
My dad kept our horses at her farm sometimes and I had to go there and collect one to ride but I never took the Dobes down there again.
The poor thing on the road was probably the worst thing I’ve ever seen.
I was around 14 or 15 and I screamed like a girl and cried for hours.
My dad went out to take it off the road and then tried to tell me it was a ‘skinned fox’.
My ass.
It was a medium dog.
I ~know~ what a dog looks like, even when it’s skinless.
I could literally sit down and make you an exact drawing of it, with its position on the road, how all the trees looked and everything.
It’s kind of burned into my brain.
Shoot, I would probably react now the way you did then.
I had a momentary curiosity to google occult practices/dogs with eyebrows, but I’m not going there.....I’ll regret it if I do.
That was the way it was said to me.
If I had to guess, I would speculate they meant German/black & tan breeds who all have “eyebrows” but lacked the intellect to name them.
So, to try and lighten this morose thread, here are these
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/what-would-dogs-look-like-with-eyebrows
http://www.reddit.com/r/dogswitheyebrows
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