Golden retrievers might just be the "Amish" of the dog world.
Posted on 08/24/2022 9:05:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Last sentence - I wouldn’t suggest at all.
We had a wussy (yellow in multiple ways) TEMPORARY substitute mailman while the regular was on vacation. This man complained about the scary dog across from the (cluster-you know what) box.
It was noted on NextDoor and I couldn’t believe it - writing in defense of my neighbor’s Golden Retriever. I LOL on it. I understand one would be concerned seeing a large dog nearby, barking at you, apparently free - they have an electric fence (I personally will never have one). But the dog did not move from his yard, which is across the street.
It wouldn’t really be fair to stop mail to them just because a sub (or newbie?) thinks the dog might be a menace. When he isn’t. He’s a good guard/alerter but that is it.
I saw nothing until looking over all of mewzilla’s links.
I don’t doubt at least one would be a pit-bull terrier type. 2 I see definitely fit the bill and the 3rd looks it but honestly is not a good view.
I see.
What’s wrong with that?
Then, I'm sorry that I took it that way and responded the way I did.
And I am no lover of PBTs.
I am certainly guilty of making an assumption in that regard because I assumed you to be one of the numerous PBT apologists on FR. I have had a strong hatred of PBTs since the time I was cornered by two of them and avoided an attack due the quick thinking of a person who saw the incidence and distracted the dogs to allow me to get to safety. I love dogs but have never been comfortable around PBTs since then, even ones who are apparently friendly. I have no use for those who rescue PBTs and don't understand that they are playing with fire and due to their irresponsibility, put others at risk.
Golden retrievers might just be the "Amish" of the dog world.
Some dog shelters advertise “terriers Afro adoption”, but when you look at the detail it’s pit bull terrier. In the meantime I am thinking jack russell or rat terrier. There’s so, so many of them.
Not Afro …geez spellcheck it for…
—”And a lousy time for me to come out with Mail man flavored dog treats”
Best to stay with the mouse-flavored cat treats.
Maybe new and improved Fantasia mouse-flavored treats with catnip.
If I can’t bring a gun, I will have pepper spray. If I CAN bring a gun, a will have a gun and pepper spray.
I tell the dogs while they are running up that I don’t want to hurt them, but I will. Sometimes they get what I’m saying but a couple of times they just kept coming - both times it was pit bull dogs. I was sorry to have to spray them.
A rooster. Dang! I’ve gotten chased by geese before.
Cat-flavored Dog treats were on my mind.
Or housecat flavored coyote bait.
As a new guy in my rural neighborhood in TN (I’ve only owned and been developing the property for 7 years now), I own several large dogs and have a fenced-in yard (5 foot wire with electric ribbon/ground wire up a little higher) ready for the pack and one shepherd accompanies me whenever I go down and then as we walk around the property.
There are quite a few “strays” down there. Been some interesting incidents and close calls for us both.
I learned long ago on my grandfather’s farm the 3S method of solving “wildlife” problems. There’s not much of housepet or local wildlife a suppressed 308 Win round through an LTR won’t stop, and the snapping turtles in my pond have never eaten so well. Havahart traps and the pond itself serve to reduce the housecat problem (what the coyotes don’t eat, anyway) and a neighbor loves sitting up late at night with military-grade thermal scopes to cap the ‘yotes after several of his cats disappeared (yotes, not me, he’s a mile away).
The circle of life.
At a local BBQ/potluck I’ve attended several times over the years I’ve listened to those sociopaths/neighbors talk about losing their beloved family dogs. Typically they’ll say “he was such a good boy, always came back after roaming around” [killing chickens and other peoples’ pets], or, my favorite “Toby’d never hurt a fly”(similar to the urban American mom’s “mah baby dindu nuffin, he a choir boy”).
Yeah, until that ONE time I was stuck up on my garage roof because your rottie-pit tick-infested cur was growling and barking at me and MY dog who was still inside my truck with the windows slightly down scratching the heck out of my paint. Only AFTER he trotted off could I slide down the ladder, grab my suppressed carbine and put him down RFQ (like RFN but for southerners).
What a shame, I’d say, shaking my head, them none the wiser. The next year there were 3 from that place, then 5 sitting in the driveway just months ago. There’s no safety in numbers. I took out 2 more of them as they were sniffing around my house last month marking “their” territory and killing my rosebushes… and here I thought it was the deer digging through the deer netting to yank them outta the ground between trips.
Snares and bait work well too, I’ve learned. Quieter.
After living nearly 30 years in “suburban Maryland,” lord, it’s good to be back on the farm - 5 mos to full-time residency.
Let the games begin.
Correct. But there is no iconic image for that scene, unfortunately.
Yes - care is paramount, but four is less than five, three is less than four...
Whaling on a canine with a metal tube is better than pointing into the air.
All deskbound hindsight set aside, there’s not much more chaotic than a multiple animal attack - sincere condolences to all involved.
The mail shouldn’t be stopped for the neighbors. Only to the house where the dog is not secured. Every mail carrier I know has been bitten. They say, some dogs were very friendly - until that one day.
I never knew how serious the problem was, until a family member was attacked. Those dogs were medium-sized mutts, but bites are bites. He recovered quickly and returned to the same route, but he was lucky. Another guy at that P.O. was permanently disabled in a dog attack.
The way things work now, postal workers are bitten, and no one cares. Even when multiple dogs attack, usually no one hears about it, unless the injuries are serious or fatal. Mail carriers shouldn’t have to risk being bitten at all.
Watch as a pack of 100 Goldens Retrievers Surround people…ahhh the horror, the horror!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYhjf6krXCo
Just out of curiosity (which I realized killed the cat), how long have you been in Florida?
Horrible. RIP.
No, most people on here understand them perfectly well. PBTs were bred to fight. Most of the time, they're like any other dogs. Unfortunately, they have a fighting instinct that, once it is set off, it doesn't stop. That's why they can be so murderous.
Don’t get me going.
Some equate anti-PBT prejudice (breedism) with “racism”.
If the shoe fits, so what. Some of go by experience - both personal, and recorded history. We learn it from real experience, not from our parents. So be it.
I don’t like the idea of my son being at someone’s house who has these type dogs. I’ve told him that. Guns, I don’t care. They won’t jump up and shoot him themselves.
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