Yeah, that beagle is a little terrorist, he had it coming!
Posted on 09/04/2023 8:06:15 AM PDT by allen592
Dogs are often considered man's best friend, but not everyone shares this sentiment. In a world filled with dog lovers, there exists a significant population of people who harbor a deep dislike or even hatred for these furry companions.
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Nice try; not a one of those comments gave the owners a pass.
Cats will scratch or bite you only in self-defense. Dogs will attack and kill just because.....
“Humanity struck a deal with canines >30K years ago.”
The best deal we ever made; a great bargain for us.
Incorrect.
There never was any such time.
The true statement is that a dog who chased and killed chickens was put down.
That's why they're called house pets instead of barn cats,
or kept chained to a stake in the yard with a
tarpaper "dog house" to shelter in.
Sorry, that connection just popped into my head.
If everyone had a Shih Tzu like me everyone would love dogs
No I don’t control him he does whatever he wants and that’s fine
He is housebroken of course
No. I live a suburban area of Houston. A working class neighborhood.
Yeah, that beagle is a little terrorist, he had it coming!
Momma's dog. Everyone else had to wear chainmail gloves around him.
As a paper boy there was a Great Dane on my route that would bark and bark at me - meanly. The owner said the previous paper boy tormented the dog. We thought if the dog saw me talking to the owner and then the owner and I walking over the dog could get to know me.
I slowly held out my hand in a fist so the dog could smell me. It seemed like slow motion, but I’m sure it wasn’t, the dog had my entire fist in his mouth!
The owner called him off. I recall scratches but I don’t recall if it bled or not - I don’t think so, at least not much as I just kept on my route with the owner apologizing.
That said, I still like dogs. It really is an owner problem in most cases.
I was charged by an 80 pound pitbull and three smaller 40 pound or so dogs at one time. If I hadn’t known how to stand my ground and been aided by a passing motorist they would have mauled me. I called animal control after the incident.
So take Your snark and go pound sand.
‘Not really”
“wuss”
“Nope”
“What did you do to piss off the dog?”
All that’s missing is blaming the pretty girl for getting raped.
Sometimes.
There were people who knew how to break them of the habit and did.
It always is a matter of training and what the owner will put up with.
Lily the Dog finds the chickens interesting to watch but is death on ground hogs and bunnies.
If you don't know the difference between tracking and traveling, then you don't know anything about dogs.
I get the puppie socialization thing, but puppies and adult dogs can also learn socialization with people, depending on how they are treated. I love dogs in general more than most humans.
“All that’s missing is blaming the pretty girl for getting raped.”
Sensationalism, much?
The post that you are defending (Post #3) is a blanket condemnation of dogs and their owners: “That a good enough reason to dislike dogs and to have a healthy disdain for their owners?” Dogs (in general) and their owners (in general).
Had she been talking about that one incident, where she claims she was bitten, she would have said “…dislike THAT dog,” and “…dislike ITS owner.” But, she didn’t; she held in contempt (disdain) the entire species and those who owned them.
The posters you are sanctioning are not giving a pass to irresponsible dog owners; rather, they are calling out the original poster for her blanket condemnation of dogs in general and their owners in general.
We can’t divine what she MEANT to say, or what her INTENT was; we must necessarily rely on WHAT she said.
There’s a lot to untangle between hard-wiring and learned behavior. My pit hated porcupines, after his first very minor dealings with one. After that, it was on like Donkey Kong. We spent a lot of time wandering in the woods, looking for antlers, or whatever. Sometimes I’d spot a porcupine and grab the dog and leash him up, then he’d spot it. He knew I didn’t want him fighting them, so thereafter, when he scented a porcupine, he’d side-eye me. That was my cue to get on him, fast. If he had time, he’d trail them out, grab them, and tear them to pieces, with predictable damage to himself. He was well socialized, but there was a conflict between doing what pleased me, and what he wanted to do.
Also, being in the pack makes one subject to pack rules. I had cats and a pitbull. One time the dog had a bone and a cat walked between it and a nearby wall. He got a growl and a fast headbutt. Knocked a couple of teeth out, but it was a fast skirmish, rather than an attack. A few years later, there was a cat that moved in under the house. The dog would chase it...not a pack member. One day, the door was open and the cat strolled in, jumped up on the coffee table, turned its back on us, and sat down. The dog looked at the cat, looked at me, looked back at the cat, looked at me with a “Please. just say the word” look. I said “Let it go” He was bummed, but we had a new cat She was, of course, pregnant.
My Mother's family were Dust Bowl Sooners who made their own Grapes of Wrath, ended up in Wyoming and my Father's family were sharecroppers who also went west, ended up in Arizona, before eventually coming back to Alabama where our pre-Sooner ancestors had started from.
I suppose because of that sort of upbringing I learned a different take on the situation.
It was a park. For dogs, it was take ten steps, stop to analyze the smells on the pissing spot, and move on to the next one at a leisurely pace. My brother wanted to get to point B as quickly as possible. Utterly incompatible reasons for “walking.” You’re not walking a dog so much as you are hanging on to the leash while he does what he pleases.
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