Posted on 01/02/2015 10:11:35 AM PST by Bratch
Sarah Palin has sparked outrage by posting pictures on Facebook of her son standing on her dog.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Obviously the dog did and it was the dog’s exclusive call in the matter.
"Rachele Ann This is extremely dangerous behavior to be promoting. Not only a huge bite risk to innocent children, but a dog is not built to be stood on like a draft horse. Very sad to see this here."
Christina McClure "All you people saying the dog would move: I am a dog trainer. This is why I get people coming to me saying "My dog bit out of the blue!" No, your dog finally stopped tolerating it!"
Lee Comport "So your little human stands on me and all you do is take a photo, I need a new best friend!"
Liam Wader "It's not judging it's being informative. Dogs are not objects to be stepped and used at your free will. This dog is clearly not okay with it. I can tell, I know dogs. This is ignorant and perpetuating it. Dogs will absolutely deal with a whole lot for their human. This behavior they will not tolerate forever. They know what is happening is not right. You don't step on living things to get to something. It's absurd and asinine."
Just a sampling of comments at the link. Some oppose it; some defend or support it.
They are tough dogs. Too tough for me. I’m surprised I don’t have terrible pain from the pulling on the lease that my dog gave me.
Ahh, so if someone takes a picture of a behavior, that makes the behavior acceptable?
His post that you quoted looks like a conservative who has sincere concerns about her to me.
But you’re saying he’s really some sort of liberal operative posing as a conservative on FR?
Yep, I’m sure that she teaches her kids to stand on the dog, good grief. It happened to be something that he did. She was probably amused, that given his limitations, he worked out a solution to get to the sink. He was no doubt, removed after somebody snapped a pic. Please prove to us that she praised him for standing on the dog.That you think that he, a Down’s kid should be beaten for doing so, tells me all I need to know about you.
Take your concerns elsewhere, I’m not interested in your efforts and side discussion.
Thanks for sharing, dforest. I think that your story is very relevant to this incident.
It may be that some who are reading this thread have forgotten that Trig has some challenges that he and his parents must address throughout his life. Trig will not always be a little, cute boy. Eventually he will probably be about the size of his father, and without the proper teaching he could have some serious problems coping with society, its limits and structure.
It is hard to have done any worse than Mitt.
Someone should do a compilation of all the photos of kids standing on dogs, at this link.
https://www.facebook.com/ellentv/photos/a.182755292239.124686.26012002239/10152602026212240/?type=1
It’s a service dog, dimwit.
Like I said, Ansel12... You make empty accusations yet offer nothing in the way of evidence. You’ve played the drama queen bit to exhaustion. Again... man up and show us.. where’s the proof?
The dog is Trig’s service dog.
I’m sure that the dog, Trig, and the warm and loving, and incredibly competent Palin family, will all survive this moment that was captured on film, and that has passed.
https://www.facebook.com/ellentv/photos/a.182755292239.124686.26012002239/10152602026212240/?type=1
For goodness sakes then don’t show the pics to your dogs. Trig is precious and so is the puppy. I have had several large black dogs and they all knew how to get out of the way, not a one was masochistic. Do you and yours also have Palin Derangement Syndrome?
Oh, my bad. Certainly don’t want to distract from your important work of annoying people with troll accusations.
Carry on.
What are you talking about?
What are you talking about? you are the one saying that she is praising and encouraging him. I want you to prove it. Or do you suppose that he is reading her FB page?
Please, find a leftie site and bore them to death. Congrats on your PDS.
Indeed. Hopefully the parents have already taken the step of teaching him why that behavior is not okay and will continue to enforce it.
Unfortunately, children with special needs don’t always process that sometimes social situations require them to not engage in particular behaviors.
For instance, a father and his six year old son may have a ritual in which the boy tackles his father the moment he comes home from work.
Most six year old boys understand that it is not acceptable to give their 90-year-old great-grandmother the same greeting.
A mentally challenged six year old boy may not be able to process the difference; for some children, it’s either “always acceptable” or “never acceptable”, and they never develop the mental maturity to process “situationally acceptable”.
Regrettably in dforest’s case, the parents and the men in that boy’s life didn’t teach the boy better (at that time). Perhaps it did not occur to them, prior to that incident, that the boy did not comprehend situational acceptability. Perhaps they thought his antics humorous enough to downplay the risks.
Still a good lesson to learn from.
You wrote: "Thats funny, since there are pics all over the place of kids standing on and riding the family dog."
Does the existence of a photo of a given behavior render the behavior acceptable?
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