Posted on 08/28/2010 7:42:34 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma
Did you know.......3.)
Approximately 150 people are killed every year by falling coconuts. Therefore, you are more than 60 TIMES MORE LIKELY to be killed by a PALM TREE than a Pit Bull.
Sal, you’re going to have to start paying the rent for living in Minn’s head.
>Why do people think they need tough dogs? What are they compensating for? Why not get a good, perfectly harmless dog instead?<
Some folks need a big dog to act as a deterrent to those with bad intentions, be they 2 footed or 4 footed. They are compensating for not having the dog’s far better sense of smell and more acute hearing and its protective nature for instance. My shepherds are a huge comfort to my daughter and to me. They also discourage predators like raccoons and coyotes.
Why do you care if others desire a dog with more ability to deter than your little spaniel? A large dog can give you time to get to a firearm if you are threatened, and will, in most cases, make an intruder think twice before invading your home.
My shepherds are perfectly willing to leave you in peace if you are welcomed into my home. They are never allowed to roam and have passed temperament and obedience tests.
‘Promise I’ll see you there. I’ll just stand there with my hands in my pockets and let you swing away until you get it out of your system. Can’t hit a girl, right? “
I’m not a “girl”, I’m a “butch”, remember?
Consider me fair game.
Your battleship mouth got your rowboat ass in dutch and now you want to pretend it was all in jest.
Candy ass coward.
[and I stand by *that*, Mindy]
Somebody takes you up on your “Mr Bad Ass” threats and you want to talk it to death and/or wait for *them* to appear Minnesota, knowing that the odds of that are nil.
Before your keyboard writes a check your ass can’t cash again, perhaps you should ponder your choice of words [or “helpless victim”] more wisely.
If you couldn’t weasel of out this one, you may do even -worse- the next time, Mr Kinsley.
*You* bought this, little man.
You -own- it.
“but I’m an honorary Texan, a wanna be Texan, and a Texan at heart.”
Aren’t we all?
*sigh*
[it’s that Gunner guy’s fault, you know]
‘Some folks need a big dog to act as a deterrent to those with bad intentions, be they 2 footed or 4 footed.”
You mean like men who’d like to meet some woman offline and beat her up?
I can see that, sure....LOL
Why would I pay money to live in a decrepit match box?
Yep!
Yeah. *sigh...* gunner’s a oner.
LOL! Well, you ARE stuck in there, you know.
Yep!
Seconded and carried!
The ayes have it! PASSED!
Like a song he can’t stop singing.
[although I’m sure I’m competing with a lot of “other voices”]
‘Night Sal.
To be fair, *Varda” should have ~some~ say in their destiny, too, you know...:)
‘Night, dear friend.
Sweet dreams.
*sigh*
Rules, rules, rules.
VARDA GET OVER HERE!!!!!!!!!! Now! ASAP! We’re talkin’ ‘bout you!
Whoever owns that Chi should be ashamed.
My aunt had a little Chi who loved me but bit my mom every time she passed by her.
[my aunt, who absolutely adored and spoiled the dog always carried it like a baby on her shoulder]
The dog tried to pull the “I’m bad!” crap on me once and within 5 minutes we were best buds.
Sadly, I’m often the one relatives call when their “problem child” dog needs its nails clipped.
They’re too afraid to do it.
Varda may have had the good sense to abandon this thread as fast as possible.
:)
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