Posted on 06/21/2013 7:03:06 PM PDT by Altariel
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No legal reason.
Honest men and women go to the front door of a residence, to approach a residence legally if they have business there.
Men and women with dishonest motives enter backyards without the homeowner’s permission or leave.
“Woman, I said “where’s my sandwich?”
“Where is it? Where? Where? Where?”
-—Odhinn
:)
I wish it were something that chauvinistic...it’s not.
“Where’s my mommy? Where is she? Where? Where? Where?!?!”
/aaaaaaaaaahhhhooooooooooooooooooeeeee!
Time to turn the beasts out, back in and drop off to sleep.
Long day.
Long tomorrow.
Night y’all.
:)
Nite to you and your pack. Hubby included.
:)
“So, what you are saying is that all cops are a$$holes and we should do away with the concept of a police force.”
No, you are creating a straw dog by using hyperbole. What needs to happen is to train cops not to kill a citizen’s pet just because they can. There has to be a balanced approach for cops to deal with dogs that they are afraid of. First, they need to learn not to be afraid of every dog they are around or that growls at them. Then they should use reasonable force if they they are actually approached by a dog. Cops should be taught that they are not justified in killing every dog that comes close to them.
My dogs are in my home with me, I have a kennel outside and a place to tie up a dog if need be. I use each option depending on what is going on. I don’t as a rule tie up a dog- but have been known to temporarily do so. Difference is I don’t think it is my business how others care for their dog unless I know it is being abused. As to far fetched ideas of dogs burning up in houses I have actually known it to happen twice. One of our friends had a little dog in the house and a big dog tied up outside when their house burned to the ground. They tried to get the little dog out of the house but it hid under the bed and burned up. Another time the dog burned up in the house while the owner was at work. It is not far fetched to say a dog may not be perfectly safe inside the home.
I never said it was my business. I said it was my opinion. And if you do a little online research about this incident, you'll find she was returning home from work when she found the business card; presumably the dog was tied up outside all day.
"As to far fetched ideas of dogs burning up in houses I have actually known it to happen twice."
And I can't begin to count the number of times I'm personally aware of where some ill has befallen a dog that was left tied and unsupervised. I'd bet if you ask around the employees and volunteers at your local shelters and animal rescue organizations, they'll know of far more dogs that have been killed or suffered great harm while tied up outside than have been killed in housefires of floods because they couldn't get out of a house.
I never said a dog would be "perfectly safe" in a house. Just that all things being equal, the dog will be safer inside. It seems to me that a responsible dog owner would want the safer of the two options. Maye you can think of a reason a responsible dog owner would want his dog in the more perilous situation. I can't.
You never keep dogs, horses or children inside. Safety first! Plain buildings, with adequate cover, water and feed- is all they need. Maybe some hay & blankies, around winter.
During Katrina, the dogs left in houses generally made it to top floors and survived.
None of the dogs on chains could beat the flood waters.
To this day, the memory of those images horrify me.
I cannot imagine the terror they felt.
[then again, when I leave the house, I can monitor my dogs via network cams on my iPhone..yeah, I’m that crazy]
“You never keep dogs, horses or children inside”
Well...that explains my childhood.
I just thought my parents were weird.
Yup. The fancy folks and their kin, were the weirdos. Dang.
Invisible fences do not always work. I’ve known two dogs (a Boxer and a Pit mix) who, if they wanted out badly enough, would simply charge through and take the hit. Another (a Border Collie, natch) would get close enough to the “fence” to get the collar to continuously beep but not actually deliver a shock. After the battery ran down (and the beeping stopped), she would simply walk through the “fence.”
Carteret County and Beaufort (we pronounce it correctly, btw, BOW-fert) are coastal and thus overrun with Jersey, NoVa and DC people. You have to get to the rural areas on the coastal plain to feel all that southern anymore, much like Florida.
Smartie.
It screws up a formerly nice place so bad people have to leave. But instead of the disease dying then and there, unfortunately, take the disease with them to their new home, eventually screwing it up too.
Marx didn't invent evil. He just gave it a very effective tool set for building a bigger, badder Beast.
You say it is only your opinion; but I wonder if you would support a law against tying dogs up...that is why we have so many laws. It is wrong to abuse dogs or any other animal, after that it is up to the owner how to keep their dog. I am tired of well meaning people thinking they have the answer for everyone else. You said you didn’t tell anyone what to do but you zeroed in on the dog being tied up and it really isn’t any of your business. I know bad things happen to many dogs that are tied up, also to dogs that are kenneled and even in the house. It is called responsibility and some people just don’t have it.
You assume this lady ties her dog up 24/7 and neglects it. I look at the dog and it looks well cared for, too slick and shiny to be missing shelter, be too hot, no water, etc. In other words I don’t see a problem with her dog so I don’t care how she keeps him. You have no way of knowing if the lady works part-time or anything else about her and jumped to conclusion after conclusion about how she cares for her dog. The only thing I noticed about her dog is it seems a tad overweight...likely from people food but that is not my business and I notice you didn’t comment on that part of how she cares for her dog, though obesity is a problem for dogs too.
It’s not entirely different.
The fence may present fewer problems to that dog, but he’s still open to abuse, AND can also get loose and cause havoc. Fences rot and break, some dogs can’t wait for an opening, and destroy it, etc.
No dog should ever be left outside unsupervised. I understand if there are extenuating circumstances, but as a habit they should never be left outside with none of their people around.
I noticed a Taser dart in his back and a wounded eyeball. I guess you missed those. I'll bet you the dog wouldn't have had suffered either of those if the dog had been kept in the house while she was at work.
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