The classic:
But perhaps you prefer something more utilitarian:
Posted on 06/21/2013 7:03:06 PM PDT by Altariel
We agree on this.
Wrong. Read the post again.
“Rare”?
We both know the truth of that.
I have the unenviable position of having tried to nail an abusive/illegally acting cop.
They will enfold and protect their own like a bear with cubs.
Virtually no one will receive anything resembling “justice” once their rights have been violated.
I wish the dog’s owner luck...she’s gonna need a lot of it.
Then we'll just have to disagree about what is reasonable. If there's nobody home, I don't consider that reasonable. Both as a military police officer, and as a volunteer at an animal shelter, I've seen too many dogs tied up and left in a yard who either wrap the tether around a tree or get it tangled on something and can't get to their water on a hot day, kick their waterbowl over and spend the day without, hang themselves over a low fence, get mauled by a stray dog or pack thereof, get abused by passers by (with or without badges), or eventually contract heartworms from being a veritable cafeteria for mosquitoes. etc.
If you have to leave your dog tied up outside while you go to work all day, you either don't have enough respect for the animal, have too big a dog for your residence, or haven't invested the time and discipline in training the animal that a responsible pet owner should. A fenced outdoor run with shelter and water is entirely different, ut tying or chaining them to a tree, a post, an anchor, etc. and leaving for the day is simply irresponsible.
The IRS/NSA probably heard the dog “barking in code” late one night and painted him a target.
Of course it doesn’t justify those disgusting actions, and that’s not what the comment meant. It meant that it is inadvisable to leave your dog tied up outside while you’re away, because anything can happen to him. As in something bad.
Yup.
I wouldn’t waste a dime on the best e-fence ever made.
I like good strong wire and tall sturdy wood...with locked gates.
[having to defeat the locks gives me plenty of time to chamber a round and get the dogs behind me]
She has -never- said any such ridiculous thing.
Either be serious or burn your straw man.
Nobody likes ludicrous hyperbole.
There seems to be a new crop now to take up the torch nightstick.
“who want their dogs outside all the time.”
Dogs are not made to be outside all the time.
If a person can’t bother to take care of it like it deserves, they shouldn’t have it.
I don’t tie my dogs up.
When I was young, my dad made a ‘trolley line’ in the back yard for my dog to enjoy while I was in school on nice weather days.
However, he was a hundred pound Dobe.
Nobody/nothing ever ‘bothered’ him...more than once.
When I lived under parental rules, I couldn’t have all my dogs inside 24/7.
I left home as soon as I was 18.
My dogs have all been sofa hounds ever since then.
I agree. I am not an advocate of tying up a dog.
I can’t remember the exact words, but I read once that a tied dog just wishes for freedom, and will run at the opportunity, but a free dog just wishes to be home.
The classic:
But perhaps you prefer something more utilitarian:
One or two? Really? Where the heck have you been?This crap goes on all the time and its not the same one or two officers.The cops do themselves no favors doing stupid shit like this.
Lots of people tie out or kennel dogs when they can’t personally supervise them, are at work or whatever- it is a responsible thing to do so the dog doesn’t get in trouble; which normally works fine. Of course some people kennel or tie and neglect a dog but there is always a certain number of irresponsible people, those kind of people would neglect dogs no matter how they kept them.
We don’t know what kind of pet owner this lady is but I don’t agree that tying one out or kenneling one is a bad thing- depends on how it is done. I imagine if the dog had the run of the entire back yard the officer would likely have shot it so don’t see how her tying her dog up was part of this at all.
Tied up dogs become aggressive because of being paradoxically terrified all the time.
They’re not stupid; they *know* they’re helpless targets for any manner of threat to their life.
They know they’re trapped.
All animals operate on ‘flight or fight’.
When you remove the “flight” choice with chain, only “fight” is left...so they do.
That has happened. Polly Klass, that Jaygard girl.
I said, and I quote:
Would be like condemning the entire military for the acts of a few idiots.
Notice I used the word like as in comparison, never said Altariel ever made that statement.
“To condemn an entire group of people for the acts of a few is just beyond comprehension.
I guess somewhere in your past a cop pissed in you cereal and thus the vendetta.”
Go back and reread what I wrote.
When you are interested in responding in an intellectually honest manner befitting a conservative and a Freeper, perhaps you will reply once more.
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