Posted on 03/21/2019 12:36:50 PM PDT by wardaddy
I don’t know what went wrong here but we’re not talking about pit bulls.
GSDs are working dogs and they were bred for loyalty and obedience.
They’re not naturally aggressive.
I think the author of the article doesn’t know the difference from “loose” animals and “feral” animals. Feral usually means turned wild, live in the wild, and no longer considered domesticated or owned.
If they were owned and had a home they returned to on their own they were just loose dogs.
The owner is criminally liable for taking a human life and for not restraining his animals.
A responsible pet owner ensures his dogs aren’t a threat to others. The dogs will have to be destroyed because they took a human life and they can never be trusted again.
A sad story all around.
All bets are off in a pack, and there are indeed German Shepherds with considerable aggression issues.
I’ve met them, they exist.
But in a pack, none of the dogs need to have aggression issues in order for the pack to be dangerous.
An attack can be triggered by so many things, even the simple appearance of a weak target.
It is my opinion, based upon experience, that within a pack, a dog loses some percentage of their individual personality and becomes part of the pack, and is then driven by pack rules, which are of the utmost important to canines. If the alpha attacks a target, all dogs in that pack will attack.
GSDs aren’t feral dogs. Given the GSD mentality, this is very unusual.
This is the kind of dog that will protect humans to their last breath. Their devotion to their owners is the stuff of legend.
I love the breed for that reason.
“Feral could mean free range which is common in rural areas.”
Utter bullcrap!! Born and raised on farm in MN. For miles around, us farmers knew that if any of our dogs were caught in the open “packing” they would, not COULD, but WOULD, be shot on sight!! You WOULD be shooting your own dog. Once they pack and harass animals, wild OR farm, they are no good.
And I don’t know who else has noticed this, But when dogs pack up they have a tendency to have an natural instinct to go after aged or physically impaired prey just like they would in the wild. I have seen the friendliest of dogs all of a sudden become aggressive towards a human who cannot walk normal because of an impairment. I think it is a primal instinct they will always retain as once wild animals. It is a natural hunting technique to go after injured or crippled prey first.
One more thing. The biggest problem involving feral dogs was the dam city ppl getting tired of Rover, and giving Rover a one-way trip to the country. In most cases, the poor dog came onto the farmer’s property out of starvation, sickness, and/or a place to rest or call home. The more resilient dogs eventually packed and had to be destroyed.
I have had my Petunia, a 1 year old white GSD, riding in my car in the passenger seat as we are sitting in line at a drive through bark aggressively at old man who walked by with a shuffle.
She didn’t like the way he walked. There was no other dog around.
So yep, this is a thing.
I agree... I have owned many myself. But never more than one or two at a time. All dogs have the ability to turn off domestication when running in a pack of three or more and start an aggressive feeding frenzy. I saw this with a neighbor’s dogs. He had eight Saint Bernards.
They were DANGEROUS as a pack together and would kill any other dog or a human in a heartbeat when they were out and the owner wasn’t looking. I finally had to dispatch these dogs because they kept trying to get in the yard and take my kids just like wolves would.
They had already ripped other dogs in the neighborhood to pieces as a frenzied pack many times. Animal control said we were too far out to come and do anything about these animals so I did. Saint Bernards are loyal and friendly dogs too.
Things change and they can go temporarily wild when they pack up.
"They started after me and I had to shoot them" would have been the right response.
Find him and hang him would be ok with me.
I was pondering what the writer may have thought using the term which a poster had noted to me
German Shepherds are not as a rule feral
I’m in rural TN
Most dogs roam
Mine don’t
They are Rotts I can’t take the risk
Yep, I have seen it many times. Just had a recent experience with my Dad’s 8 yr old dog he had from a puppy. They had a bond that could never be broken. Dad got very sick and ended up in the hospital for a couple weeks. When he got out he was still weak and was having trouble walking when we brought him home. The dog saw him and came running but as soon as she saw he was having problems walking normal she stopped in her tracks and got very defensive and aggressive towards him. His own dog... Primal instincts took over.
See 42
What happens in such cases is a dog is responding aggressively to something it is seeing that it cannot understand.
It’s where Alvin York was from
Pretty rural
Democrats should be in prison.
And the Fakenews ignores the problem.
A simple, easy to obtain, defense gun, would have spared that 88 year old woman. Pop, pop, dogs dead, and lady lives. Where is the call to ban gun control? Where are Trump's tweets to repeal gun control? Where are the news stories? Where are the Republicans? Gun control only protects bad people, repeal protects good people.
Democrats banned that gun.
Democrats hurt older women.
The sheer destruction, hate and hurt by Democrats, is shown daily.
GUN CONTROL KILLS
What did the owner do? In some places this sort of justified action led to a deadly feud.
Put em down..Mean dogs are useless & suck
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