I love my dogs.
All of them.
You are nuts.
Still can’t resist insults, can you?
I am sensible.
I respect The Dog. As an animal.
I love my own dogs - the ones that were good, which were most for me personally, if not my family’s as a whole.
I am no fool that thinks every dog is wonderful. As if they are machines that are all the same. They most definitely are not. That is respect - understanding they can be very different even if there are tendencies, and treating them that way, understanding how they should be approached, treating them as adults than children, if you will.
Same applies to any pet. But the truth is dogs are capable of killing, meant for it for their sustenance. So are much-maligned cats, but then find me a cat which has mauled a person to death (I personally had 1 cat from Hell, but she was just incapable of killing adults). Either way, you have to respect the Animal (with a capital A) more than love them. For any true love to exist, there must be Respect, anyway.
Horse people have alot more sense when it comes to horses than dog people have with dogs. Amazing.
I have a pack of seven dogs; love them to death and they love me. But I also respect the hell of their power to kill.
We live in a very remote area and I have seen them take down full grown, well antlered buck deer as a pack.
When hunting they have no fear, and their attacks are well coordinated on every thing up to and including bear.
Like I said I love them and I think they love me, but if it came to starvation I also think they would probably eat me.