Posted on 06/21/2018 8:55:16 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Edited on 06/21/2018 9:06:43 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Cats kill all kinds of things way beyond the rodent spectrum
Given the amount of dogs in this country this will happen and it is statistically one of the lowest causes of death. I would bet that if we controlled the dog kills humane statistics, for dogs owned by (insert your favorite class of violent and/or stupid people) and who encourage the same in their dog, the deaths would be near zero. This is similar to SIDS. It sadly happens but almost always with a back story.
I agree completely. The only difference between a large dog and a small one is that the big one can hurt them by accident quite easily.
This is our 2nd Lhasa dog. The first one lived 14 years and this 2nd one is already 14 and going strong.
Both dogs were great watch dogs since their hearing is very keen due to excessive hair covering their eyes, I suppose.
Both dogs have never attacked any visitors, and will actually sit on laps of visitors after about 5 minutes time lapse when the dogs had a chance to assess the visitors.
All dogs are a product of their environment and how they were treated. If dogs have suffered mal-treatment during their life, they will become nasty. If dogs are treated with love and kindness throughout their life, they will return the favor. After 28 years with these dogs of ours, it is easy to conclude that simple fact.
Lastly, a 10 pound dog is unlikely to be able to cause any serious damage to anyone weighing over 20 lbs.
That is correct. Do not trust any dog with any kid weighing less than double the weight of the dog at a minimum. After all dogs are animals, and their genes go back millions of years in the wild, and only about 15,000 years of domestication.
I love dogs, but this type of creature is no dog, it is a Beast.
The dog should be executed along with its owner
The Difference with a German Shepard is that it usually very apparent when you have a bad one like this. They are usually consistent in how they behave.
Wow, you guys are ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Most dogs are wonderful and harmless, never hurting a soul over their entire lefestime. They are family and never bother anyone (except perhaps the mailman, but just noise). A few, especially a few particular breeds, are predictably bad news. But implying that because of them that dogs in general are dangerous weapons waiting for a trigger to go off seems over the top to me.
I thought it said a GS, to Pitt Bull mix.
My bad.
No more than I do my friend.
Having had dogs my entire life I believe they sense if someone is not a “dog person” IOW not fond of the creatures and perhaps a bit uncomfortable around them.
They will pick up on that (scent) and can become either fearful or turn aggressive. Aggression and fear are two sides of the same coin in dogs and some people as well.
Even if correctly spelled “aide,” it doesn’t work very well.
Unfortunately, what you wrote is indeed very true. In the past twelve months, we've seen this attack on engineering and now medicine.
We had 5 Dobermans over a 20 year period. Usually 2 at a time. The last one we had, developed Idiopathic Aggression over a 6 month period. This is a form of aggression that is suspected to be a brain problem akin to epilepsy.It is never a treatable form of aggression. The dog loses all control and doesn’t even recognize his owner, snarls, gets dead eyes, and then within seconds, when the dog “snaps out of it” wants to be your buddy again.
We had to put him down last July. I figured out what was wrong with our dog in time to euthanize him before he bit our other dog or one of us. When you research this problem online you would not believe the idiots who LET a dog bite many times and still agonize about putting their dog down. Once I figured it out, I made the only decision that was right and followed through.
I had never heard of Idiopathic Aggression before I dealt with it.
Apparently it is more well known in the cocker spaniel breed and is then called “Cocker Rage” and stemmed from a show winner who later developed Idiopathic Aggression, after he’d spread his DNA all over America.
Idiopathic Aggression appears during age 1-3. Our dog went from sweet to being CUJO for a minute, over a period of about 6 months. The last night we had him, I didn’t sleep. I was glad to give him the pre-euthanasia drugs at home (he needed to be pre-sedated because of this dangerous condition), and get him to the vet and get it done.
There are about 8 breeds of dogs that get this condition more than others. Dobermans were not at the top of the list.
Poodles, especially male poodles, are extremely aggressive dogs.
My cousin had one that was super aggressive and would snap at everybody except her. I hate those dogs!
I’d be curious about the history of the pooch. If I was a babysitter, seeing many people who were strangers to me, I wouldn’t want to bring along any dog. One wrong cue by the dog, and the situation could turn quite ugly. A dog that had known the baby from birth as part of family would be less likely to be dangerous. Dogs are loyal creatures rather than moral ones, and may do things that to humans are quite stupid, like think that a baby is a hazard to the babysitter and needs to be eliminated.
I’ve had three serious attacks on my dogs, two by German Shepherds and one by a Pit. In both German Shepherd instances, I was able to intervene by voice command and kicking the attacker away, to which it responded (one was loose, the other dragged its owner, a small woman, along with it).
The Pit attack was direct and brutal, and the only way to stop it was to make it hurt back (it latched onto one of my dogs, and I went after its eyeballs, upon which it released).
Yes, German Shepherds (and Dobermans, although I don’t know personally) can be dangerous, but they can be defeated. When attacking, Pit Bulls are a menace.
In all of these cases (and also with less-dangerous dogs whose owners have let them off lead and have run after me and mine), the owners should not have these dogs.
Interesting. Never heard of that.
“Apparently being a pit bull hater...”
Guilty as charged. I’ve no use for those creatures whatsoever.
I gave this story to you on June 15th.
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