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Old 06-15-2003, 07:49 AM   #9 (permalink)
bullgoose
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Location: Central N.Y.
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Originally posted by mtsgsd
small rant here.
When are people going to realize that it's not the fucking dog, or the fucking gun, knive etc. It's what these assholes do with them. The dogs are that way because the owners want them to be that way. Pit's are in style, so that's what gets the rep. If another dog gets fashionable, you'll be saying the same thing about them after a while. These are not "attack dogs" btw. That's just more urban mythology that we get stuck with by a media thats loves sensational headlines.

Wake up people. There is no such thing as a dog that's pre-programmed to attack everything in sight. No pre-programmed blood lust genecticaly encoded into them. Even a golden retreiver can be trained to attack.

Start putting the blame where it belongs for crying out loud. Of course that would mean that we'd actually have to confront the people, and make them accountable for their actions right? Not exactly PC, or comfortable to do is it? Much easier to blame the dog or weapon.
I couldn't agree more; my dog is one of the nicest, sweetest-natured animals I've ever encountered. We got him when he was 5 weeks old; too young to leave his mother, really, but there wasn't any choice. He was one of eight in the litter; I was able to keep tabs on 4 of his brothers; they all turned out to be real nasty customers, but that was because they were abused and neglected by their owners; they were beaten, chained out in the rain with no shelter, ignored for days and not fed or watered; if I had been treated that way, I'd have been sociopathic; they just got defensive.
My dog has always been a member of the family; we treat him with love and respect and he reciprocates. That's not to say he won't bark at you if you come in my yard, but he's just letting me know you're there and telling you to mind your manners until I say you're OK. He's my best friend; he asks nothing of me I don't gladly give. He just had his sixteenth birthday; he doesn't play with his frisbee as much as he did, I don't think he sees as well as he used to, but he's in really good shape for an old dog; I know he won't be around too much longer, but he will be well remembered by myself and my children and their children; he's pretty popular in my family, but it was the way he was raised; it's never the dog; it's ALWAYS the master that determines how a dog acts; it's beyond me how someone can intentionally make a dog mean.
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