BamaD -> RE: Gun hating ignorant sluts... (4/26/2017 2:46:43 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Edwird "We" just didn't know any better back then, about pet responsibility in urban areas. The dog is okay at home, how could there be any trouble? I can't remember how many times I heard "Aw, don't worry, he/she ain't gonna bite ya." "No, it just barks viciously and terrorizes kids and while we're at it does in fact bite." Most of the time dogs just bark and that's all there is to it, but after witnessing the kitten being ripped apart at an early I didn't get that. I didn't just fear dogs, I hated them. But we are in a better place with that now. I didn't understand nature then, I understand it much better now, and dogs and cats are our historical connection to it for the last few hundred thousand years or so. I finally noticed; "So dogs didn't do a whole lot worse than humans with the urbanization thing, huh?" If looking at the stats, they have made the transition at least as well as humans, probably better in fact. BTW, don't you like being in a situation where you don't always need the leash or the scooper and bag? That's what I was talking about at the end of my previous post. Dogs are like dolphins on land, they love human companionship. Don't blame everybody from the '20s to '70s for being "irresponsible," we were ignoramuses about a lot of things then. Other kids and I were terrorized by dogs, so were my parents, but we survived. And we learned, hence the eventual laws that acknowledged the nature of animals, and that dogs require and in fact seek direction. And the nature of dogs has taught us other things about nature and about ourselves. They are our intro to what's out there in the woods. If I ever had a brat, I would definitely get a dog to chaperone her/him into the woods, because I loved going there when I was a brat, and I probably would have explored even more things with that comfort of protection. As I said I have a Rott. People who see me walking him ask if he will bite them. I tell them only if they do something stupid. No problem. As for biting kids the only danger would be I he jumped on them while they play. And I have taught him to sit and wait for them to pet him. I live in a bad neighborhood but the good guys are taking it back, no reason to leave now.
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