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ORIGINAL: BamaD
I live in an area where there are a number of burglaries and lots of drugs.

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My portion of the area cut some of this out when a burglar found out the hard way that our neighbor had a pit bull, got his arm ripped real good for his trouble.

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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance
a sad testament to the irresponsibility of humanity.

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ORIGINAL: Baldrick

I tell people... if folks want to break into my house they are welcome to try... if they can get through, without being chewed on my the 85lb Rottweiler, I am a reenactor, I have more swords, bayonets and tomahawks than the average person. I also know my house better in the dark than they do... and also if needed I have the key to my trigger lock on my G98 close at hand...

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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.

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ORIGINAL: Gunslinger4hire
A submissive living near Gary, Indiana just sent me a message stating my profile picture is horrible and I should be banned from the website.

Apparently it "triggered" her. K.

What "triggered" me was . . .

Had a g/f once with a S&W .38 she kept on top of the side table nearest the bedroom door, because that's where she slept closest to, bed partner or not. It took me 2-3 weeks to convince her to place it on the side table on the other side of the bed, away from the door. I hope I don't have to explain why to the audience here, but I had to do that at the time.

But at least I learned from my few gun-owning friends before and after to understand the difference between keeping one in the chamber with the safety in place or empty chamber with safety off. Any responsible owner wanted to prevent accidents by forcing at least one action before pulling trigger, so far as I was told.

The g/f and I left on good terms, we talked ourselves and spoke well of each other at parties years later, etc., but as it turned out, my next prospective g/f was a gun owner too, so I asked her if she kept one in the chamber or left the safety off.

"um, I don't know . . ."

I didn't go further. Too bad. She was a sweet lady, too. Had it not been for the immediately prior experience, I likely wouldn't have noticed or cared, wouldn't know enough to ask the question at all.

Too much potential for accidental/unintentional shooting for my taste, in both cases.

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People who see me walking him ask if he will bite them.
I tell them only if they do something stupid.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD
I live in an area where there are a number of burglaries and lots of drugs.

The responsible thing there would be to move to a better neighborhood. I lived in places like that when I was 19. Long time ago.

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My portion of the area cut some of this out when a burglar found out the hard way that our neighbor had a pit bull, got his arm ripped real good for his trouble.

As a teenager trying to make some money before I had to get to school, it was idiots like you and your neighbor who's dogs chomped my arm and leg for trying to deliver the newspaper.

Hence the comment:

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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance
a sad testament to the irresponsibility of humanity.

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ORIGINAL: WinsomeDefiance

Bama,

I have lived in some bad neighborhoods. Even dragged one of the punk drug dealers (didn't know who he was at the time) down the stairs by his ear, my youngest son yelling Momma! You can't do that! You don't know who he is! To me, he was just a truant kid ditching school and hiding out in my son's room. Told the boy and my son to get their asses to school and they both said yes ma'am.

Caught the punk kids across the street throwing rocks at my baby boy. I walked across the street and very calmly looked them in the eye and told them, " If my baby comes home with so much as a bruise I'll spend my last dime paying the biggest, the baddest, the meanest mother fucker I know to rape your asses." Then I invited my ex navy seal biker friend over the next day and pointed across the street to the kids, he gave them the stink eye and I pretended to hand some cash over to him. They left my kids alone. Not proud of it, but people tend to leave crazy ladies alone.

Truthfully, I've had some pretty hard case kids in my home for the holidays and even unofficially adopted a few.
I've never felt threatened or unsafe.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD
The dog was locked inside the house, the thug asked for it, and got it.
When that dog was outside, with his owner present (as always) he would run over to my yard to ask me to pet him.

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The dog was locked inside the house, the thug asked for it, and got it.
When that dog was outside, with his owner present (as always) he would run over to my yard to ask me to pet him.

Most of the break-ins to my residence occurred in or near neighborhoods where people like you live, and all white teenagers doing it. All.

And you missed the point that dogs don't know the difference between one intruder or another, they are just doing their job as naturally inclined to do. It's up to the owner to keep them at heel in whatever way in whatever situation.

I'm a guy, not a lady, and I don't have kids, so I'm sure it could be different in those circumstances, but in any case the last time someone broke in, I heard him coming through the window while I was in the shower. I said; 'Damn! he could have come five minutes earlier or later!' But here it was, and no clothes in the bathroom.

I walked out with the towel around my waist and hair dripping, already having in mind what objects I was going to use as weapon, and I see this big black teenager halfway through the window and I say 'What the hell are you doing!" "I was just trying to get some firewood!" (this was in late May in the South).

It was obvious he was embarrassed and didn't like what he was doing. He backed out hastily and ran like lightning.

When I lived in neighborhoods such as yours, I wasn't scared like you are, so I guess that carried over. I bottle-fed the brats of neighbors and fellow tokers when I was 17-20 and living who-knows-where. It didn't matter to me where or how I lived at the time. But I was always good for babysitting the brats.

For all I know, I could have bottle-fed that guy trying to get in while I was in the shower, back in the day (I doubt it, just saying . . .).

The best voice of authority is sometimes the voice of recognition, even though I'm sure none of that was in conscious mind at the moment.

Aside from that; "At least act like you know what you're doing!", that's my motto.

My voice convinced him that I knew what I was doing, and he didn't know what I was going to do next. That's all it took.

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ORIGINAL: Edwird

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ORIGINAL: BamaD
The dog was locked inside the house, the thug asked for it, and got it.
When that dog was outside, with his owner present (as always) he would run over to my yard to ask me to pet him.

Most of the break-ins to my residence occurred in or near neighborhoods where people like you live, and all white teenagers doing it. All.

And you missed the point that dogs don't know the difference between one intruder or another, they are just doing their job as naturally inclined to do. It's up to the owner to keep them at heel in whatever way in whatever situation.

I'm a guy, not a lady, and I don't have kids, so I'm sure it could be different in those circumstances, but in any case the last time someone broke in, I heard him coming through the window while I was in the shower. I said; 'Damn! he could have come five minutes earlier or later!' But here it was, and no clothes in the bathroom.

I walked out with the towel around my waist and hair dripping, already having in mind what objects I was going to use as weapon, and I see this big black teenager halfway through the window and I say 'What the hell are you doing!" "I was just trying to get some firewood!" (this was in late May in the South).

It was obvious he was embarrassed and didn't like what he was doing. He backed out hastily and ran like lightning.

When I lived in neighborhoods such as yours, I wasn't scared like you are, so I guess that carried over. I bottle-fed the brats of neighbors and fellow tokers when I was 17-20 and living who-knows-where. It didn't matter to me where or how I lived at the time. But I was always good for babysitting the brats.

For all I know, I could have bottle-fed that guy trying to get in while I was in the shower, back in the day (I doubt it, just saying . . .).

The best voice of authority is sometimes the voice of recognition, even though I'm sure none of that was in conscious mind at the moment.

Aside from that; "At least act like you know what you're doing!", that's my motto.

My voice convinced him that I knew what I was doing, and he didn't know what I was going to do next. That's all it took.

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ORIGINAL: Edwird

Everybody who moves to a better neighborhood as financial circumstances allow (which pretty much anyone able to do so in fact does) is "running away," is that it?

If that's how those of mental decrepitude deal with their own life, then have at it.

I've been been bitten by a wonderful girl in my shins twice at a friend's house. I knew the dog was wonderful because she protected her masters vigorously and the idiots had no idea how to control her and never did. 90% of dogs like me, this one was in the other 10%.

If I'd gotten that dog as a puppy and got her properly trained, I want that dog taking my kids out into the wilds, if I had brats of my own.

I absolutely understood what she was doing as her teeth sunk in, now. I absolutely did NOT understand such things when I was a young brat myself.

We need better education for the adults, first and foremost, then the dogs, then the kids.

Dogs and people (especially the brats) are made for each other, and I hate that I missed out on that because adults were so stupid at the time.

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ORIGINAL: Edwird

Explain that.

This will be interesting.