Good read, thanks for posting. I can't resist commenting on the following:
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“I’ve seen virtually every breed involved in fatalities, including Pomeranians and everything else, except a beagle or a basset hound,” Randall Lockwood, a senior vice-president of the A.S.P.C.A. and one of the country’s leading dogbite experts, told me.
I can honestly say that being killed by a Pomeranian must be an incredibly slow, horribly embarassing, and overwhelmingly annoying way to die.
Janice Jarman Webboard User Reg: 04-19-2005
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If they are talking about the same Pomeranian related Dog Bite Related Fatality that I've read about, the dog killed an infant.
(again, where were the parents?) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
Janice Jarman Webboard User Reg: 04-19-2005
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No need to apologize. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
For a toy dog to kill an adult human being, it would be like being pecked to death by chickens, I imagine. However, I do remember reading about one and only one DBRF involving a pom and an infant. Just shows that you never leave dogs and children together unsupervised, no matter the size of the dog. My minpins could do serious damage to my grandkids, if my dogs were so inclined. My dogs have been taught not to bite (and the grandkids have been taught how to act around our dogs), but they also are not together without adults right there, either.
Will Rambeau Moderator Reg: 01-25-2003
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I consider the New Yorker to be a biased rag, and this piece is their usually type of journalism - a spin piece with a small message used out of context.
Pfffttt.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />
alice oliver Webboard User Reg: 09-14-2005
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whether you agree with the new yorker's biases or not, this particular piece seems well reported, well argued, and provides an important public service.
will, what exactly are your objections to the article. it makes an important case, and thoroughly, does it not?
Barbara Erdman Webboard User Reg: 10-20-2005
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I thought it was a really good article and was wondering the same thing as you Alice. What was wrong with it Will? I haven't seen an article as thorough and unbiased while being so explanatory. At least that's what I thought until I read your post. What did I miss <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Will Rambeau Moderator Reg: 01-25-2003
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Well, when they say things like the people that moved out of New York not being as safe as people that stayed in New York - that statement was meant as a pro-New York propaganda comment yet no where did they actually compare the crime rate between New York and the other area ( Port Lucie or someplace for retirement...), they only mentioned that the crime rate in NYC was dropping ( well...don't ya think it's dropping in the other area, also? )
That's a bogus agreement that typical for that rag, and there are several other spins that have no basis in fact in that piece.
Sorry, I tend to read things with a critical eye and I don't like spin being used instead of good reporting. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />
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