Kristel Smart Webboard User Reg: 10-03-2006
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Here are two just from the past week:
My very well behaved Dobie and I were leaving a petstore just as a mother and her young son were walking in with a NOT so well-behaved small dog (poodle mix?). She grabs her boy by the arm and pulls him backward while saying very loudly (and passive aggressively) "we don't go NEAR those kinds of dogs; they should all be SHOT if you ask me". My Dobe is six months old <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
The second incident: I was walking my VERY dog-aggressive Greyhound in the park. He is MUZZLED and I'm keeping him away from any other dogs I see. Suddenly I hear him start growling; I turn around and there's a woman with a yellow lab EXTENDING HER LEASH OUT so her dog can meet mine WHILE she asks "is he friendly?" I said "does he LOOK friendly?!" while he kept snarling and lunging at her dog, who was by this time wetting himself. <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
Melissa Hoyer Webboard User Reg: 05-09-2005
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I run into this type of thing all the time when I walk my two GSDs...one of whom is only 7 months old.
I find there are three types of people - those who run in the other direction, those who want to love on my dogs (usually dog owners themselves), or those who only want to pet my pup - who by the way is not that friendly, very aloof, while my older GSD is the super social one.
While mall-walking a clearly identified, jacketed, GSD guide dog in training (with full legal, public access status) a mall security officer marched up and said something like, EVERYONE KNOWS POLICE DOGS ARE BITERS, get it out of here before I get the police. I told him quietly I would wait for the police...and I did. The next night there were two or three of us in that mall with our dogs in training. We made sure that jerk saw us.<img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
One day when I walked my two GSDs into the groomer's shop there was a woman in there who freaked when she saw my dogs. She told me that she was bitten by a GSD one day when she was walking by someone's house. She said she was pregnant at the time and the dog could smell it and that's why it bit her. There was so much stupidity there I didn't even respond to her.
I did research before I got my Doberman, at least about the breed. I am still a NOVICE, but they are excellent family dogs if properly trained, exercised, socialized, etc just like any dog can be if those things are done properly. My mom freaked out and told me that they are VICIOUS dogs and she didn't want her grandbabies mauled by that dog. Okay, Annie was 8 weeks old when I got her and she weighed about 10 lbs! I was terrified of her vicious kisses and affection. I still am... NOT!! <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />
Jäger is our two year old GSD. We speak to him in German because 1) It looks cool, and 2) we still remember enough German so we don't need to stop and think of what word was for what.
A lot of people, adults, people old enough to vote (and reproduce) ask me what I'm saying. I tell them he's trained in German, and they say "Oh, well that makes sense; he probably understands better in his native language."
I quit telling them that his native language is Dog, I just smile and move now.
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In what language should we train our Spanish-born, Brit-owned, Malinois x GSD? <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
She's just a mixed-up girl.
That's when you realize that SOME people should be spayed or neutered <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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