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4623. wabbit - 9/3/2010 12:24:35 AM We had a woman come in once with a puppy she had adopted from a shelter - it looked to be mostly Doberman and was just lovely, a happy smiley wiggly pup. She said if she told her husband the dog might be part Doberman, he'd make her take it back and get something else. I suggested saying it was part coonhound.
Alas, she said part Doberman and the husband made her trade it in for a puppy that looked like a black lab. This new pup was only eight weeks old and was already snapping at us, at her, and had bitten both her children. I love dogs, but that pup needed to be put down. And eventually, after mauling her children a few more times, it was.
But at least it wasn't part Doberman.
So, iiibbb, you are exactly right. All dogs need proper socialization and a consistent environment. 4624. iiibbb - 9/3/2010 3:43:41 AM I think I read that labs attack more kids than all other breeds. 4625. Ms. No - 9/3/2010 8:13:18 AM Nah, it's Dachshunds. Followed by Chihuahuas, Jack Russell Terriers, Australian Cattle Dogs, Cocker Spaniels, and then Beagles. Mostly smallish dogs --- but they don't cause the damage that larger dogs do so it gets ignored.
In the same way that many people don't train their small dogs to sit or not to jump up. "Isn't that cuuuuute?"
No, it's obnoxious, and if it weighed 50lbs instead of 5 or 15, they'd have socialized it better.
I can't count the number of times I've heard a small dog owner brag about how macho their mutt is. "He thinks he's the boss of everybody. He goes after dogs five times bigger than he is."
That's an aggressive, uncontrollable animal, but if it attacked my Pitt-mix in a dog park or on the street, I'd have been the one having to put my dog down.
All apologies to Maisie who is about the cutest, sweetest thing I've ever seen. Arky's pup loves to snuggle and be in your lap, but she goes to her bed when she's told. She's quite a good girl! 4626. arkymalarky - 9/3/2010 2:38:14 PM Awwwww! But she does want to snuggle with company more rthan some of them want. She is a little sweetie, tho. But she doesn't like kids or my MIL. 4627. Ms. No - 9/4/2010 7:20:45 AM Kids are scary --- especially when you're only 8 inches tall!! 4628. wabbit - 9/4/2010 3:26:46 PM Mazie is a sweetie. So are her big siblings.
We used to say that ounce for ounce, the most dangerous breed is the Chihuahua. And I'm with Ms. No, jumping yappy dogs are obnoxious. My sister has a friend who has two teensy Yorkies, and with her and around people in general, they are well behaved. But when they come here, they go berserk yapping and trying to chase my cats, two of whom easily outweigh them by twice. And her excuse is, "Oh, but they would never hurt the cats." That's right, because if cornered, my cats would shred your dogs, and then you'd be pissed at me, instead of recognizing that this is the cat's home, not somewhere you can bring your dogs to entertain themselves. If my mastiff had decided to bark at your Yorkies in *your* house, how would that be?
Ignorance is ignorance. And it's not the dogs fault, it's the owner's fault.
For the record, my mastiff would never have barked at her Yorkies. Nor would the boxer or the ridgeback. I can't be as sure about the pig, he certainly would have been interested in them, for a few seconds, but after a sniff and a snort, I'd bet big money he'd have looked at me as if to say, "What the hell are those things?" and walked away from them. 4629. wabbit - 9/12/2010 9:58:00 PM A bit of happy fun news from cat world...
4630. wabbit - 10/10/2010 2:37:53 AM
I still love Maru... 4631. judithathome - 10/19/2010 9:20:18 PM (I suggested saying it was part coonhound.)
I seem to have forgotten how to italicize quotes!
Our late dog, Klaus (died at 18) looked like he was part dachshund but as I was walking him one day, this old man commented from his porch "That's a fine young coonhound you have there, Missy."...and i figured this guy was knowlegeable enough to know what he was talking about. 4632. wabbit - 12/3/2010 2:35:15 AM
4633. thoughtful - 3/21/2011 5:54:05 PM Living at the new house has afforded me opportunities to observe nature that I haven't had before.
I've learned how Canada Geese "do it" which includes lots of side by side dunking and letting water roll off their backs as well as this flip and roll move where they dunk under and upside down and flip over backward and roll over.
I also saw my first pair of wood duck
and my first pair of hooded mergansers
Life is good. 4634. resonance - 3/28/2011 4:00:20 AM Woobus and Oompah, or something like that? I don't remember a mastiff or a ridgeback. 4635. resonance - 3/28/2011 4:00:50 AM LOL. NVM that post is half a year old. 4636. arkymalarky - 3/28/2011 7:25:13 PM Res! How's everything? 4637. Wombat - 4/1/2011 4:36:43 AM Got my first new car since 1990. VW Jetta Sportwagen TDI.
4638. resonance - 4/1/2011 6:07:32 AM Life is very busy and very good. 4639. arkymalarky - 4/1/2011 6:55:47 AM Yay wombat! Mose's Jetta was great.
Res,
Sounds like mine. Loving everything right now, but wish I had more time for projects I'd like to or need to do. 4640. arkymalarky - 4/1/2011 6:58:35 AM April fools at the mote! I've been trying to think of good tricks to play on my kids tomorrow. It's also prom. I love that they picked that day. 4641. thoughtful - 5/18/2011 1:54:22 PM Too soon perhaps as I've not been "retired" for a year yet, but thinking this a.m. about my corporate life and it was good. I got to go places I'd never been, meet people I never would've otherwise. 99% of my interactions with customers, suppliers and coworkers were enjoyable and I was pleased to have earned the respect by the vast majority of them.
Further, my corporate life was with a good company....not that any company is perfect...but a good one that prided itself on its good works in addition to its ability to make money...demonstrating that the 2 are not necessarily mutually exclusive. In fact, when they come together, they are more powerful than either can be alone.
Unlike conversations I've had with others here about their work experience, my company really did care about things like employee safety...I was involved in committees to make sure that happened. We tracked reported injuries and we came out extremely low. Further, I was involved in helping institute programs that helped our company become more green and our workers become more healthy including exercise and diet. We really did care about our community. We were allowed to do volunteer work on company time...I helped build houses with Habitat, worked at local food banks, shelters for both the homeless and the victims of violence, Ronald Mc Donald houses, ran toy collections and clothing collections. Whenever disaster struck, our company would broadcast internally hotlines to vetted charities to get funds to the victims. And for retirees, they run volunteer vacations where you spend your vacation at a location for a week doing volunteer work.
So there were many ways in which my experience was unique, and I am thankful for it.
We finally sold our old house after much work, remodeling, staging, and then moving all the staged stuff out. We hope this will mean more time will open up in our schedule to get to thing we want to get done on the new house. But also, that it will open up time so I can continue with the volunteer work that I so enjoyed doing.
There are a number of opportunities I'd like to explore...one just for fun is one a friend from work is doing with dress for success, where you get to help select clothing for women who are entering the work force and need help dressing appropriately....like playing dress up with real living dolls! Another is with literacy volunteers which is a big deal with me. Also there's a learning center in the area that helps prepare young women with lives interrupted for their GED. They need volunteers to teach computer skills which sounds like fun too. So many needs...so little time!
If anyone else has some volunteer experience, please let me know...I'm open to exploring other suggestions. 4642. arkymalarky - 5/18/2011 4:55:19 PM I'm biased, but I don't think you could do more people more good than volunteering to give workplace readiness seminars in a poor high school without many resources. Their kids rarely go on field trips or have guest seminars, especially rural schools, and many don't realize what options are available to them or how to pursue them, even if they would make good employees.
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