[javadog]

Dogs may be half domesticated but that doesn’t mean they don’t retain most of how they were programmed long before humans turned them into pets. Some of them may be slightly closer to their wild ancestors than others and some of them are bigger and able to do more damage than others, but they all have the same instincts. That has not been bred out of them. They do well to adapt themselves to our environment, we do poorly to understand them. Not that they are smarter than we are, but they are certainly more observant. That’s why I say that most people are not 100% suited to dog ownership. And we all love them but not that many of us go the extra mile and try to interact with him in the way they need to be interacted with. 99 times out of 100, nothing bad happens, but that other time, it makes the newspaper headlines.

I’m not trying to preach here, I just don’t think as many people understand this as needs to be the case.