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Originally Posted by scottmandue
Strange how if one of us has a sick pet and looking at thousands in vet bills most of y'all are "it is just a pet put it down."
Now y'all are getting all mushy about a psyhco dog that can't be controlled... maybe one of you "dog whisperers" should step up and adopt this "problem child" and show us how it is done?
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I will NOT tolerate a dog that can't be controlled (though I've never had one, nor been around any that "I" couldn't given some time and effort). I couldn't "adopt" one of my friend's "troubled pack" (and though he still has 6, some have been removed from his pack) for the same reason I couldn't adopt the OP's. Though I have none of my own, I'm just around too many kids with the youngest being 18 months old. I'm like Speeder...dawgs gotta be ABSOLUTELY trustworthy around children for me to consider it...otherwise the risk is just too great and I just won't go there. Now if I lived out on my 10 acres in the country...that'd be different.
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Originally Posted by scottmandue
I AM a dog person... I have met several pit bulls that were total sweethearts... I raised a Doberman that a friend of a friend gave me  also was a total sweetheart.
I'm just saying IMHO some dogs have a imbalance in their brain and no amount of training (or posting of cute doggy pictures) is going to change that, again IMHO. |
Both sets of my grandparents were "country folk" and were "old school"...a dog kills a chicken, they were humanely dispatched with a 12 ga 'cause once they've done it once.... They simply didn't have much choice (with 7 kids each and several farm dogs) to live any other way....and didn't. I absolutely LOVE dogs, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. As Speeder also said...putting a dog down is a peaceful as them going to sleep (I personally couldn't "shoot" one)....it's only hard on us (and I've always held mine in my arms, and shed some tears as I take 'em across the "bridge"). As intelligent as dogs are, what about pigs/hogs? Though I'm decades removed from farming life....my cousins had to feed their "pet" hogs...knowing they'd be on their plates the following winter. I love animals...all of them, but their "place" is so far below humans (ESPECIALLY children) that it's just a "no brainer" to me, but I've been attempting to offer suggestions for the OP and his situation. We are all different with various backgrounds, and he was sincerely looking for options that will "work" for him...YMMV.