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- From: shedevil@vix.com (Anne P. Mitchell JD)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.dogs
- Subject: Pet Peeves
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 01:17:51 -0800
- Organization: Knapp & Viola, Attys. at Law, San Mateo, CA
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-
- I don't know if the title is that appropriate, but it seemed a cute
- play on words for this group. :-)
-
- Anyway, I just need to blow off some steam about something that
- *really* got to me today:
-
- We were at the dog park in our area [an off-lead fenced in park], and
- this little bitty woman was there..she probably was about 5'4 or 5'5
- and weighed about 105. She had this very large [breed name omitted
- because I think it's irrelevant...suffice to say, however, that it is
- a large breed, and known to be dog aggressive if not properly
- socialized] male. Her dog jumped a male golden, and was beating the
- stuffing out of this poor dog. This woman just *stood there* and
- *watched*..never moving in closer [she was about 25-30 feet
- away]..never saying a thing, just watching...for at least a full
- minute..then she *walked* up towards where her dog was still on top of
- the other dog, and said, in a not very stern/alarming voice
- "<dogname>, no!". Of course, it did nothing. She didn't even try to
- stop it, just grabbed her dog's collar when he broke for a moment.
- Her remonstrations to him weren't very stern, really, either. The
- moment she let him go, he was back on top of the other dog, of
- course. I finally went up to her, even though it wasn't my park, or
- really my place, and told her quite sternly "Look, you either have to
- roll that dog *now*, or get him out of this park". She said "I know,
- I'm going to get him out", and in the same manner as before, got him
- by the collar when he came up for air, and walked him out of the park.
-
- Now, I don't think she was happy about his fighting or anything, just
- to make that clear..she did think it was bad..but she didn't *do
- anything*.
-
- It made me SO mad!!! It seems to me to be *so* irresponsible to have
- a male of a large breed, known to be aggressive, and to not be able to
- handle him!...and to not be prepared to jump in and take the necessary
- corrective action!...heck..*I* was about to jump in and roll him!..
- but he was *huge* and I figured that as a total stranger to this dog
- he might well turn on me.
-
- No wonder these kind of breeds get a bad name!
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