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- From: shedevil@vix.com (Anne P. Mitchell JD)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.dogs
- Subject: Re: Pet Peeves
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 11:28:04 -0800
- Organization: Knapp & Viola, Attys. at Law, San Mateo, CA
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- In a recent missive ce293@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gail E. Brookhart) tells us:
- *
- *In a previous article, shedevil@vix.com (Anne P. Mitchell JD) says:
- *>
- *>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!
- *>
- *>
-
- *Hey there, hold on there!
- *
- *I agree with you wholeheartedly that the dog should have had some quick
- *solutions to his behavior applied in no uncertain terms but please do not
- *join with the crackpots in the insurance companies, the courts (sorry! I
- *noticed the JD but I am posting my opinion), and the wacko general
- *poluation who badmouth breeds for aggression.
-
- [...]
-
- *What's my point? You can take ANY dog of ANY breed and through
- *mismanagement turn it into a ROTTEN dog. The responsibility falls first
- *and foremost to the OWNER, then to the INDIVIDUAL DOG and last to the
- *BREED. It is people who don't train out problem behaviors in their dogs or
- *who intentionally train them INTO their dogs who are the problem before you
- *can assign blame to the dog or the breed.
- *
- *Let's put the blame on the right shoulders here and assign it to a lady who
- *didn't train a dog and not pin the rap on a breed again.
- *
-
-
- Er...that was exactly the point I *was* making. Which is why it is no
- wonder these kinds of breeds get a bad name. Because of their
- irresponsible owners.
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