cptrayes
Well-Known Member
For the record, since the other thread has been shut, presumably due to someone going too far in being offensive. The thread concerned was not about me, but it seems that people are unable to distinguish between me describing someone's actions and approving of them.
I do not have a problem with Staffies.
When on a horse in the country I would beware of a ridgeback in the control of my neighbour, who has a record of failing to hold one in the past, allowing it to attack my horse.
I do not have a problem with other peoples ridgebacks on a lead, though I would, I think understandably, initially be wary of one loose until I knew it.
I love dogs, especially big ones. I am hoping one day to own a mamalute, a wolf cross, a great dane or a wolfhound or maybe even all four!
The man who shot the rotties (they may have been dobermans, I can't quite remember, it was one of the two) in someone's back garden is true in every single word. I am not prepared to name him on this forum, particularly since a number of you would want to shoot him if I did. If you email me (PM me for my address) so that I know how and where to contact you should anything happen to him, I will give you the details.
Just because I know him and can describe what he does, does not mean that I approve. I personally thought it was outrageous that he was not charged with illegally discharging a firearm in a public place, but perhaps beause it was a garden they could not do that. Maybe the only charge available to them was criminal damage (of the dogs, being in law classed as property) and they felt it was not worth it, or the owners would not support it. He had no proof that it was those dogs killing his sheep, but he was losing sheep every week and since he shot them he has not lost one to a dog savaging from that site.
So, the thread was not about me and whether or not I personally like dogs or not or am scared of dogs or not. Though a big group of people chose to take it in that direction.
It was about the fact that lots and lots and lots of people ARE scared of dogs, especially big ones, and there was an enormous lack of empathy or compassion for those people from a number of dog owners supporting the original poster. Including statements like "if someone is afraid of my dog I don't care" and "if someone is afraid of my dog they should cross the road and keep away from me".
If is people, and comments, like THAT which will causing prejudice against some dog owners, not a poster like me trying to point out that a man who said to a woman, several times, "I am afraid of your dog" may well actually, however much he didn't look it, have been afraid of the dog.
Now, for everyone who still wants to lynch me for daring to speak the truth, I'm just off now to go and play with some dogs, so have fun while I'm out.
I do not have a problem with Staffies.
When on a horse in the country I would beware of a ridgeback in the control of my neighbour, who has a record of failing to hold one in the past, allowing it to attack my horse.
I do not have a problem with other peoples ridgebacks on a lead, though I would, I think understandably, initially be wary of one loose until I knew it.
I love dogs, especially big ones. I am hoping one day to own a mamalute, a wolf cross, a great dane or a wolfhound or maybe even all four!
The man who shot the rotties (they may have been dobermans, I can't quite remember, it was one of the two) in someone's back garden is true in every single word. I am not prepared to name him on this forum, particularly since a number of you would want to shoot him if I did. If you email me (PM me for my address) so that I know how and where to contact you should anything happen to him, I will give you the details.
Just because I know him and can describe what he does, does not mean that I approve. I personally thought it was outrageous that he was not charged with illegally discharging a firearm in a public place, but perhaps beause it was a garden they could not do that. Maybe the only charge available to them was criminal damage (of the dogs, being in law classed as property) and they felt it was not worth it, or the owners would not support it. He had no proof that it was those dogs killing his sheep, but he was losing sheep every week and since he shot them he has not lost one to a dog savaging from that site.
So, the thread was not about me and whether or not I personally like dogs or not or am scared of dogs or not. Though a big group of people chose to take it in that direction.
It was about the fact that lots and lots and lots of people ARE scared of dogs, especially big ones, and there was an enormous lack of empathy or compassion for those people from a number of dog owners supporting the original poster. Including statements like "if someone is afraid of my dog I don't care" and "if someone is afraid of my dog they should cross the road and keep away from me".
If is people, and comments, like THAT which will causing prejudice against some dog owners, not a poster like me trying to point out that a man who said to a woman, several times, "I am afraid of your dog" may well actually, however much he didn't look it, have been afraid of the dog.
Now, for everyone who still wants to lynch me for daring to speak the truth, I'm just off now to go and play with some dogs, so have fun while I'm out.
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@ wolf cross.
