How can people be so unaware?

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So my OH was watching its me or the dog this morning and the show infuriates me!

How can people let it get to that point with their dogs?
They seem like they don't even think its a problem.

Today it was a lab and a JRT that attacked each other and the JRT had already bitten 2 children yet the owners had just decided it was part of the dogs personality and it was fine.

Seriously why do people not try to do anything about things like this until it gets to the point when they are about to be PTS?

:rolleyes:
 
Yeah, imagine if it were a bigger breed, wouldn't be so cute or funny or part of the personality then.....

Sure I've watched someone let their puppy lunge and bark and gob off at every passing dog and just hold onto the end of lead helplessly watching with a sad face, while I'm hissing 'distract her! don't just stand there and let her do it!' - won't be so 'cute' when she's fully grown and trying to eat every other dog she sees....or picks a fight with the wrong one...
 
I don't watch the show for that very reason. It's the owners who more often than not, cause the death of their dog. And then they will probably do out, get another dog and do it all over again.
 
It's always the bloody small dogs - there's one in our family that's a case in point, already bitten another dog badly enough that my nan had to pay for stitches and has to be locked outside when the kids or I visit - but because they're small their behaviour is overlooked. A bigger dog would have been PTS by that point.

Of all the dogs we are barked at/mobbed by/snapped at on a daily basis, not one has been bigger than a terrier.

CC, I thought of you when we were walking through town recently (stop me if I've told you this story before, it was a few weeks back and I'm getting old :p) and passed a man with a truly gigantic GSD - magnificent animal, mahoosive beast of a thing and beautiful long coat - but when he saw us coming he immediately frogmarched the dog to the other side of the street and got it into some kind of headlock. The dog then proceeded to blow up at Dax, lunging, barking and actually pulling the man onto his knees in the road at one point. :eek: Before the man reacted, the dog had been walking calmly to heel and hadn't paid us the slightest bit of attention. Totally bizarre behaviour (from man, not dog - dog was reacting quite rightly!).
 
katielou_houston said:
BC- The one OH is watching now has a malamute called diesel. I could have told them that all he needed was more exercise.
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I can only imagine what an under-exercised malamute is like to live with and cannot understand why anyone would tolerate that behaviour in their home. :rolleyes:

A lot of people express surprise at how quiet Daxy-dog is in the house and out and about on a short lead (still working on the off-lead behaviour, mind) and then think I'm exaggerating when I point out how much exercise she gets per day to achieve that. If you don't do it, you get the husky furniture olympics. :p
 
It amazes me too, people who have dogs and dont have BASIC knowledge such as: dogs need excersise and stimulation (yes even Yorkies and other "Toy" breeds!!:mad:) Males who are showing aggression and dominance can be improved by castration if your not planning to show/breed them, dog s who are fed all sorts of **** will become fat, obesity in dogs is just as cruel as malnutrition, small dogs are not "BABIES" they are DOGS!!!:mad:

Sorry,rant over. I feel very strongly about these issues:o:o
 
That show is sooo rubbish, anyone could do what that woman does!! I seen an episode the other week and this woman had about 5 wee terrier dogs and they were so hyper, noisey, misbehaved, but she hadnt walked them in years :eek: poor things ... omg and she feed them cups of tea, biscuits and ice creams every day!! jezzzz some people!!!! ... Although i do like watching the dog whisperer with ceaser millan (sp) i think its very interesting :p
 
katielou_houston said:
So my OH was watching its me or the dog this morning and the show infuriates me!

How can people let it get to that point with their dogs?
They seem like they don't even think its a problem.

Today it was a lab and a JRT that attacked each other and the JRT had already bitten 2 children yet the owners had just decided it was part of the dogs personality and it was fine.

Seriously why do people not try to do anything about things like this until it gets to the point when they are about to be PTS?

:rolleyes:
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They probably contacted the TV Company over a year ago!:D
 
One of the dogs I had bred,a black patterdale ,was on that program;the owners were really proud that their dog was "a tv star", and very bemused by my reaction of "you should be ashamed of yourself,I certainly was that I had bred it".
 
Hey BC, I invite you to come and meet my two "small dogs".

From the day dot I was 100% focussed that my JRTs ("oooh you don't want one of those, they snap, they yap, they fight a lot") would be model examples of the breed.

They would never dream of fighting, I actively discourage barking, they've never been yappy and you can take THE highest value bone etc from their mouths and they just look on adoringly. They let any new dog into our house, and even though Roly hated Zarno, he never turned on him.

Sure, they are game - and when we play fight - we REALLY play fight and I know were they dogs who had ever been allowed to scrap, they'd go and go and go and no-one would have a chance with them, but as with every single dog in the world, they are products of their owners, nothing more or less.

:)
 
Noo, you're taking my point the wrong way, I'm not blaming all terriers! My last dog was a JRT, for example, and he never put a foot wrong in his entire life.

What I am pointing out is that for the average everyday numpty (i.e no-one on here :p), bad behaviour exhibited by small dogs is inconsequential - jumping up, well, he doesn't weigh a thing and does't get past your knees anyway, no need to tell him off. Yapping at another dog - ooh, isn't he funny, he's all mouth, he wouldn't hurt a fly.

If a large dog, particularly certain breeds (GSDs, rotties, bull breeds, usual suspects) did any of that regularly it wouldn't be funny, you'd be hounded in the street for your 'dangerous' dog.

I propose an experiment - give the owners of one of those horrid yappy fluffy things I meet a variation of every single day a large-breed pup, and see what kind of adult dog they produce. :rolleyes:
 
Excuse my grousing, we are regularly harassed by a pair of dirty matted shih-tzus that would've been shot ten times over if they could reach anything other than your ankles, I may have been venting a little. :p
 
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