More on racism and BSL: https://racism.org/articles/basic-needs/propertyland/2334-the-black-man-s-dog-the-social-context-of-breed-specific-legislationhttps://law.lclark.edu/live/files/32171-25-1-third-articlepdfhttps://medium.com/etc-magazine/the-inherent-racism-behind-breed-specific-legislation-7e3d6d1981fb
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 16:11 (three months ago) link
ty karl
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 16:12 (three months ago) link
Fair enough, table. It felt like it was all about the terrible owners as the sole explanation for the dog's behaviour.
We can talk about different factors that lead to the event of the dog committing the act.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 16:12 (three months ago) link
deems, I marvel at the ability of retrievers to just dive into the most insane muck. great pic.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 16:12 (three months ago) link
ty table ✓
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 16:13 (three months ago) link
they look marvelous d-mac. Makes me glad my dog hates water and mud though.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 16:14 (three months ago) link
Yes love that pic, what a lovely stinker!
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 16:16 (three months ago) link
deems I love how your dog is looking at the golden like "anything good in there?"
― a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 16:43 (three months ago) link
"no bad dogs, only bad dog owners"
If the parents raise a child who goes on to commit murder, will you all just blame the parents?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, February 13, 2024 8:33 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
jfc fuck off
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:31 (three months ago) link
American humans kill 500 times more people a year than american dogs do. Statistically speaking, you'd be safer in a room with 20 pit bulls than you would with 1 person.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:57 (three months ago) link
well, exactly. You have to be extremely unlucky to get killed by a dog. More people die from freak accidents in the home than from doogie snappers!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 18:11 (three months ago) link
made that last stat up, but who really gaf
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 18:14 (three months ago) link
anyway some of these ppl killed by dogs might have been nonces or fascist generals in previous lives, you never know
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 18:16 (three months ago) link
Also, no dog breed can lock its jaw— this is a myth promulgated by a racist media to generate hatred of breeds associated with poorer, less white populations. This is absolutely obvious to anyone who knows anything about Breed Specific Legislation and bias against pitbulls, bully-type dogs, dobermans, etc.
I don't doubt anything that you are posting here, but I still wouldn't get a Bully. Whether it is a rational fear or not, their potential for inflicting harm worries me more than it does with other dog types and I don't want any more stress or anxiety than I've already got in my life. I'm sure yours is a beaut.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 18:32 (three months ago) link
I've got a grumpy alpha-male Labrador who hates kids and growls at them sometimes if they approach him too fast. It gives me low level anxiety at times, but I know he's incapable of seriously harming a human or even another dog. If I had a dog that was capable of causing serious injury - I'd be perma-stressed. I have seen my dog at his worst when getting into scraps with other dogs and it's all sound and fury with no real biting. Even that causes me more stress than I want really.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 18:52 (three months ago) link
They are hard to control. In places like Goa there are a lot of stray dogs about, definitely been stressful walking around there.
While I've not been I've seen videos of cats in Istanbul and it looks delightful. Over here any cat walking about is cute and they usually get out of your way but if you see them time and again they want a stroke.
Another time I was walking through a cemetery and the cat who was about joined me in a walk, then we went our separate ways, sharing a great moment.
In contrast small dogs are little Napoleons, barking away at anyone while their fascist owners laugh.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:01 (three months ago) link
the only thing I feel when my dog barks at ppl is slight embarrassment
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:04 (three months ago) link
I wish there were more considerate dogs owners like you, Calzino.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:05 (three months ago) link
dogs only bark at people if they’re on the lead ime, or if they’re stupid tiny yipper dogs who are compensating for their freakish breeding by taking it out on the rest of us
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:17 (three months ago) link
Our dog used to bark at the postmen and postwomen, and men with grey hair. He was a horrible high strung little fella but we miss him! I’ll send you a pic.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:24 (three months ago) link
I don’t get why there’s denial that dogs specifically bred to fight or hunt might be more aggressive temperamentally. Have never feared a Saint Bernard or the lovely horse-dog* across the road that comes up to the top of my hip, other breeds, prefer to keep my distance. *looks like a very large extremely hairy golden retriever? I don’t know his/her actual name but to me it is “The honey monster”
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:27 (three months ago) link
fwiw dogs bred to hunt are generally bred to FIND prey and/or bring it back once it’s been killed. i don’t think a lab or a spaniel would have any idea what to do with a live bird sitting right in front of them (i have witnessed this confusion first hand)dogs bred to fight yeah idk i’m not a fan, and even big old malinois make me nervous even though they’re basically fine - they are bred to “protect” their owners so god help you if they think you are a threat
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:31 (three months ago) link
Or point to it so you can shoot it I guess.
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:36 (three months ago) link
Spaniels are fast enough to catch and kill squirrels. I only found this out about 5 years when an adorable Spaniel (RIP Bernie) I used to see all the time, his owner told me he would sometimes kill 2 or 3 of them on one walk when he was younger.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:36 (three months ago) link
We used to have a couple of Jack Russells, they are excellent hunters of small animals. Clever and relentless.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:37 (three months ago) link
lol maybe my spaniel is just useless
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:38 (three months ago) link
Our dog was part spaniel and he was dumb as shit, but then my best friend knew a springer who had worked out how to open a dishwasher to lick the plates, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:50 (three months ago) link
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:51 (three months ago) link
Yes, and probably snakes too. I reckon that's where the name "terrier" comes from, their propensity to dig.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:53 (three months ago) link
I was talking to someone who has three poodles and they were telling that one of them butchered a hedgehog in the garden. Was shocked and had no idea poodles were capable of such wanton bloodshed, then I was informed they used to be used as rat control in coal mines.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:01 (three months ago) link
After the Jacks came to live with us, the chipmunk population in the yard dropped to zero.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:02 (three months ago) link
xp yeah they’re working dogs aren’t they? Not dissimilar to Portuguese water dogs
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:06 (three months ago) link
all you pitbull haters are full of shit.
Some pit bulls were selected and bred for their fighting ability. That means that they may be more likely than other breeds to fight with dogs. It doesn’t mean that they can’t be around other dogs or that they’re unpredictably aggressive. Other pit bulls were specifically bred for work and companionship. These dogs have long been popular family pets, noted for their gentleness, affection and loyalty. And even those pit bulls bred to fight other animals were not prone to aggressiveness toward people. Dogs used for fighting needed to be routinely handled by people; therefore aggression toward people was not tolerated. Any dog that behaved aggressively toward a person was culled, or killed, to avoid passing on such an undesirable trait. Research on pet dogs confirms that dog aggressive dogs are no more likely to direct aggression toward people than dogs that aren’t aggressive to other dogs.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:38 (three months ago) link
buying into media lies and savagery and contributing to the enormous population of pits in shelters. just astonishingly bad critical thinking taking place on this issue.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:39 (three months ago) link
oh snap water dogs!! i told about this once before but it's one of my fave dog stories so lucky y'all get to read it again!
back in the 60s the russian navy wanted the perfect military water rescue dog so they crossbred newfies + a couple types of fiercely protective shepherds and created the Moscow Water Dog, who would swim out to drowning sailors and bite them, oops lol
― nḏm (cat), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:45 (three months ago) link
Any dog, no matter their apparent breeding or temperament, is capable of attacking a person. They’re animals who run on instincts, not reasoned-out decisions. But it’s pretty easy to reduce the chance of an attack ever happening to zero if you’re a responsible dog owner: don’t let your dog off leash outside your secured yard, don’t leave your dog unsupervised with a child or another dog, teach your children how to act responsibly around dogs (don’t fucking approach and/or touch strange dogs without asking the owner if it’s ok, don’t loom over them, don’t touch their heads, don’t grab them), get to know your dog so you understand their triggers and signals.
When I was a kid, a child had his face savagely bitten by a friendly and charming Labrador. The dog was in a car parked outside a party, with the window rolled all the way down. Kids were running around and one popped up suddenly in front of the open window and startled the dog. He reacted on instinct and attacked.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:34 (three months ago) link
Yep, we fostered an adorable little JRT once. Took our eye off her for a second around a small kid, small kid tried to pull the dog onto her lap, dog got a fright, nipped small kid in the face. It was all fine, the child had forgotten all about it by the end of the visit, but it could all have gone a very different way.
Have I told the story about the woman I met one day with her pure-bred cocker spaniel? She keeps him in show-dog condition at all times. I said "but is that not very impractical around here, with the beach and all?" And she said no, he hates to be dirty, and won't go in the water at all. She looked at my four wet, sandy dogs and asked me "how do you keep your house clean?" and I said, "I don't, my house is absolutely manky." Which is true. I don't think she believed me.
Deems, that is an awesome dog picture.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:42 (three months ago) link
my dog had an early period of jumping in the canal and wading through mud, but soon decided this stuff sucked. And I'm glad.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:09 (three months ago) link
Poodles (the clue’s in the name, comes from pudel which means ‘to splash’ in German) are really German water dogs. The French water dog is called a Barbet.
― steely flan (suzy), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:11 (three months ago) link
how do you keep your house clean?
keep towel at door, got a robot vacuum, gave up besides
fuckin saving up like mad for washable paint mind
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 23:33 (three months ago) link
love cat's russian dog tale
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 23:34 (three months ago) link
I never seem to have the foresight to buy some mudsplash coloured paint.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 23:39 (three months ago) link
dmac wins the dog photo competition.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 00:11 (three months ago) link
It's one of those little miracles of the universe that we were born in different time zones xyzzzz__, so I don't have the opportunity to actively engage in your foolish posting lol. Go get a dog, it'll make you happier
― H.P, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 01:22 (three months ago) link
Also sorry I engaged in my bit first dmac, but yes i concur, wonderful doggo who clearly knows a think or two about exfoliation
― H.P, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 01:25 (three months ago) link
In awe of any dog owner that keeps their house clean. Peach isn't a dirty girl, but the daily beach trips brings an ungodly amount of sand into this house.
Witnessed a jack russel going turbo speed trying to catch a seagull at the beach today, really didn't know they had that energy in them. Can absolutely see how they could tear through anything the same size/smaller than them that doesn't have wings.
― H.P, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 01:34 (three months ago) link
guys its ok i was just tryin to distract the scrapping posters
all the dog pics are good, all the dogs pictured are good dogs
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 08:34 (three months ago) link
Depends on the owners.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 08:36 (three months ago) link
fuck off, good lad
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 08:52 (three months ago) link
You don't sound happy. Get a cat
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 08:53 (three months ago) link