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jelloapocalypse: aviculture: doberbutts: kawuli: bogleech: just-kateblr: briearesea: bogleech: outta-thyme: bogleech: There are other witnesses to all of this too at a park near us and just holy SHIT. The outright mocking of a little kid for being scared.A dog isn’t a person. It’s an animal with jaws that can rip open a throat. Literally every year there are people, especially children, killed by dogs that were “always so well behaved!” It’s an animal. I love and respect dogs like I do spiders, sharks, snakes, jellyfish, cheetahs, crocodiles and tapeworms but hey, guess which animal here actually causes the most deaths? Owning an animal of any kind isn’t something to be flippant about. I love seeing things I can reblog and add to, so here goes: Dog owners are some of the most ignorant, uneducated pet owners in existence (but especially in the United States). I understand that in the modern world, dogs are seen more as pets than what they really are - working animals. Every dog should be on leash in public, at all times, regardless of how well you think you know your animal. I would go so far as to say, if you don’t have proper canine handling training, then you should also have your dog on a muzzle when in public. I know you’re probably thinking that its cruel and ridiculous to expect people to muzzle their dogs - but my dog isn’t aggressive - you say. To which I respond with; every canine is predisposed to aggressive behavior. Granted that the majority of aggressive behavior in canines is reactive, that is to say, they only act aggressively in response to stimulus, but again, read the bolded statement and get used to it. Aggression is natural for dogs, it is typically used as a defense mechanism either in defending themselves or their owners, but it is natural and it will happen at some point. Children are incredibly vulnerable and dogs are incredibly aware of this, dogs know exactly how we are feeling at every moment - in fact, most kids will be harmed by a friend’s dog due to them not knowing the rules of the friend’s house and the unspoken rules that dog has placed on the children in his/her home. Do not ever let your child into a house that has an unfamiliar dog, no matter what the pet’s owners say. Most children will be afraid of dogs until they have a good experience with one, because our instincts will tell us to fear predators, which is exactly what dogs are. Again, dogs kill more people in the United States a year than cows, who kill more than bears, who kill more than snakes, spiders, alligators, sharks, and mountain lions. Deer are the #1 killer purely do to accident related deaths, but dogs attack and kill more people in the U.S. than any other common animal. That’s statistically factual. The dog in this photo appears to be a Samoyed, which is a relatively friendly breed - but had it been a cattle mix, it probably would have smelled the child’s fear, its owner’s irritation, and it probably would have attempted to herd or attack the child. You’d be putting a cattle dog exactly in it’s working field. Something small and fearful? Guess its cattle. We have this notion that dogs are man’s best friend, that we need them and they need us, but people always forget that dogs were bred for a purpose, and denying them of that purpose and failing to give them an outlet, is fatally irresponsible. You will either end up with a bad-mannered dog who is acting out in frustration, a bored dog that grows lethargic and depressed over time, or you’ll have to put your animal down because after years of neglect, they act out due to breed standards and do too much, too fast, and hurt someone. As a personal anecdote, my mother (who has worked with dogs for over a decade) was recently attacked for the first time, by an unleashed pit outside her apartment complex. The dog’s owner had his back to my mom and had NO control of his dog - he could have killed my mom. This dog did not stop attacking my mom even when his owner started punching and kicking his dog, he had to wrap his arms around him and pick him up to get him off my mom. The best part is that this dog had a history of offensively aggressive behavior, the owner even had a muzzle for the dog - but thought he knew his dog well enough to take him out without both a leash and the muzzle, and it could have gotten my mother killed. Fuck dog owners, fuck ignorant, uneducated, holier-than-thou dog owners. I’m sure there’s people who will get angry and defensive about the above but it’s real-talk advice. Any medium to large dog can be dangerous. Even some small dogs are dangerous and for that matter even a weak, shallow bite can cause a serious infection, there’s almost no such thing as a 100% harmless dog and that needs to be respected for the dog’s safety and well-being as much as any other people or animals. ONE CORRECTION: Snakes world-wide do cause more deaths than dogs. However, domestic dogs do kill more humans than the rest of those animals. The top four killer species are mosquitoes, fellow humans, snakes, then immediately dogs. Just to add on to these good points here. There is in fact an fenced in, off-leash, dog park at Mt Tabor. Let your dog off the leash there and quit being an asshole. This past summer I was bitten by a dachshund not on a leash in a rest area on the highway. (Yes, you read that right…a dachshund) We were strolling along a path, minding our own business, when three dachshunds charged us from 40 feet away as their owners sat and watched. The dog nipped and barked and got my finger before the owner came over. I could go on about how shitty these owners were, but sticking to the point of the post, you should always keep your dog on leash. It’s your responsibility as a pet owner to manage interactions, not the other way around. Oh there’s nothing unusual about that; nobody takes Dachsunds seriously because they’re the “weiner dogs,” but they’re literally the most aggressive dog breed, my spouse was around hundreds of dogs growing up and only has a scar from a dachsund, which happened clear out of the blue from one they’d known all its life. They were bred to hunt badgers. I took Apollo on a walk in the park on Sunday. Apollo has other-dogs anxiety and can get aggressive, but I KNOW that, so he was on his leash heeling at my left side (because he is very well trained) and I was paying attention. And the one time a dog came close enough to freak him out, I could keep him under control until he calmed down. But we had to take a giant looping detour around SOME GUY whose dog was soooo special he decided it could be off leash running around in the grass. Because I can control Apollo but if some other dog RUNS UP TO US without a leash or an owner, I will not be able to control TWO dogs, and someone is going to get hurt. This is why we have rules! You’re not fucking special! Keep your dog on a fucking leash! Unless you are in an area where offleash dogs are allowed, or you are doing some sort of working job with your dog which requires your dog to be offleash, your dog should ALWAYS be on leash or otherwise completely under your control. My partner is afraid of dogs. Yes, my partner that decided to date me despite the fact that I have very large energetic dogs that train in protection sports, has a phobia of dogs stemming from past trauma from long before I met him. It took him some time, but now he likes MY dogs. And, in part, because my dogs have only been happy and loving to him, well trained and kept controlled, and I made sure that it was him initiating and leading interactions with them until he felt comfortable around them. HE IS STILL AFRAID OF DOGS. He is just okay with my dogs because I made sure to be as respectful as possible to his phobia. If some rando let their dog rush him, jump on him, and lick him on the face, he’d probably curl up into a little ball and scream. Even people who are okay with specific dogs may not be okay with YOUR dog. And it’s not fair to these people who just want to live their lives in peace to be assaulted and provoked and molested by everyone else’s animals. It took him a good 6+ months to relax enough around Creed, my doberman, for him to ask Creed to lick him on the face. He even avoided the chihuahua for several weeks before holding his hand out to say hi. He knew I had dogs going into the relationship and chose to pursue anyway, but that doesn’t make his phobia automatically cured. It would be really great if dog owners could keep their shitty dogs on a leash, but nobody in my area seems to and I have had multiple occasions where their dogs have gone onto my property and tried to slaughter all my chickens. It’s more than just for common courtesy and protecting people, if your dog starts attacking someones livestock you’ll be fined heavily or that dog will get shot- the laws are not in your favor. Livestock owners have every right to protect their livestock from your dog, in any way possible. No matter where you live. This goes for outdoor cats too. As a kid I was attacked by literally every single dog owned by my extended family and I still don’t trust any dog 20 years later because so many of my relatives were terrible at training their dogs. I want to preface this with I’m a dog owner. We’ve always had dogs and I probably always will have dogs. But when I was younger, my family lived in a duplex. If you’re not familiar with a duplex style home, it’s like two homes connected in the middle. We didn’t have a fence separating the two so our neighbors backyard and our backyard were directly connected. One house over was another duplex whose renters had two dogs.They had leashes that they hooked them up to when they had to go to the bathroom because of no fence but 90% of the time they let them out without the leash. letting them do their business and trusted they would come back when called, saying it’s time to come in. I tended to stay away when they let them out just because they were a little territorial and I was very wary of them. But this day I was playing in our sandbox out in the backyard. The neighbor didn’t see me, and I was playing and minding my own business, the dog sees me and starts running right at me. It wasn’t until my mother heard my blood curdling scream from the backyard that anyone knew what was happening. The dog had chased me around the yard until I fell and it immediately started attacking me and I held my arm over my face to protect myself from it’s jaws. The owner starts screaming the dogs name but to no avail and my mother runs out, instinctively grabs a 2x4 that was leaning up against the house and hits the dog with it. After a few swings it let my arm go, my mom immediately picked me up and called the police. The owner grabbed her dog and put him in the house while she was crying and trying to tell my mom that her dog isn’t normally like this and all this other stuff. I vividly remember sitting in my garage, with a huge gash in my arm, crying, watching blood drip onto the concrete. Listening to my mom on the phone with the dispatcher and my dad screaming at my neighbor. I had never seen my father so mad to this day. The dog was a black lab and after this I’m pretty sure the dog got put down because of the owners neglect. I was 6 years old at the time. I still have scars from this incident and I’m 22. Keep your dog on a leash, you might think you know them, they’re your family right? Well just because they’re your family doesn’t mean you have to put someone else at risk. -- source link