Some people should just be shot in the head
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I agree you can't live in a place totally free of crime. People can go anywhere and anything can happen. No outside dog is ever FULLY safe... if someone truly wants to get at them they will. Doesn't mean it's necessarily going to happen... but I personally wouldn't want to take the risk. My dog Cheyanne had a kennel outside that my parents said she had to be in when we weren't home (except in cold or super hot conditions). We used to live in New Mexico right up next to an alley and after the middle school kids got out of school a lot would walk through the alley to get home. My mom was mad at Chey and stuck her outside in the kennel one day and I when I pulled up I saw all the kids in the alley taunting my dog. They had a plastic lawn chair that they had broken up and were throwing at her. She was going completely beserk. All the hard training I'd done with her and they were going to make her competely wary of people. I'll be damned if I didn't run full fledge at those little kids screaming and throwing rocks at them (our front yards were made of rock lol). Those kids were scared S***less. I've never been more mad in my life. My dog had cut herself on the chainlink from jumping at it to get away. That was in a REALLY NICE neighborhood so that just goes to show that your dogs are never FULLY safe.
Well, I don't believe in keeping urban/suburban pet dogs in the backyard, fenced or not, all the time. We have a six foot privacy fence, and as a rule, Sarama is never out there when one of us isn't home (quick runs to the store excluded). But frankly, in terms of no place being safe from crime . . . I'm aware she's technically not safe out there even when I'm home. Not from determined sickos. I assume she'd raise hell if a stranger came into the yard, but maybe not. Its never happened.
Although this woman wasn't being responsible with her dog, I don't feel the reason she wasn't responsible was that someone might steal the dog . . . rather that it wasn't good for the dog and was setting her and the dog up for trouble in the future. Perhaps, in an ideal world, all dogs would spend all their time inside or outside in the constant company of their owners, but honestly, I don't live in that world. I don't think most of us do. The problem here really isn't the owner . . . its the sicko who did this . . . and just as we can only do so much to protect our children and ourselves, we can only do so much to protect our pets as well.
Although this woman wasn't being responsible with her dog, I don't feel the reason she wasn't responsible was that someone might steal the dog . . . rather that it wasn't good for the dog and was setting her and the dog up for trouble in the future. Perhaps, in an ideal world, all dogs would spend all their time inside or outside in the constant company of their owners, but honestly, I don't live in that world. I don't think most of us do. The problem here really isn't the owner . . . its the sicko who did this . . . and just as we can only do so much to protect our children and ourselves, we can only do so much to protect our pets as well.
I missed this thread the first time through.........but I know the story already
I live next to this town, and I actually work in Michigan City. I won't comment to much on the owner.......just know that IMO they WERE NOT people I would entrust an ant farm to.
Very scary and sad thing........and this probably wasn't the first time the guilty party/parties have done such an awful thing, and it probably won't be the last
I live next to this town, and I actually work in Michigan City. I won't comment to much on the owner.......just know that IMO they WERE NOT people I would entrust an ant farm to.
Very scary and sad thing........and this probably wasn't the first time the guilty party/parties have done such an awful thing, and it probably won't be the last
I missed this thread the first time through.........but I know the story already
I live next to this town, and I actually work in Michigan City. I won't comment to much on the owner.......just know that IMO they WERE NOT people I would entrust an ant farm to.
Very scary and sad thing........and this probably wasn't the first time the guilty party/parties have done such an awful thing, and it probably won't be the last
I live next to this town, and I actually work in Michigan City. I won't comment to much on the owner.......just know that IMO they WERE NOT people I would entrust an ant farm to.
Very scary and sad thing........and this probably wasn't the first time the guilty party/parties have done such an awful thing, and it probably won't be the last
Judging from the way my clients who own Pitties are looked at, even when they are conducting themselves responsibly, it's no wonder they are worried that things like this could happen. I advise all my students to keep an eye on their dogs when they are outside, but especially to those who own a "reviled" breed.
Agree that the connection between violence toward animals and humans is very significant. Dahmer & Bundy come to mind...
Agree that the connection between violence toward animals and humans is very significant. Dahmer & Bundy come to mind...