Dog issue

We can give them weed to mellow them out a bit. Would that help?

 

What's the respectful way to treat yourself after a night of making whoopie with IJAG?


Hey-O!

 

jeez.... didn't mean to kill the thread...

 

Enter the dog into a couple of fights. If it loses, you're golden. If it's victorious, you can afford the training.

It's a win-win.

 

The 15-year-old dog issue is one thing (one of ours will be facing the declining stage soon), but the training of the aggressive one is quite another. It's possible the dog is evil, although highly doubtful. You owe it to the animal and your family to find a couple of hundred bucks for an off-site training program.

 

Best post in the thread.

Angola, I'm sure your heart is breaking at the thought of having to put your dog down. I don't look forward to the day I have to consider such a decision.

Printdust, if you don't have the time or the money to train a dog, don't get a dog. You made a commitment to that dog. Own up to it.

 

Printdust could have a movie screening for his daughter....

 

I'll train him.

 

Amazing how people jump to judge here, knowing only what printdust has told us about the dog. Hell, people jumped on Angola, too, before hearing the entire situation.

This animal is apparently chasing neighborhood kids. We don't really know just how threatening the dog is. Is the problem partially printdust's fault for letting the dog get that way? Most likely. But he has to deal with the situation now and it sounds very much to me like he has bigger problems to handle in his life.

Not to mention the small chance that this dog is just nuts. I grew up around dogs. We had them my whole life and my parents knew how to train them. Then we got a female Doberman. She was just nuts. Literally, something was wrong with her. My parents hoped she would calm down when she grew up, but it wasn't happening. My brother and I were fairly small and this was a Doberman, so my parents finally decided they had to protect us first and gave her away.

We found a breeder to take her, somebody who been around Dobermans all his life. He managed to calm her down a little (I'm sure being around little kids in my house didn't help), and bred her. Big mistake. She killed the entire litter and turned on the owner. The vet he took her to found out she had some swelling in her brain and wasn't going to get any better, so they put her down.

I understand the guy asked for opinions, but perhaps slightly more open minds might be in order.

 

Yeah, stop offering opinions when they're solicited, and stop basing those opinions on the information provided by the person soliciting the opinions!

 

Apparently some of us can't tell the difference between offering an opinion and condemning the guy.

 

Take it easy. Just joshing.