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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close
Posted by: Dan Murphy
Date/Time: 19/08/15 09:52:00

Colin, it's different worlds I'm afraid. Your are right about the anthropomorphism - as soon as someone refers to a dog as their baby, or their "little man", you know there's no point (it also raises interesting questions about the psychology, but that's another topic).

I was talking to a dog owner recently, and they were explaining that the problem with many people is that they haven't been trained properly in how to approach / interact with dogs when out in public. Some children and adults think they can simply walk up to a strange dog and stroke it, and then get upset if that dog suddenly bites them. For her, the problem was that everyone out there should get proper training in how to interact with dogs, NOT that some dog owners had potentially dangerous dogs out in public that might just bite a child if they suddenly felt like it.

This is the difference that can never be breached. Some dog owners think that their dogs are due the same level of consideration and care that we afford small children. This is why they call them their "babies" and "little boys", they do indeed equate the two.

And oh, woe betide you if you challenge them on this and say no, your dog is an animal and should be kept under strict control when in a public place. If it is likely to jump up at people, uninvited, then it should be on a lead or you should have it trained NOT to do that. If it is likely to bite some innocent adult or child who strokes it, or simply gets too close, then it should be muzzled to protect the public. We recently had a chap on here who cheerfully complained about some cyclist who happened to walk too close to his dog which ("understandably") reacted and bit the cyclist. In his view, the cyclist was an aggressive idiot who should have known better than to get anywhere near his dog. In my view, that dog should have been taken away and put down immediately.

But there's no talking to these people. Their dogs are their babies, and that's it. We are all supposed to work around it, even to the point earlier today where if we don't want to be approached by strange dogs in Chiswick House we should stay away from the areas where dog owners go.


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Fuming doesn't even come close 18/08/15 22:22:00 Victoria Bridges
   Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 18/08/15 22:28:00 Loraine Pemberton
      Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 18/08/15 22:32:00 Ken Munn
         Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 18/08/15 22:39:00 Victoria Bridges
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 18/08/15 22:54:00 Loraine Pemberton
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 18/08/15 22:57:00 Victoria Bridges
   Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 18/08/15 23:00:00 Kirsten Donovan
      Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 18/08/15 23:09:00 S Powell
         Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 18/08/15 23:42:00 Victoria Bridges
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 01:18:00 Claire Moran
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 05:48:00 Dan Murphy
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 09:28:00 Colin Jordan
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 09:52:00 Dan Murphy
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 09:54:00 Loraine Pemberton
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 10:03:00 Richard Greenhough
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 10:10:00 Loraine Pemberton
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 10:19:00 Claire Moran
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 12:32:00 Dan Murphy
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 12:35:00 Dan Murphy
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 12:42:00 Keith Iddon
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 12:53:00 Peter Millman
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 13:03:00 Dan Murphy
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 13:03:00 Richard Greenhough
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 10:23:00 bobby osborne
                                 Re: And the winner of the Wooden Spoon is.....19/08/15 10:32:00 Loraine Pemberton
                                    Re:Re: And the winner of the Wooden Spoon is.....19/08/15 10:38:00 bobby osborne
                                       Re:Re:Re: cloven hooves (see Bull thread).....19/08/15 12:18:00 Stuart Kerr
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re: cloven hooves (see Bull thread).....19/08/15 14:14:00 Victoria Bridges
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: cloven hooves (see Bull thread).....19/08/15 15:27:00 Dan Murphy
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: cloven hooves (see Bull thread).....19/08/15 16:37:00 Victoria Bridges
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: cloven hooves (see Bull thread).....19/08/15 17:32:00 Dan Murphy
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re: cloven hooves (see Bull thread).....19/08/15 18:12:00 Victoria Bridges
                                                         use the lead20/08/15 14:40:00 Alan Clark
   Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 18:16:00 Claire Moran
      Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 18:51:00 Keith Iddon
         Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 19:01:00 Richard Greenhough
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 19:16:00 Claire Moran
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 19:17:00 bobby osborne
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 19:23:00 Keith Iddon
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 20:30:00 Brian Coyle
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 20:41:00 Claire Moran
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 20:48:00 Georgina Flint
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fuming doesn't even come close 19/08/15 20:52:00 Victoria Bridges

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