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JFC

Your brain makes me laugh.

Your buddy's dog sounds like a sweetheart!

I can see the ad in the paper:

"Free dog! Has outgrown his home. Great with kids!

DO NOT pet!!"


lol

Got one in the neighborhood I'm gunning for now.





No. But one had a bad experience with me.





Same here. Don't make your mutt my problem. They don't have to causing havoc. Schitting in my yard is enough to get them fed to the ravens and magpies.

I've had 3 cocker spaniels. 2 were the most low key easy going lovable dogs ever. This 3rd one has a screw loose. He's great with the core family, but all bets are off with strangers especially kids. He walks in counter clockwise circles all day- probably at least a 1000 a day. For the most part hes ok with strangers as long as you ignore him, but watch out if you get in his face or try to pet him unexpectedly.

Whenever people come to the house to work on stuff, i tell them to watch out or he will bite. Partly because it could be true and partly because any thoughts of coming back at another time when we are not home are vanquished.

He's only bitten one kid and not badly. The mom was feeding the dog while we were gone and we told them to keep the kid away but they didn't listen. When he flips out he sounds like the devil dog-rabid, ferral and insane all at once.

Also has little man syndrome when it comes to other animals. We got a cat recently and to my surprise he hasn't killed it. They do ok now but every once in a while he flips out on it.

Yes.

As an animal control officer in the 1990's, I found that shows were a breed I would not trust. Same for sharpei, akita, pitbull, Staffordshire, etc. All so include poorly bred and trained german shepherds and Rottweiler and labs.

Never heard that about rottweikers, but did hear that about Dobermans.

Why is that dog alive?

I have never understood the mentality that holds that it is perfectly all right for dogs to bite people.

No doubt.

Bitey dogs have a place. It is not around children.

I work on irrigation and sprinkler systems in peoples yards all summer. People tend to think all their dogs are fine. They are not. I trust no dog unless I know it well. Most common biters here are healers and other small to medium size dogs. I do not have much experience with Pits, Rottweilweiler or shepherd types , because I call the owner and tell them I do not work in yards with dogs, so you have to put them up. Digging in a valve box at ground level puts you at a decided disadvantage. One thing I have noticed is since I got my rat terrier other peoples dogs act more defensively towards me. My 25 lb rat must smell aggressive....... Children should never be left with any dogs ,when we were little my cousin got his bottom lip torn most of the way off by a 10 year old beagle that would normally not harass its own fleas.... Because children do not always make wise choices.

Thanks 1minute , guess I didn't look around town closely enough .

I could live somewhere like Burns/Hines .

...nor any law-abiding people.

My cousin raised a rottweiler from a puppy, typical family dog. It was 6yo when it attacked her, taking a chunk out of her thigh.

Much of it is a form of Russian roulette, with the barrel pointed at someone else.

rather have a cocker biting me than a pit...

We know what we got and act accordingly. I think he's mostly a fear biter/ false aggressive. all hat and no cattle you might say. Great dog for the core family. He's old and deaf now.

He gets put up when strangers are around. You get a puppy and get invested in them before you know too much about them. If it was a big breed diff story. Any highly inbred species can me subject to mental or physical problems.

Living in cattle country, I have been nipped by an occasional heeler. I never have seen one of the sneaky bastards actually attack a person, but I am sure they are capable of such.

I watch heelers like a hawk. But one second of distraction and the little bastard will come up behind and get your ankle. It would probably hurt if a guy was in tennies or loafers. So far, the bite has always landed on my cowboy boots or loggers.

The little schitts will be gone and under someone's truck before you can spin around to address the issue. If the dog can avoid the flying hooves of 1000 range cows, there is little chance that I can lay a boot on his sneaky butt.

When I was a kid, my uncle had a Blue Heeler for a cattle dog. He would go out and bring in the milk cows from the pasture when it was time to milk.

He was smart that way but that damn thing used to knock us kids down from behind all the time and hump the crap out of us!

I hated that dog! lol

Kid I grew up with had 200 stiches in his face, quite the scars from a chow when he was 3yo. Years later and his birthday party, I think we were 12 or so, the same kids black lab attacked him in front of all of us. His father got the dog off in time before it got real bad. Guess there was just something about him.