With intent to injure? Sure. But that doesn’t mean that they won’t scratch or bite playfully and, if I’m lucky, only damage my clothing.
Who’s boasting about kicking dogs? The only thing I recall is someone talking about how they’d push away any dog that jumped on them.
Oh look, you’re being a fucking retard again. Haven’t you gotten tired of everyone hating you yet?
Newsflash: I have been bitten by a neighbor’s “playful” dog. You dumb bitch.
Shot From Guns wrote:
Just wanted to point this out. My stance is mixed a bit, as a dog owner myself.
In a nutshell, the ultimate burden should fall on the dog owner. Sure it may seem inappropriate to us dog owners when someone seems to overreact by behaving the way rhubarbarin describes - perhaps going as far as knocking down our beloved fidos. We may not wish to invite someone like her over to our homes any longer, (but I suspect people like she won’t miss the absence of further invitations.)
What I am saying, my point is we can all - as dog owner’s - agree we feel this mentality of getting physical with fido might be overreacting. But the ultimate burden is on us to keep the dog down an off of others, prevent this “overreaction” from occurring.
To us that love dogs, the simple act of a dog jumping up on someone may seem considerably too mild an act to be considered an assault.
But assault it is nonetheless. Especially if the person who is being jumped on, pawed, does not wish it, and is indeed offended by it.
Folks who make absolute statements tend to be, er, somewhat more retarded than average. When you add throwing stones out of a glass house, you really aren’t looking very good here.
Since you didn’t respond to what I said, I’d say that I’m not the dumb one here. Given your posting history and the “First Class Jerk” under your name, I’m not sure that I’m the bitch that you are either.
Wanna try again? 
Kneeing a dog in the chest to keep it off you isn’t kicking it. I’d say those are two different actions, and the words have *very *different connotations (and denotations, for that matter).
Gee, sorry curly. Aren’t you sick of *everyone who matters *hating you yet? Honestly, you have to either be a masochist or a troll.
Actually, I would appreciate someone behaving harshly toward my dog if she jumped up on them. My dogs are well trained, but sometimes exuberance/excitement can take over. The last thing I want is someone tolerating inappropriate behaviour on my dog’s part. A knee to the chest and a harsh “NO” is fine with me.
My husband’s dog, Lucy, loves my husband. She loves him so much that it radiates out her pores and infuses the room in which she inhabits. If she got it into her tiny brain that my husband would like her to jump off a cliff, she would bound joyously towards the nearest cliff and fling herself off, Thelma and Louise style, dying ecstatic in the knowledge that she has pleased her master. Needless to say, she would never try to hurt him.
However, in all her moronic doggy exuberance she has often hurt my husband. Her tail had nailed him the the balls on a number of occasions, she has scratched him with her claws and, on one really hilarious occasion, missed in aiming for the toy they were tug-of-warring with and bit his chest hard enough for her teeth to bruise his pectoral area. Just because this dog doesn’t mean to hurt my husband doesn’t mean she won’t hurt him.
That is why I do not trust dogs. Ever. Dogs are Lenny in “Of Mice and Men”.
PS: When Lucy and I became house-mates I put a stop to her jumping up on people in about a week. All I had to do was step into or out of her trajectory to put her off balance and she learned to stop. Occasionally I put out my knee when she had me cornered. She was never hurt. She has not jumped up on anyone in years.
Clearly you are wrong, mistaken, misremembering, know nothing about dogs, and have never lived with one or even seen one in person. Why are you so stupid?
Yeah, I’ve found many people aren’t offended by people letting their dog or child know in no uncertain terms that their behavior is inappropriate.
I’ve never seen any dog I’ve physically shoved off me show any signs of being in pain from my doing so, and I don’t desire to cause them pain.
I haven’t ever kicked a dog, and wouldn’t unless it was a matter of protecting myself or loved ones (including my dogs) from serious injury.
blink You are saying this?
Wow, talk about a disconnect from reality.
Joke’s on you, dear. People like me. More than one person has said that I’m one of their favorite people here, and the last time someone opened up a Pit thread directed at me, it pretty much turned into a **SFG **love-fest.
So, where are the people claiming *you *as their favorite poster? Where are the Pit threads with people leaping to *your *defense?
And? There have been far more than one person that has said they cannot stand the way you post and called you a troll. Which is why it’s funny that you cast stones at me from your brittle house.
I doubt there is one. Of course, that has nothing to do with your original stupid comments in this thread, which you are trying to get me to forget you made by trying this grade school stuff. If it amuses you to act like a five year old, go ahead but don’t think you are fooling everyone with it.
Welcome to today.
why yes, folks who do not live with companion animals (like my Mom) do not understand their behaviour. That’s why I put my bouncy kittencat in a closed room when Mom comes over: Jasmine has not yet understood that not everyone wants a lapful of cat. Even 7 pounds of Not-One’s-Own-Pet can be annoying.
I do not permit anyone’s dog to jump on me. If one tries, I hold up a knee between me and dog, saying “Down!” I love dogs, pat them whenever I can, and will permit them to lick my face… if all their paws are on the ground. That way, I don’t get muddy pawtographs all over me. No dog owner has ever complained that I was cruel to their dog by holding up one knee… most have apologised profusely.
And none of those people are ones whose opinions I care about.
So, let’s review, shall we?
Me: Loved by worthwhile people. Hated by retards.
You: Hated or–at best–vaguely tolerated by worthwhile people. Tolerated or ignored by retards.
So, I ask again: Why are you still here?
Don’t know if any reason to stay but I like curlcoat.
Huh, I could *swear *I had you mentally tagged as “not retarded.”
Once I was in bed with shorts on playing tug of war with a rope with my beagle. He lunged and missed the rope and chomped down on something that could, ahem, understandably be mistaken for a long, thick rope. Fortunately he didn’t bite down very hard so it wasn’t as painful as it could have been…
To kill time.
And again, you are sidestepping discussing your original stupid comments by continuing with this childish shit. How old are you anyway?
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