Should I ever be insane enough to tap, smack, or beat my (now) 13-year-old Dalmatian she can go and live with him (or Meyer6, or anyone else in general agreement).
And for the record curlcoat, walking my dog was useful training for giving her off-leash road sense. So your claims (somewhere-or-other; hard to find with all my eye-rolling and all the bits I just couldn’t be bothered reading) that walking a dog is for basically no reason at all except to crap if it has no yard, is a view that makes me think you are a cat who can use a keyboard.
Most likely because it’s a non-issue for those who are highly experienced with dogs.
Actually, they didn’t, which you will see when you have time to read what I wrote.
I doubt that I can prove that negative - I’ve been training dogs for over 40 years, and did it professionally for 20+, and my site says nothing about walking dogs. The closest I could come would be to find cites that use walking as part of training, but as you found when searching sites of dog clubs and the AKC, dog walking is so below the radar that it isn’t even mentioned. If you have time, look for Connie Cleveland or Bridget Carlson and read their sites - I don’t know it for a fact, but I’d be very surprised if either one of these nationally known trainers say that all dogs must be walked. (Remember, I did say that I doubted that any trainer would say that all dogs must be walked, not random people on the internet.)
One thing I did find on a quick search is this blurb on dominance myths, on the Assc of Pet Dog Trainers site - it’s the 5th myth down.
Apparently your ability to read is about up there with a cat asleep on a keyboard. What I said, in response to those who claim that all dogs must be walked, was the only reason a dog must be walked is if it doesn’t have a yard to crap in. Everything else that can be done on a walk can be done in another place, in another way. There is certainly nothing wrong with taking a dog on a walk, but there is no reason to insist that all dogs need to be walked, or that those who do not are neglecting their dogs.
Perhaps instead of rolling your eyes and not bothering to read, you should just not say anything so you don’t look like a twit.
Okay, I’ve got to ask: What is a napkin sandwich? Is it a napkin between bread OR is it the filling (you know, like a slice of ham or cheese) wrapped in a napkin instead of bread?
Because I can sort of see the latter coming about. Back in, hmm, maybe the sixties my mother was on a no-carb diet and the thing she really missed was being able to have a sandwich for lunch.
Curlcoat, my sympathies. When I was growing up my family was often on the thin edge, not to that point, but we children couldn’t help noticing the differences between what we had and what our friends did.
Yeah, but it would mean something totally different. Like something having to do with jacking off and or something.
Curlcoat, I have known some hard times that others might think I was just straight making up if I shared it. So, even though I haven’t had it quite that hard, I feel you on that.
“I wanted to give her a Roman Helmet, or maybe a Dirty Sanchez, but she wouldn’t go for it, so we ended up doing the Napkin Sandwich.”
… Something like that?
Nobody thinks she was making it up. We just think she was an idiot for doing it. No doubt influenced by the fact that she was being her usual disgusting, judgmental, sleazebag self in the thread where it first came up.
Thank you both. I didn’t really know any better back then, and I don’t have to live that way now so it’s almost like it was someone else’s life. However, it’s amazing how some people respond to stories like that, such as…
For finding something to eat??
And what is it that you are every time you open your, er, set fingers to the keyboard? Particularly dragging stuff in from another thread that has zero to do with the current subject?
Yeah, I’m not accusing anyone of thinking she made it up. I’m eluding to crazy shit from my own childhood that may seem unbelievable to folks. I didn’t read the thread where it came up. I was only doing a bit of ‘i feel you’ reaching out to another poster. Not taking sides.
ETA: I had to UD ‘Roman Helmut’, but yeah, like that.