Two stupid, brainless, idiotic creatures stopped their stupid, ugly, idiotic van right in front of my door and decided to sit there with the van door open. They also had a huge dog in there that was obviously neither muzzled nor leashed. Most people seem to think that dog ownership puts them outside the requirements of civility and polite co-existence with humans.
I had no idea about the van, the losers or the dog when I decided to leave the house to take a walk. So I opened the door and saw this enormous creature literally flying at me. Its brainless, idiotic owner was mewling pathetically in the animal’s wake as the brain-dead loser that she is, “Buster, get back. . .” Because animals understand language and really care what their stupid owners want them to do.
I barely had the time to step back and slam the door in front of the beast.
And now imagine what would happen if I were pushing a pram* with a baby in front of me. I would have never had the time to turn around with the pram. Or if I were carrying the baby. Or of the kid ran out first, like kids like to do.
I could have also been disabled or elderly. This vicious thing can easily knock a smaller or a frailer person off her feet.
The two stupid flower-power losers batted their idiotic eye-lashes at me, sang “Sooooorry. . .” and pretended to leash the creature. Of course when I was coming back from my walk, the animal was unleashed again, and the whole scene repeated itself. The freaks drove off fast to avoid the need to explain their behavior.
It was super cool to see all this great female solidarity from two freakazoids who are still young enough to think it’s entertaining to scare pregnant women with dogs.
The are two categories of people who always turn out to be cruel and heartless to the point of complete sociopathy: the vocally and showily religious and the so-called animal lovers.
* I’m stressed out and I’m shaking, so I don’t remember what you call it in the US.
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I am terribly sorry to read that. For me, this story is like a nightmare come true.
“The are two categories of people who always turn out to be cruel and heartless to the point of complete sociopathy: the vocally and showily religious and the so-called animal lovers.”
Agree agree agree.
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I’m trying very hard not to feel any stress while I’m pregnant. I wasn’t stressed out when the 25%-cuts rumor was started. when I was traveling from Europe on an endless flight, when drama at work was unleashed, when the academic year ended, etc. But this was so instant that I was overpowered with stress fast as lightning.
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Its called fight or flight. Damn evolutionary stuff gets us everytime.
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I don’t know, I’m obviously a more evolved life-form than the eyelash-batting freakazoids but I’m still sharing the planet with them.
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I like dogs, as long as they don’t bite me, but I alway get nervous passing a stray dog that’s off leash because I have been attacked and bitten before. I had a panic moment the other day when a golden retriever ran at me as I was sitting on a bench. After a moment’s assessment I decided it was just being playful, but my heart didn’t stop racing for a while.
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Oh jeez – I am so sorry you got scared in such a manner. I hate it when people don’t leash and properly train their animals.
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Thank you!
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pram*
*baby carriage is what I’ve always said, a little long and clumsy but IME theyr’e used a lot less in the US than in europe.
I love dogs, but many humans do not understand them well enough and/or not responsible enough to be entrusted with their care. They think of them as toys (much like some stupid people think of their children as toys).
And the dog isn’t vicious, it’s protective of its environment (which the humans were too stupid to understand and take measures to prevent). Running at you is the dog’s equivalent of a preemptive defensive strike.
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I don’t why people with dogs assume that everyone else will love their dog as much as they do and not mind when it bounds over to you to do god knows what. How did you know it wouldn’t lunge at you and bite because basically you never know with dogs.
I would have been furious with the two irresponsible pathetic little turds too.
The thing that gets me is that when I show annoyance at having a dog bound over and start sniffing me and stamping on my stuff and I tell it to sod off, the owners take offence that I don’t like their sodding mutt.
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“you never know with dogs”
Actually dogs are very, very clear and usually give lots of warning before they actually go into attack mode (most animals do though it takes experience to learn to read the signals. I can read dog signals much more clearly than cat ones because I’ve been around cats a lot less. When it comes to dogs I read medium to large dogs much better than small dogs (and the signals are different for size and/or breed) for similar reasons.
Another problem is that irresponsible dog owners may recognize their dog’s behavior as non-threatening and assume that everyone else can recognize that too, which is clearly not the case.
The problem is almost never with the dog but with irresponsible people.
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Yep – a strange dog off its home territory will generally not jump straight to biting, especially if its owners are not attacking you. Generally they fly at you and start barking in your face waiting for their owners to react. It’s stressful as hell even when you can read the signals, though. The owners are complete prats.
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Or they can simply jump at a person, tear her clothes, salivate all over her, put their paws on her, sniff her. All the while the owners are smiling beatifically and chirping, “She just wants to play!” Like I care what this vermin “wants” in the area that is maintained, in part, with the taxes I pay.
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He he, for the same reason people think everyone will love their spoiled, rude brats. It’s caused by lack of self-reflection and respect for others and overblown feeling of entitlement.
I respect all responsible pet owners and parents, but the operative word here is responsible.
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I am not for unruly children, but sort of equating betwen pet owners and parents bothers me since, in general, often on Internet if people are complaining about dog owners, dog owners start talking about spoiled brats. (I understand L is not one of them.)
A – a child will not kill you or send you to a face reconstructive surgery.
B – a dog can kill you without its owner getting any jail time. And I think owners know it at the back of their minds.
C – Children are not pets and pets are not children, even if some dog owners call them “furry kids.” One’s dog contributes only to them, while children will contribute to me too in my old age.
// Actually dogs are very, very clear and usually give lots of warning before they actually go into attack mode
The warning was bred out of some dog fighting breeds (pits and their mixes), though. And sometimes the dog is too quick and you may notice it only when it’s too late.
I left a comment before from another computer, which is in your spam?
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“Actually dogs are very, very clear and usually give lots of warning before they actually go into attack mode (most animals do though it takes experience to learn to read the signals. ‘
– I don’t know what signs there were because I opened the door and the creature was already flying at me. Besides, I don’t think anybody is entitled to expect me to read signs when all I want is to take a quite walk around the neighborhood. In our county it is illegal to have unleashed dogs running around. But everybody does it. The lack of good manners and civility is just disgusting.
“Another problem is that irresponsible dog owners may recognize their dog’s behavior as non-threatening and assume that everyone else can recognize that too, which is clearly not the case.”
– They can’t recognize anything, It’s all their illusion, just like the belief that the dogs “love” them and “think” something. A dog can love, think, and want just bout as much as my shoe. But at least my show isn’t jumping at anybody. There is a staggering number of cases where the owners think they “understand” an irrational, unthinking organism and believe they have some sort of a dialogue with it (and one has to be really nutso to think that) only to discover that the after 5 years of not biting anybody, the creature goes and bites a person. There is no reason for that. Irrational creatures don’t have reasons or motivations.
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Yeah, I agree dogs are still very unpleasant even without biting. I meant to assuage your fears of being bitten, not dismiss the unpleasantness they can cause. And yes, you shouldn’t be expected to figure out the behaviour of a strange dog because its owners can’t be bothered to restrain it.
I’m not sure I understand the wants and motivations part, though. Animals don’t behave randomly, and I don’t see the problem with calling whatever moves them to purposeful action a want (unless your definition of want refers to stuff that can be consciously noticed/framed in language by the entity wanting). And, while I agree that the people who anthropomorphize their animals don’t understand a thing about those animals, I disagree that an animal’s behaviour can’t be predicted if you both know enough about the animal (both the individual and the species) and observe it. You shouldn’t be expected to do that, especially in split seconds, but it can be done. (oh, and even the people who don’t anthropomorphize their dogs sometimes forget that the way a dog will treat the human family it lives with – aka his pack superiors – will often be vastly different from the way it will treat strange humans).
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“The thing that gets me is that when I show annoyance at having a dog bound over and start sniffing me and stamping on my stuff and I tell it to sod off, the owners take offence that I don’t like their sodding mutt.”
– Oh yes. “She’s just happy to see you!” one especially chirpy dog owner announced to me recently. The possibility that I might not share in the “happiness” never occurred to her.
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I now see why you wanted that mace earlier.
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This happens ALL THE TIME. I already have prison pallor because in this completely crime-free area I’m afraid to leave the house.
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I see they chose a suitable name:
Buster was a dog belonging to Roy Hattersley, a British politician and former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Buster was a mixed-breed dog, as his father was a German Shepherd, and his mother a Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
In 1996, Buster attacked and killed a goose in St James’s Park, London. … while not under Hattersley’s control, and a quick check revealed blood around his muzzle. As the goose was located in a Royal Park, it was the property of The Queen. … Hattersley pleaded guilty by letter, and was fined £25 for letting Buster off the lead (although he claimed that Buster had pulled the lead out of his hand), and £50 for letting him kill the goose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_(dog)
Had this dog looked like one on the picture in wiki?
Like this?
http://www.hdwpapers.com/black_pitbull_wallpaper-wallpapers.html
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No, that one was also hairless but much taller. And with straight legs, not bow legs. That’s as much as I managed to glimpse before I slammed the door shut.
It was a hair’s breadth away from jumping inside the house!
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“only to discover that the after 5 years of not biting anybody, the creature goes and bites a person”
By this criteria human beings are also irrational creatures who can love, think and want just as much as your shoe….
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No, the real criterion – and the only one – is language. Language is the source of these human characteristics. Moogli-like children, for example, cannot be restored to humanity if they are rescued after a certain age. They remain animals. 😦
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