Originally Posted by
BWT
I had less strong feelings before I had small children.
Having small children now and knowing how quickly they’d be absolutely overpowered by a dog evokes strong emotions.
I have seen virtue signaling folks who are trying to do a good thing and rescue dogs. My Dad rescued a pit bull. But to be honest, I saw two pit bulls running loose a few weeks ago in my neighborhood. And I think I have a 16 month old walking around in my back yard and it fills my heart with dread because my family plays in the yard.
I just look at it like would you leave a loaded firearm out laying in the front yard? No? Okay, well that loaded firearm isn’t sentient and doesn’t walk around and go exploring or have a bite drive or a chase drive or anything else like that.
I get really frustrated by people that don’t keep their dogs on leashes. Again, it’s not an inanimate object that could be lethal. It’s a animal with capabilities and relying on someone to obedience train/raise their dogs is just more margin than I personally have with a dog than I do when I look at my kids.
I know several people attacked and bitten by dogs. I’ve been chased but wasn’t caught by a family members German Shepherd when I was a small child. Thankfully we got on top of the car before it could get to us.
It just frustrates the crap out of me when people obliviously and uselessly call to their 70-90 lb dog that’s hopping all over us or my kids.
I guess this is mostly venting, but I owned dogs for years, I used to walk dogs as a part time job in high school, etc. I like dogs, but I am just callous to explanations about dogs when they run loose in the neighborhood. Also, just keep control of your animal. LE/Mil keeps their K9’s on leashes and those dogs are worth tens of thousands and have years of training and daily reinforcement of that training. I’m just exasperated with people’s excuses and ideology.
Alright, I’m done.