Bad Morning - Page 4

Ah!

The Jack Russell...............

The first & only breed of dog I have had the pleasure of getting bit by...

Two at once, one bit me in the front of my leg that was the first mutt and then the mutt
standing behind me took a bite, I knocked on her door, I was delivering mail & she needed
to sign for a letter, I didn't even make any fast moves.

The lady was actually a breeder of these little pieces of crap......

There was also a big black lab walking around near me, he was very friendly,
thank GOD!

Ah.....memories.............................

I really like Blitzen's approach,

jump around & look crazy,

I think that could come naturally to me

I like the way the neighbors want to pick up their dogs & run away!

It reminds me many years back, before the high fence with the gate that locks,

some Jehovah witnesses came walking in my yard & started preaching, my son
a teenager at the time, just started chopping things with an axe & making funny
noises, I just couldn't contain myself, not to mention, they didn't stay very long.......

Steve1, my comments were not directed at you at all, but were in reply to singsomemoresam's nonesense.  You certainly have the right to protect yourself and your dogs when you walk on a public road or sidewalk and use a leash.  I recommend using a measured appropriate response.  Here's the method I have used.

When I used to walk my young dogs in an area where folks didn't leash their dogs, I always carried a can of pepperspray with a 15 foot spray range, and a 10 pound steel topped walking cane with a spike at the bottom.  No dogs ever kept on coming past the narrow stream of pepperspray directed at them.  They hated that stuff.  If they had I also carried a small cattle prod too. I was walking a young puppy once and a big mutt came out teeth bared and was going to bite me, not my puppy.  He stopped and turned the second he got hit with the pepper stream in the face, put his tail between his legs and ran back home.  From then on when he even saw me coming he would put his tail between his legs and head for home. Even if he wasn't disciplined, he was fairly intelligent.

It always shocked me how many folks didn't care for their dogs and would let them run loose causing trouble in the neighborhood, violating leash laws, tipping over garbagecans, harassing other owners walking their dogs, and even getting hit by cars.  And it appeared that most of these dogs weren't fed well or cared for very well either.  These same folks didn't discipline their own kids either. Very sad indeed.  Uninformed, ignorant, uncaring dog owners are almosts as bad as uninformed, ignorant, uncaring and greedy amateur dog breeders.  

Steve1,

Good for you! I've been trying to tell some of the 'purists" on this site about the advantage of long hair on GSD's. I had a situation a few years back when a twenty-something dumb ass set his large white pit bull loose on my two long haired GSD's. My big one beat the pit off the jump. He went low before the pit could get underneath him and he pinned the pit's upper body to the ground like it was nailed with spikes. My other long hair jumped on the back of the pit and was dining on his neck. The owner freaked and yelled for mine to get off of his hapless terrier. What he didn't know was mine had three years of intensive protection training and to them this was like recess in the yard at prison. Just another day in the life of two lifers. And the reason neither of mine got hurt was their training and their long hair. So more power to you and your pup.

MaxVonPotterdam

Did Blitzen actually recognize the fact that long hair is a useful, desirable, advantageous trait on a GSD? A few months ago she was enumerating the reasons why this was a definite No No on the breed. Guess there might be room in this ever shrinking world for a GSD that's not an AKC show dog, a West German show dog, or a DDR working dog. Learn something new every day. Stay tuned sports fans there's updates every hour! I don't carry mace, a bat, etc... because other people's dogs are quick to charge my two but quicker to call it quits when mine show their grills. We keeps it real up in this joint, real sharp! And it's always a stupid terrier or spaniel that ventures into the street when we go walking. They may as well jump a lowland gorilla - same result, a big can of whoop ass.

MaxVonPotterdam

Can't fix stupid, 4 pack.

So, 4pack, according to you all Long Hairs are over sized rejects of the Breed

They may be rejected for 'Breeding 'by the powers to be, but where does the over size come into anything

My Pup sure is not over sized in fact the opposite

and one thing is very sure to me is that my  Pup has more brains, than you have got in that over sized empty head of yours, with those sort of remarks

You need to grow up and start to fill that head of yours with some knowledge which is benificial to the breed.

Steve

Stevie 1 dur,

I think you might want to re read what 4 pack posted in regards to Max's big bad fight dawgs.

How is a Europe these days?  You can thank America later ;)

RPK

Rat Pack king.

Europe is Fine the USA on its knees we here Man for Man size of country, its no conest the USa would Bow down to superioers, More so when they have Arrogant fools like you  shouting off the big mouths, Put your Money where your mouth is Come over and find out if you think we are inferior. I met some of your people over here in the 60's at the USa Greenham Base, The Big Mouths turndc out as i expected

The civil quiet Guys got on well they were the Proffesionals, not the Mouthy ones. You have not yet won any War to my Knowledge,

Started plenty thats easy, Keep Wars out of the Forum, and how good you people are because things have a habit of back firing, and i doi not mean with guns as you well know and the other fellow can answer for himself

Steve

steve1 I wasn't speaking to you or about your dogs. MVP is an idiot that is all gung ho about letting his dogs go at it with street mongrels and his neighbors pets. If he has such anger management issues he should go swing at the loose dogs owners and plop his own rear in jail, to keep his dogs free and out of harms way. His swaggering does nothing for the breed and YES 140lb GSD's sre grossly over sized and he loves to brag on how hairy and huge his dogs are. I wonder sometimes if it's really his dogs he is braging on?