Dame Aussie

So she follows and licks them? I think if that's their only issue they need to thank their lucky stars. You say she's an airhead, to me it sounds like they just don't like her as much as the first dog and they're better off rehoming her. Poor girl just wants to be with them.

Our two little Chi x's would howl in unison whenever the phone rang :laugh:

Bit of Ridgie/SBT maybe? I second the Whippet possibilty too.... she's gorgeous whatever she is.

I don't have children but I don't treat my dogs like children, they are everything to me but they are not child substitutes. I don't think its as simple as that though anyway. Nurturing is nurturing, some people prefer dogs to children so they use those nurturing instincts on the dog. I don't think that makes them strange or ill, I think it's just them. I would be more worried about someone who didn't show any affection for anyone OR anything rathar than just preferring one species over another. This is the thing, we are all just animals, humans consider themselves to be top of the food chain, more important than any other species due to their intelligence and staning in the world, that's just how we are, but not all of us are like that. Doesn't mean we're screwed up.

Firstly the officer is armed with a gun. Surely he didn't have to shoot as early as he did? Assuming the brindle dog did pull up short, why couldn't the officer using his gun for protection(or possibly pull out his pepper spray as an extra option/alternative) try and remove the beagle from the situation? As i've said in my previous posts, its impossible to conclusively judge the situation on that footage alone, but based soley on that footage, i would have thought there were other options. p.s if you read through my posts on other threads you will see i have also been critical of a bullbreed(alledged) for ripping a greyhound apart, much to the disgust of some of these other posters who like to talk down their nose at you But if the dog didn't pull up it would have been too late is what I'm getting at. It's easy for us in hindsight to pick the video apart but in a real situation where the officer clearly felt in danger, I can't really blame him. I do concede that pepper spray, if available, would have been my weapon of choice over the gun.

Thanks - but it turns out I am having PC probs and the YouTube video clips are skipping pieces/running haltingly. I suspect this is why this video footage didn't appear as it seems to have done to everyone else. Ah ok, Sorry I wasn't meaning to be rude Erny :)

Thanks for posting Sheridan, my OH is Irish and I just told him about it and he's excited Will be looking forward to seeing this!

I love bull breeds, I got narky recently in a thread about them if you need something to prove I'm not biased. :laugh: I really am interested as to what other people would have done? Would you have let the dog keep "playing" with the beagle? When that dog ran at you (and it did run, anyone saying it didn't is clearly having issues with their sight), would you have stood there and waited for it come over and have a cuddle? Do you realise that wiaintg that minute or so could mean a full scale attack? Yeah, maybe it wouldn't have been but how many of us would be willing to take that chance? And more so, why should the officer have to? What are all these other options??

Babies are very noisy a lot of the time, and smelly a lot of the time and are pretty boring. They can't speak, they can't move properly and do nothing for me. But you say I am shallow because I can't find anything to appreciate in other people's babies? What can babies do that is so good? They cannot do any of the things that make adults appealing and good to be around. They don't even have a personality, they just have moods and impulses that they don't control. I think it is shallow when hormones take over parents' brains and suddenly this weak, noisy, smelly, boring, greedy thing is suddenly more important than anything and anyone else in the world. There is nothing appealing to me about babies, they are grotty, loud and annoying.Your affection is all in your head, and caused by the hormones designed to keep the species alive. Like a dog acting on its instincts to bury a bone, there is no deeper intellectual basis for you liking your baby, or you having a shot at the people that don't. Brilliant post GM

Ditto http://www.dolforums.com.au/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif[/img Me too....the horror!!

:laugh: That's adorable!!

OH is in love with them and wants one as our next dog. I don't know a lot but from what I've hard/read they can be quite similar to Bullmastiffs. They're beautiful looking dogs!!

Great response and very interesting you described rebus exactly in part of that he has no manners with others dogs and never has and yet he has been to dog school since a pup so always been around other dogs, he really is terrible it is something we are working in with my dog trainers. If he sees another dog when we are out he is just totally focused in it and it's so hard to break that focus. Fingers crosses we'll get there eventually! Yes, our Mosley is like this too. He just LOVES other dogs. He pulls on his lead and cries, he is very good when playing, gentle etc with smaller dogs, but he is big and it's something we're constantly working on, and thank goodness, have seen improvement. He also went to puppy school, obedience training etc but has always been like this. Lili, she's easy, couldn't care less :laugh:

I think I am pretty good at reading dog behaviour, although there is a lot I don't know and there are some very knowledgeable people on here which is why I love the place, I donlt think we ever stop learning....I agree that whether or not the dog was going to harm the officer, it was definitely charging towards him and it hardly looked friendly. I would have preferred the officer do something other than shoot, but really, he doesn't get paid enough to risk his life because said dog may be "just playing".

I can't say I dislike chocolate, but I could live without it. I know. I'm broken :laugh: Give me anything salty though

You should be able to expect that a normal, adult, male/obese/whoever, can act like a calm adult. Regardless, if the person smelt really bad or threw up in their lap or something, I'd consider it within my rights to quietly find a hostess/host and ask to be moved! Sheesh! Babies and very young children are generally unpredictable in that regard, and are also not capable of reasoning. Discrimination my butt if someone doesn't want to sit next to a baby. :laugh: I don't see anywhere in my post where I mentioned the behavior of an obese person/male person? Not really sure where you pulled that from? I read it as defining a big difference in the behaviour of the young child/baby, and the male/obese person you mentioned in your post. ie: babies are more likely to be loud and smelly.

Fabulous post!

Considering men are not allowed to be seated next to children on their own I'd say there's already a bit of discrimination going on.

I haven't seen it, but I want to now!! Is it on youtube?

It's like a train wreck, just....can't....look....away..... :laugh:

I think they should be able to. My Aussie was advertised here and also on the trading post which is where I saw her. If we restrict advertising, so many people who don't know the difference between buying from a BYB or a good breeder may not get the chance to see these well bred dogs. I didn't know DOL existed till then.

:laugh: Maybe, it's quite entertaining though :laugh:

Don't even bother :laugh:

But it's not about children, it's about your problem with a woman who didn't want to sit next to your child. IMO, it is a problem when the dog has no manners, jumps up on visitors, gets talked to as though it's a human and understands them, gets a huge long monologue about why it's not allowed on the couch unless "Mummy" isn't at home, is allowed to beg at the dinner table when guests are trying to eat without being licked or if you're trying to have a conversation and the dog feels left out and starts barking. NOT acceptable dog behaviour - and shouldn't be allowed. This same dog was also allowed to hang around even after knocking a little 2 year old boy who was visiting! The kid was crying his poor little eyes out! And the dog's "parents" didn't even care These are my close friends but I really dislike their "parenting" techniques. I lived with them for 3 months and while I was there I did a bit of training the dog, teaching her to sit when people come in the door (sometimes works - bit hard when there's no consistency), to drop (which is handy when she's trying to eat your food when you're sitting on the lounge....) Oh and the kicker. It's a super energetic BC X Blue Heeler who doesn't get walked, living in suburbia. kept inside most of the time. (When I was living there, I let her outside in the back yard to let some steam off and they got home from work and asked why she was outside? Poor baby...) So that's my beef with dogs who get treated like children. Okay, but my comment was about people who have issues with strangers humanising dogs. Your issue is with your friends. Do you really care if I or anyone else on DOL that you don't know humanises their dog? You don't know us, it doesn't affect you personally, so why let it bother you? Exactly. No-one I know likes rude dogs, but if someone you don't even know or spend time with decides they want to treat their dog like a child what's it got to do with you or anyone else? This thread is nuts :laugh:

If someone cannot have children and decides to get a dog and treat it with as much importance as they would have done with a child, what is so bad about that? ...um...because they are a dog, not a child. People make a big deal out of not andromorphing (sp? humanising) animal behaviour on this forum. I think treating a pet as a child AND also feeling a dislike towards children, could be unhealthy. As far as humanising pets I think it is is a 'biggie' in this area. Again, just my personal opinion. But how does the way someone else thinks of their dog affect you in any way?