How can I stop my GS from barking aggressively at my father?

[chelle]

Well it is what it is. I'm sorry for everyone involved. It could not have been easy. I'm glad your mother is coming home soon. Honestly, who knows if it was actually a brain tumor, but it doesn't matter now. RIP to the dog and even more importantly, your mom can come home without the stress and worry.

[sparra]

Originally Posted by chelle

Well it is what it is. I'm sorry for everyone involved. It could not have been easy. I'm glad your mother is coming home soon. Honestly, who knows if it was actually a brain tumor, but it doesn't matter now. RIP to the dog and even more importantly, your mom can come home without the stress and worry.

Yeah...well said chelle

[Jack's Dad]

Originally Posted by katieliz

oh and btw jack's dad, in a truly civilized society all creatures are shown compassion. compassion, in the world today (as well as on this board at times), is in very short supply. there are many who speak for children and elders, and frankly many times children and elders can speak for themselves. i do not put animals BEFORE elders and children but i have CHOSEN to SPEAK FOR THE ANIMALS and if that makes me a zealot, then hear me when i say I AM PROUD TO BE ONE.

Well katieliz maybe you can show a little compassion for me for sticking up for an eighty nine year old woman. She will now have to suffer through rehab of a broken hip for what I believe should never have happened. Frankly the whole situation is sad and there are no winners here.

[codmaster]

Amen!

[katieliz]

andy compassion is sorrow for the sufferings of another. i have compassion for all who have suffered here, animal and human alike, but although i do respect your right to your opinions, i'm not sure how i would show compassion for you, since i can't see how you've suffered here. i respect everyone's right to their opinion and you will never, ever see me here calling names or disrespecting others.

and i also agree that the broken hip should never have happened. the responsibility lies with the owner who could have protected both the dog and his parents. trip and falls are incredibly common in the elder population, when you are the caretaker of an elder you have to assume the responsibility of managing animals and balls and toys and really everything in your home environment to assure that accidents don't happen. everyone was so quick to assume that the owner was some ner do well that was sponging off his parents and that turned out to be completely wrong, this was his home and his environment and animal to responsibly manage. up to and including a humane trip to the bridge, if indeed the aggression was genuine and/or a physiologic health issue. i do even show compassion for the op in that regard tho, some people cannot face the euthanasia of an animal and need to believe that turning it in to a facility will somehow spare it's life, when in fact it is almost certainly a death sentence, most times in cruel and unspeakable ways. most people don't even know there are still gas chambers or what heartstick euth is. i am allowing myself to believe that wherever this dog was euth'd they were more humane. bless his heart.

[codmaster]

Some folks have very different opinions vis a vis humans vs animals.

A very very sad story with someone having to make a MOST difficult choice. Hopefully no one should have to make this type of choice.


Sort of like that oft repeated choice in an ethics class - if you can only save one? - would it be your wife or your mother, first child or second one, etc. etc.

Impossible choice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[katieliz]

i reply here again in hopes that it might help someone prevent the injury to a human or the death of an animal in the future.

please. this is not an issue of either/or, or of impossible choice, or of what has more value a human or an animal. this is an issue of personal responsibility.

it's much, much less likely that anyone will have to make this choice if they manage their animals responsibly, in all situations possible, taking into account their personal situation and lifestyle, particularly when the environment is somewhere they have total control over. the responsibility for the fall was not the dog's.

accidents do happen. much less often if thought is given to possible consequences and care is taken to assure that they don't.