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good morning all,
I was just at my aunts place. Both of my aunts have long been doberman people. I always remember wanting to go play with the big dobes when I was a kid. Seeing as how they both live close and I have always loved dogs, I have been dobersitting anytime they needed me too for years.
This morning I was walking doofus (yes thats his name) and some lady from across the street started raving at me about "...killer dog gonna eat some children....blah blah blah...liability laws...blah...you should go to jail when your dog kills someone..blah blah...blah."
So I told doofus to down stay and then go belly up ( we call it dead bug) and said my standard response to people like that: "Don't worry he's cool for now...I just fed him his breakfast baby so the bloodlust should be under control. for now."
Sadly Its not the first time some poor ignorant person has verbally assailed me on the street while walking a dobe. No one bothers when I walk my border collie mix. Lame as it is I, and both my aunts, realize its going to happen again. Its really not their fault as these people are obvious either terribly misinformed or irratitonaly biased against dobes.
I don't even try to change their minds or reason with them as I prefer to just have a very well behaved dog do the convincing for me, and both my aunts have their dobes super well trained. I tend to just issue a command to the dog, say one of my generic super sarcastic responses and keep moving.
How do ya'll respond when someone says something like that re: your GSD? It probably doesn't happen as much as with my aunts dobes, but I'm sure it still happens. thanks,
-c
I was just at my aunts place. Both of my aunts have long been doberman people. I always remember wanting to go play with the big dobes when I was a kid. Seeing as how they both live close and I have always loved dogs, I have been dobersitting anytime they needed me too for years.
This morning I was walking doofus (yes thats his name) and some lady from across the street started raving at me about "...killer dog gonna eat some children....blah blah blah...liability laws...blah...you should go to jail when your dog kills someone..blah blah...blah."
So I told doofus to down stay and then go belly up ( we call it dead bug) and said my standard response to people like that: "Don't worry he's cool for now...I just fed him his breakfast baby so the bloodlust should be under control. for now."
Sadly Its not the first time some poor ignorant person has verbally assailed me on the street while walking a dobe. No one bothers when I walk my border collie mix. Lame as it is I, and both my aunts, realize its going to happen again. Its really not their fault as these people are obvious either terribly misinformed or irratitonaly biased against dobes.
I don't even try to change their minds or reason with them as I prefer to just have a very well behaved dog do the convincing for me, and both my aunts have their dobes super well trained. I tend to just issue a command to the dog, say one of my generic super sarcastic responses and keep moving.
How do ya'll respond when someone says something like that re: your GSD? It probably doesn't happen as much as with my aunts dobes, but I'm sure it still happens. thanks,
-c