Some People's Children…
Irradiated by LabRat
Don’t you think it would be the sort of thing that parents would teach children that it’s dangerous to provoke strange dogs in other people’s yards? I was just out seeing what on earth Kang could be barking at- as she never barks, except in cases of snakes, trespassers, or Jehovah’s Witnesses- and found a couple of uterine dumplings climbing on our fence, peering over it at the strange never-before-seen wolflike creatures in someone’s YARD. Clearly an unprecedented thing.
Look, my dogs like kids and recognize the difference between them and adults, and I don’t think they (the idiot children) would have been bitten- the dogs’ reaction was more consternation than real aggression, as it probably would have been for a similarly foolhardy adult stranger.
Still, though, they are guard dogs, and even if they weren’t, lots of dogs are both territorial and not necessarily thrilled by children. Shouldn’t it be a useful damn lesson to teach children that you never, ever do this?
September 24th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
“Shouldn’t it be a useful damn lesson to teach children that you never, ever do this?”
Their parents are probably the type that think it takes a village to raise their kids.
September 24th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Need an intervention over here. Sting is trying to use …. logic… yeah, I think that is what it is called…
September 24th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
jck: I know bitching about kids is usually my domain, but this one is all LabRat.
September 24th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Much as I hate stupid people, without them I would not have a job.
September 24th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
If it weren’t for the risk to the dogs from the repercussions, I’d say let them into someone’s yard and learn the lesson
September 24th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Keepbreathing,
OMFG! ROTFLMAO! And a hundred other acronyms.
I have always taught my kids that a “dog” is not always a “happy puppy”.
And…. YOU DO NOT GO INTO THE NEIGHBOR’S YARD…. uninvited! EVAR!
But, that’s just me.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:51 am
This is when the 12 ga. loaded with halite teaches that lesson well.
September 25th, 2008 at 7:51 am
I agree w/BobG…some people are infuriating.
September 25th, 2008 at 8:44 am
That drives me nuts. When I’m out walking my dogs (GSD and a large Lab), I either get kids who just run up to my dogs to pet them, which requires me to put both dogs in a heel and ask the child to ask permission first (why the parent hasn’t told them no yet I’ll never know, but I’ve been scolded by parents for telling their kid to not run up to my dog, and if my dog is so dangerous I should have them out in public), or I get kids who want to scare or hit my dogs (and the parents do nothing).
September 25th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Kinda like the time I had taken my tripod Greyhound into town one evening for an ice cream cone. I left her in the car while I went up to the ice cream stand.
I looked back to see a human larva banging on my car window trying to tease the dog. When I told the parent to control her child, she said in a snotty tone, “Why? Does it bite?”
“No, but I do.”