"Terri" <Terri@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "tiny dancer" <tinydancer357@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Oh I didn't mean 'trust them' alone with the cat. I simply
>> meant acclimate them to the cat with the hopes that it would
>> become a familiar entity around here. And they'd knock off
>> this wild barking and carrying on because they know the cat
>> is accepted. By me. It wouldn't be this mysterious, off limits
>> *thing*. It would simply be 'the cat.'
>
> I wouldn't count on that,
You mean just goin by your own POSTED CASE HISTORY, meat terri?
> I'm sorry to say.
Perhaps you should say it on alt.religion.kibology and
spare yourself the EMBARRASSMENT of postin your
dismal failure with dogs an kats an children here?
> I had my cat prior to my two previous Sheps
> and they were pups when I got them.
So you shoulda had NO PROBLEMO makin them PALS, eh, meat terri?
> After Harley cat swiped them on the nose
You mean you didn't know HOWE to introduce them safely?
> they were mortal enemies for life.
That's curiHOWES, bein as dogs is "SO FORGIVIN", eh, meat terri?
> There never was a time when, if they saw her anywhere
> at all, they'd not chase her with intent to kill.
Oh, you mean JUST LIKE HOWE your dogs interact
with your grandkids, YOU PATHETIC MISERABLE
STINKIN ROTTEN LYIN ANIMAL MURDERIN
CHILD ABUSIN PUNK THUG COWARD ACTIVE
ACUTE CHRONIC LIFE-LONG INCURABLE
MALIGNANT MALICIHOWES MENTAL CASE?:
"Terri" <Terri@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> how is this for utterly tragic?
And to follow up to that I'm going to mention something
exactly like this that came close to happening with my own
dogs once.
When Hailey was 6 months old the kids came down to
Lousiana to visit us. My dogs had met Hailey's mom
once and they had known my son since they were pups
and were perfectly fine with them.
But I already knew the Sheps weren't socialized well to
small children and didn't trust them, except for Taffy and
this was after we'd suddenly learned of Mojo's deep dog
aggression and had viewed it first hand along with his
incredible speed just how serious he could be about it.
Hailey was in the playpen in the front room, I was in the kitchen
just 8-10 feet away. There was a small passthrough window
and a high counter top that allowed me to see over it into the
living room. I had previously warned the kids that I didn't care
for the way the Sheps acted around young children and told them
*not* to leave Hailey unnattended around them for _any_ reason.
Towards the end of the week they apparently had grown
complacent because I looked up from the kitchen into the
living room where I could see Hailey but the Sheps had
gone to the playpen and they were growling at her in that
playpen like she was suddenly a strange new animal in
their home.
I realized the kids had walked into the back of the
house for just a moment and the minute they did,
the dynamics changed for the dogs.
Luke was acting in a way that told me he was feeding on Mojo's
actions and I instinctively just knew this would be a disaster
if I hadn't been there to put a stop to it. I roundly dismissed
the dogs and picked her up from the playpen and then chewed
the kids out up one side and down the other for walking off like
that.
They should have told me the second they were going to
leave the room with Hailey and the dogs in there but they
just didn't think about it.
Would I call them irresponsible parents? No. My son especially
is devoted and downright overly protective of his daughter.
It happened _so_ fast.
I believe in my heart that had the behavior continued Mojo would
have at the very _least_ badly bitten my grand-daughter. After that
it's entirely possible that Luke would have joined in as well.
I saw the look in Mojo's dilated eyes and his body language
scared the hell out of me. It was the same kind of behavior
he'd exhibited with other dogs just prior to his frustration
in being unable to get to them and then he'd nip at the other
two.
I'm thankful I already had a deep mistrust of Mojo's reliablility
around children and the overly responsible mindset that I
had with him in keeping such a sharp eye on him or it most likely
would have ended in tragedy.
So yup, what you say here is so true:
The problem comes when people think that having
the kid in a playpen means the kid is safe
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meat terri a.k.a. dogsnuts wrote:
> (adding this thread to the kill file)
snip
Right behind ya, gal. Right behind ya.
RL dog and behavior stuff, yanno, what this group is entitled??
Well, the kiddo came over on the 28th for Xmas, (his new job
had him workig on Xmas), and lo and behold the dawgs haven't
seen the kiddo since Thanksgiving, but yet; they neither barked
nor growled a bit when kiddo drove up. Rather, they waited at
the garage door, waving tails and snuffling until the kiddo got
in the house.
Then, they waved the tails gently, snuffled kiddo and
got up on the sofa with him to get their scritches.
I tell ya, these dogs KNOW who their family is and who isn't!
It must_ be instinctive. Why?
Step-daughters first visit here was a few years ago, and
the *watch-dogs*, those mean ol' GSDs, did the same
thing upon thier first meeting with her.
These same dogs did NOT grow up with our youngest
kiddo, nor step-daughter; but yet: they did the same
thing upon greeting kiddo which whom they had not
been raised with.
Terri
(They freak out on little kiddos, though.
The 6 and 4 year old neighbors came over a couple of months
ago. Luke, 5, was a bit nervous. He kept his distance and
whined a bit from the back bedrooms.
My normally rock solid Luke, afraid of little quick moving kids.
Sigh.
My fault. None of the dogs has spent any amount of time
around little ones.
Mojo was okay until the 3 yr. old was sitting on the coffee
table and Mojo decided to do the "bark and snarly bad break
dance doggie" routine.
Well, that was it.
Mojo and Luke are not to be trusted with little fast moving
tots on their turf. I know him well enough to know he would
not have bit, but... I can't take the chance of a dog with a mouth
THAT big around a toddler.
Dogs outside, sad to say.
Can't risk it.
Terri
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BWEEEAAAHAAAHAAA~!~!~!
Kinda makes you LOOK like a pathetic miserable
stinkin rotten lyin animal an child abusin punk thug
coward active acute chronic life-long incurable
malignant maliciHOWES MENTAL CASE, DON'T
IT, meat terry?
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