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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
Getting used to my girlfriends dog (big one) and going to the dog park as someone who didnt grow up with dogs, she and others still poke fun at me for sometimes going into a protective body position around them when they're excited and not being totally trusting yet ... reading stories like those, I stand behind my instincts lol.
Not all dogs are behaved, and not every owner can be relied on to take control of their animal around bystanders.
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I wonder what happens if someone is attacked by a dog and the person's or someone's reaction is to start attacking the dog until it's dead.
I was chatting with a guy who owns a pit bull. He says that he's a responsible owner, but other pit bull owners are not. His comments were a bit strange.
He says if he does a poor job training his dog and it attacks someone and causes injury, the dog would get euthanized. His comments was that his dog attacking someone would represent a failure as an owner/trainer and that it also means that the dog was not taught well enough not to be a danger to society. He also mentioned that if it attacked his kids, he might end up killing it with his own two hands as a protective instinct to his family. "It's a pit bull, there's a possibility you might actually have to grab something to kill it to actually get it to stop, if it goes out of control."
That's a crazy mentality to have. But props to him.