"enigma" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in
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Dogs are the same way. You can assume certain things about
them. Make a list of 10 possible things an unattended dog
might do, and if 9 of those things are stupid, destructive
or annoying, you can bet a year's pay that the dog will
choose one or more of those 9 things 100% of the time. The
only acceptable thing it might do is sleep. The other 9
include such delights as crapping on the rug, crapping
specifically where innocent people need to walk, barking
until the police arrive, biting someone, chewing furniture,
wrapping their leashes around trees until they're choking
(a good thing, actually, but still stupid), digging in
neighbors' gardens.

i realize your neighbors are idiots & have badly trained
dogs, but not all, or even most, dogs are like that. really.
i'm NOT a dog person, but 99% of problem dogs are stupid
owners... not only that, but most of those problem dogs could
fairly easily be retrained to be good dogs if thier owners
cared.

Well, that's mostly correct. Too many owners have those stupid extendable
leash things, and let their dogs run 30 feet into other peoples' property,
which often means "right in the flower beds". I ask them politely to not let
their dogs stop in my yard in the future, and they say "Well...I'm gonna
clean it up". Ummm...no. The dog just ****ed on my flower bed, and I'm 2
minutes away from wanting to work with my hands in that very spot. And, even
if they clean up the crap, the scent remains and attracts stray dogs,
something I've observed for over 25 years. So, the only acceptable response,
when I tell them to do it elsewhere, is "Yes. OK." But, as I've mentioned
elsewhere, dogs train humans to do what's convenient, not what's
considerate, intelligent and legal.