Kreisleriana wrote:
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:45:18 GMT, BC yodeled:

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This is soo sad. In my opinion the best way to create a guard dog
is to treat it wonderfully so that it sees you as its family and
wants to protect you, no training to be a guard dog is then needed.
Our old dog was wonderful, even slept on the beds with us, shared
our dinner, let me do anything with her but if someone knocked on
the door, well that was a different matter! Sounds like they are
teasing this dog to turn it bad, he can see all these lovely
people who put their hands out to give
him a lovely stoke then someone shouts from behind him and that
lovely hand is taken away, this will only create a sad, sour dog who
will be too much for the owners, very, very sad.

I hate to pass this kind of judgment on anyone, and in addition, I
feel a kind of liberal guilt, since these people are immigrants. I
hate uninformed knee-jerk prejudice against immigrants, because
everybody's family came from somewhere else at some time-- and at some
point in history, I'm sure somebody thought *my* ancestors were scum.
But these are stupid, ignorant people, and IMO, perhaps dangerous-- I
suspect the dog was obtained to protect something illegal-- and I'm a
bit afraid of them myself.

Interestingly enough I saw this this morning:
http://www.slate.com/id/2113564/
I'm going to keep it in mind.

Theresa

I thought I posted something about this yesterday but I don't see it. I'd
be tempted to find a "dog napper" if possible. That poor animal is just
going to be miserable and possibly mean, but not a guard dog.

Jill