luvsJack
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And there are areas who are adding the ban.
They need to learn to identify them if they want to ban them. Most of the cities that have the ban have failed to do that.
And there are areas who are adding the ban.
That makes me ill.
I’m a pibble fan and I totally get what you’re saying. It’s silly to compare the two.
I am so sorry you have to watch that and go through that. My sil had a small dog that was killed by her brother's dog. Its heartbreaking.
No one thinks they aren't capable of it. Any large dog is capable of it.
I posted on this very subject here in 2006, where I was grief stricken. My 45 lb "hound" dog killed my 13 lb Jack Russell Terrier. I have been permanently scarred by this. Any dog is capable of such behavior, especially when there are vast size differences in dogs. I found out (too late) that my hound had a very high prey drive toward small, fluffy things (I had her assessed after the incident). I kept her once my vet and the behaviorist told me that this was actually "animal" behavior. Once I knew that, she never went near another small dog again and we never had any other issues out of her for another 12 years (she lived until she was 18). You would have never looked at this dog and thought she had it in her.
I'm sure it varies by state but here, any pet adopted from the humane society has to be fixed. If, for some reason, they can't be ( too young, health issues, etc) then the adopter has to put down a deposit that they don't get back until they can prove it's been done.
I was shocked at how many people came through an adoption event DS and I were at who wanted an unaltered dog and declined to adopt when told it was a requirement.
So they can make money off the dogs!Me too, I thought one of the humane society directors was going to blow a gasket when one guy told her he was looking for a mate for his male dog, cause he wanted puppies.
I don’t understand why any reasonable person would want to own a Pitt bull. The continual sticking up for the bread on this thread is reduculous. The are banned in the area I live in Canada and existing grandfathered in ones have very strict restrictions. There aren’t many left, thankfully. There is a reason pttt bulls are banned and other breeds are not. And the reason isn’t that the breed has a false or imagined reputation.
I proudly own a pit bull. I guess that makes me unreasonable.
Spay and neutering should be done for cats and dogs in general--it helps reduce overpopulation issues..
correction......i do not "own" a pit bull. I proudly consider him to be part of my family......
I'm not aware of what you mean by "import more than 1 million dogs to meet the demand for rescues".These are two completely different and equally controversial topics-if we have such a huge pet overpopulation issue why did shelters and rescues import more than 1 million dogs to meet the demand for rescues? If we are euthanizing dogs in that are born here Korean meat dogs need to stay in Korea.
While I agree that most pet owners should spay or neuter there is beginning to be a significant boy of evidence that says dogs-especially large breed live longer healthier lives left entire. Its a slippery slope because the AR groups would like us all to spay and neuter so dogs become extinct. But there are responsible breeders in the world who don't randomly produce puppies. Sadly there are way more loosers who just wanna make a buck off puppies
I'm not aware of what you mean by "import more than 1 million dogs to meet the demand for rescues".
You're compare the general advice of spay and neutering pets to the Korean dog meat industry? God I just want to vomit anytime I think about it.
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Ok I had a response all typed out but decided against it. Let's just say I'm done talking about Korean dog meat industry it's making me sick. Let's agree to disagree and move please.So not sure if it is deliberate or I didn't give enough separation but you connected two unrelated statements. I was pretty clear that they were two UNRELATED but controversial topics.
Rescues-particularly retail rescues in the United States imported more than 1 million dogs from the Far East, Turkey and the Middle east in 2017-they were imported specificially to meet the demand in the united states for "rescued dogs" IF there is such a HUGE issue with overpopulation in the US then WHY WHY WHY are we importing dogs from the Korean meat trade-or the thousands of golden retrievers that are brought in from Turkey, bringing with them strains of diseases that are in known and promptly begin killing dogs in the US. MY statement was-IF we are Euthanizing so many dogs in the US then the Korean meat dogs need to stay in Korea. When we are not euthanizing dogs born in the US then we can look outside for 'rescue' dogs.
There was NO relationship between the Korean meat dogs and the spay neuter statement-you simply chose to read it that way.
I believe in spay neuter for companion animals that should not be bred and never said otherwise.
I am confused.
If you don't mind me asking, how long had you had the Jack before the incident took place? And so sorry for your loss, I can't even imagine the pain it's left you with.I posted on this very subject here in 2006, where I was grief stricken. My 45 lb "hound" dog killed my 13 lb Jack Russell Terrier. I have been permanently scarred by this. Any dog is capable of such behavior, especially when there are vast size differences in dogs. I found out (too late) that my hound had a very high prey drive toward small, fluffy things (I had her assessed after the incident). I kept her once my vet and the behaviorist told me that this was actually "animal" behavior. Once I knew that, she never went near another small dog again and we never had any other issues out of her for another 12 years (she lived until she was 18). You would have never looked at this dog and thought she had it in her.
I have to say I've never heard of this "importing dogs" from other countries.So not sure if it is deliberate or I didn't give enough separation but you connected two unrelated statements. I was pretty clear that they were two UNRELATED but controversial topics.
Rescues-particularly retail rescues in the United States imported more than 1 million dogs from the Far East, Turkey and the Middle east in 2017-they were imported specificially to meet the demand in the united states for "rescued dogs" IF there is such a HUGE issue with overpopulation in the US then WHY WHY WHY are we importing dogs from the Korean meat trade-or the thousands of golden retrievers that are brought in from Turkey, bringing with them strains of diseases that are in known and promptly begin killing dogs in the US. MY statement was-IF we are Euthanizing so many dogs in the US then the Korean meat dogs need to stay in Korea. When we are not euthanizing dogs born in the US then we can look outside for 'rescue' dogs.
There was NO relationship between the Korean meat dogs and the spay neuter statement-you simply chose to read it that way.
I believe in spay neuter for companion animals that should not be bred and never said otherwise.
If you don't mind me asking, how long had you had the Jack before the incident took place? And so sorry for your loss, I can't even imagine the pain it's left you with.
I have to say I've never heard of this "importing dogs" from other countries.