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[NeuroTypical]

55 minutes ago, OnePassenger said:

There was a lady from Niger, who smiled while she rode on a tiger. They came back from the ride, with the lady inside, and the smile on the face of the tiger. 😉

Well, Roc died of old age, and the little kid is now in high school.  Both of our kids also managed to survive to adulthood despite climbing all over him and poking him in the eyes and teething on his ears and stuff.  The cat didn't last long, but that was because she ran outside in a snowstorm and never came back. 

 

[Guest MormonGator]

1 hour ago, NeuroTypical said:

Well, by several accounts, Porter Rockwell was awful and dangerous too, so the name fit.

Anyway, here are some photos of Roc the Rottweiler being awful and dangerous.

 

 

 It's all in how you raise them. Bull terriers can have a fearsome rep, and if you broke into my house Jaina would probably attack you-but 99.9% of the time, she's harmless. 

[OnePassenger]

5 hours ago, zil said:

When it comes to domesticated animals, the only way a dog is awful and/or dangerous is if some human abuses it and trains it to be violent.  And in that scenario, it's a human's fault and the human deserves the punishment.

That's the usual view of dog owners. There are uncountable cases when dogs attacked men. A Stafford Terrier reaches through the fence of a school yard and kills an eight year old boy, which happened here at a preliminary school only a few years ago; a dog attacked a pensioner and injures her badly, and a dog runs off and attacks passers-by etc. There are endless examples. Which question is in the foreground? In my opinion it's public safety. A dog above a certain weight and with a certain physiognomy is a potential danger. I'm not allowed to walk around here in Germany with a Colt handgun, like in Texas or many other states, I'm not even allowed to purchase one and to own one:. If I had one I'd have a real chance to defend and wouldn't hesitate one second sending one of those hellbeasts to its creator when it's attacking another person. If one can't defend himself effectively against a dog, no one should be allowed to lead such a dog. And I'm not talking about a dachshund or a poodle. You have a dog that could be harmful for a person? Okay - then I should be allowed to were a gun. That's fair play. Don't you think so?

 

Edited September 21, 2018 by OnePassenger

[OnePassenger]

5 hours ago, NeuroTypical said:

Well, Roc died of old age, and the little kid is now in high school.  Both of our kids also managed to survive to adulthood despite climbing all over him and poking him in the eyes and teething on his ears and stuff.  The cat didn't last long, but that was because she ran outside in a snowstorm and never came back. 

 

Well, the cat obviously preferred a snowstorm to the dog. She is in a better world now. 🤠

[OnePassenger]

5 hours ago, MormonGator said:

 It's all in how you raise them. Bull terriers can have a fearsome rep, and if you broke into my house Jaina would probably attack you-but 99.9% of the time, she's harmless. 

The same old story. Even a probability of asserted 0.1 % that a dog would attack only under some asserted cases isn't acceptable, because it means he might attack one person out of thousand.  I hope your dog wouldn't attack the postman or a missionary, if that poor young man has the bad luck to be a 0,1 percenter. 🤠

[Guest MormonGator]

2 minutes ago, OnePassenger said:

The same old story. Even a probability of asserted 0.1 % that a dog would attack only under some asserted cases isn't acceptable, because it means he might attack one person out of thousand.  I hope your dog wouldn't attack the postman or a missionary, if that poor young man has the bad luck to be a 0,1 percenter. 🤠

I trained her to only attack German people. 😉

[Fether]

20 minutes ago, MormonGator said:

I trained her to only attack German people. 😉

I’m trying to picture how that training would happen. 

Did you train it to attack people with German accents? Or to attack people that use common words in the German language? Or did you train it to absolutely hate any German food so when it smells it, it dives into a violent frenzy?

[Guest MormonGator]

6 minutes ago, Fether said:

I’m trying to picture how that training would happen. 

Did you train it to attack people with German accents? Or to attack people that use common words in the German language? Or did you train it to absolutely hate any German food so when it smells it, it dives into a violent frenzy?

She's English. She has a sixth sense about German people. 

[OnePassenger]

32 minutes ago, MormonGator said:

She's English. She has a sixth sense about German people. 

The sixth sense - that's an interesting point. The biologist Rupert Sheldrake suggests in his book "The Seventh Sense of Man" that seeing not only takes place in our heads, but can also find its way into the world - to where we see something. It's not enough when light comes in. In order to see something must also run outwards. Who is stared at, feels this charisma. By the way, Sheldrake is also English.

🐶

 

[OnePassenger]

On 9/22/2018 at 2:21 AM, MormonGator said:

She's English. She has a sixth sense about German people. 

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Edited September 24, 2018 by OnePassenger

[OnePassenger]

On 9/22/2018 at 2:21 AM, MormonGator said:

She's English. She has a sixth sense about German people. 

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Edited September 24, 2018 by OnePassenger

[Guest Scott]

Speaking of hair, if they lived at the same time and place, would Samson be free to make fun of Elisha's bald head, assuming Sampson never cut his hair?