Re: [PyrNet-L] Re: more puppy problems

[Adrienne Wilder <draggon@STC.Net>]

> choice - Select from below:  1- Go to a vet; 2- complain to the breeder;
> or 3- euthanize.
> Helping a Pyr become a worthwhile member of your family requires more
> than these three options.
> And the list members can help offer those other options.
> 

The reason why people are more apt to suggest euthinasia for agression 
now-a-days is because of new laws and lawsuites that have surfaced.  
While 30 years ago, if a dog bit some one, the person probably just 
learned to avoid the dog and the family learned to lock the dog up.  
Now, if a dog bites, (in some states) it must be reported like a gunshot 
wound, a police report is filed, and the perosn w/ the dog could and 
proabably *would* be sued for everything that they ever owned or would 
think of owning.
	Rather then looking at it as ignorance.  Look at it as 
education.  A biting dog might have been excepted 30 years ago, but 
today we know, through science, that it is not normal and it is usually 
caused by some medical/chemical/genetic means that no amount of 
love/training/understanding can fix.  
	Is it pretty?  By no means.  But also 30 years ago puppymills 
and petstores were not the big cash cows they are today and the dog that 
the "average" joe-pet person buys is 9 times out of 10 derived from 
these festering pits of genetic disasters.
	While it takes work, and lots of it, to make *any* dog a 
worthwile part of the family, you have to have soemthing of sound *mind* 
and body to start with.


	
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Adrienne Wilder  
Murrayville GA

"Oh, to be loved by a dog!"

Home of:
The golden gang,
Patou and the evil sister geese.
and many stray cats.