Re: [pyrnet] More on Newman's "dangling participles"

["Nancy K" <nakhere@hotmail.com>]

Here Here !!  As the owner of a rescue Pyr, I hope you haven't and won't 
create another one.


>From: JGentzel@aol.com
>Reply-To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org
>To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org
>Subject: Re: [pyrnet] More on Newman's "dangling participles"
>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:48:25 EST
>
>In a message dated 2/22/02 7:56:30 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>rhonda@castlepublishing.com writes:
>
>
> > But his peeing on the floor is not good for MY health! It makes me
> > hypertensive and downright nasty!
> >
> >
> >
>
>You might need to find another place for him to stay.  If you are not going
>to neuter him and the other suggestions fail, you will have to remove the 
>dog
>from the offending area.
>
>It may not happen to your dog, but these are the type situations that 
>result
>in the displaced dogs we see all the time now.  Part of responsible pet
>ownership is neutering/spaying pets.  These are decisions that needed to be
>make long time ago and it is obvious that a critical assessment was not 
>made
>when the decision was made to get the dog.
>
>Now you would like an intact male who has started the instinctual marking 
>of
>males and is being kept in your house to revise his age old instincts.
>Happens sometimes, but what is wrong with this scenario?  Neutering is one
>alteration of the dog that works sometimes after the behavior has started,
>but even that now is not a sure thing.  Your chances of success go down
>dramatically every minute and refusal to not be able to follow the best
>advise is courting failure.  I suspect the dog will be the looser in the 
>end
>if these conflicts continue as you describe them.
>
>Our concern mostly on this list is for the dogs welfare, so most of us are
>not going to be too concerned about the human part of it except how it may
>play out on the dog itself.
>
>Joe




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