Dogs

[ickyrica]

Here is a website I just stumbled onto that epitomizes the stupidity of humanity today.... This has GOT to be a production by some PSYCHO GROUP hell bent on murdering innocent animals and continuing the SPREAD of defective human genetics....!

Euthanizing Aggressive Dogs: Sometimes It's the Best Choice - VetzInsight - VIN

I think the title should be "Euthanizing STUPID FOLKS"...

Why not give the dog to someone that can handle it.?!?!??? Someone who the dog does not loathe and recognize as an imbecile...! CASE CLOSED...

Now if we could euthanize humans or at least keep reproduction from happening we would be in much better shape.

 

[BBC3]

Oh you mean Zeus and his love for play. Yea...

Just advising. You got to start hitting that reply button to quote the post you are referring else folks don't know which post you are referencing...

@BBC3, Sounds like a good one, you should try organised sport. Lots of fun competitions at all levels.

Search AKC for US, UKC for UK etc.

 

[x11]

Statistically toy breeds are more aggressive and bite more humans eg the Chi's. They just lack the tools and genetics to do much damage, Pits.....

There are too many unwanted dogs, too much liability and too few handlers with the time and knowledge to rehome all the aggressive dogs.

I support humane with in most cases and I love dogs.

 

[x11]

Ya, still learning to use the board functions, sorry confusion.

 

[x11]

Oh you mean Zeus and his love for play. Yea...

Just advising. You got to start hitting that reply button to quote the post you are referring else folks don't know which post you are referencing...

Got it now I think, thanks for tech tip.

 

[CdnGuy]

My boys pitbull Rocco gettin impatient lol

 

[Michael Scally MD]

From death row to adoption: Saving animals by car, van, bus and even plane.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/05/13/from-death-row-to-adoption-saving-animals-by-car-van-bus-and-even-plane/ (From death row to adoption: Saving animals by car, van, bus and even plane)

SAN FERNANDO, Calif. — May was supposed to be dead by now. The charcoal-and-white pit bull mix had languished for more than two months at a high-kill animal shelter in east Los Angeles County, and though she’d passed one “temperament test” required for adoption, she failed a second. That essentially put her on death row at the facility.

But a small rescue group got to May first and reserved her a spot on a school bus that would take her 840 miles north to Eugene, Ore.; there, another rescue had pledged to find her a home. And so on a sunny Saturday morning, she bounded up the steps of the red bus and quickly settled into a large crate near the back.

She had plenty of company as the wheels rolled along the highway: 105 other dogs and cats collected from crowded shelters in California and destined for the Pacific Northwest, where euthanasia rates are lower and pets are in greater demand. Their four rows of crates were stacked floor to ceiling. “These little souls have engulfed me,” admitted Phil Broussard, the garrulous trucker driving them up the coast.

His passengers were among the more than 10,000 animals that will be ferried out of the area this year by Rescue Express, one of the dozens of organizations across the nation fueling a dizzying daily reshuffle of dogs and cats by car, van, bus, and private and even chartered plane.

 

[ickyrica]

From death row to adoption: Saving animals by car, van, bus and even plane.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/05/13/from-death-row-to-adoption-saving-animals-by-car-van-bus-and-even-plane/ (From death row to adoption: Saving animals by car, van, bus and even plane)

SAN FERNANDO, Calif. — May was supposed to be dead by now. The charcoal-and-white pit bull mix had languished for more than two months at a high-kill animal shelter in east Los Angeles County, and though she’d passed one “temperament test” required for adoption, she failed a second. That essentially put her on death row at the facility.

But a small rescue group got to May first and reserved her a spot on a school bus that would take her 840 miles north to Eugene, Ore.; there, another rescue had pledged to find her a home. And so on a sunny Saturday morning, she bounded up the steps of the red bus and quickly settled into a large crate near the back.

She had plenty of company as the wheels rolled along the highway: 105 other dogs and cats collected from crowded shelters in California and destined for the Pacific Northwest, where euthanasia rates are lower and pets are in greater demand. Their four rows of crates were stacked floor to ceiling. “These little souls have engulfed me,” admitted Phil Broussard, the garrulous trucker driving them up the coast.

His passengers were among the more than 10,000 animals that will be ferried out of the area this year by Rescue Express, one of the dozens of organizations across the nation fueling a dizzying daily reshuffle of dogs and cats by car, van, bus, and private and even chartered plane.

Angels at work.

My lab/Shepard mix was a rescue from the dirty south after a hurricane decimated her local region. Folks like 'Rescue Express' are amazing.

 

[x11]

Guys I am a dog trainer, instead of fixing the symptoms I hope people can join together and fix the source.

Large volume puppy farms, oversupply, buyer education....

It is an unregulated mess, the public are the enablers thru ignorance.

For a start the US has a federal gag in media for animal production reporting.

Name one other industry that has a media gag, I don't think there is one.

Why and how do you think a media gag became fed law?

We can make a difference.

 

[Eman45]

So took my dog to the vet gave him his drugs to calm him down which this time didn't do shit so he had plenty of energy. Last time I had to pick him up off the coach. Anyways he's a 90lbs pit. I bring him in the lobby because no one was inside and it was cold out. The lady bring me a muzzle. I'm sitting down with his face in my lap. I go to put the muzzle on then stand up to clip behind his head at the same time he backed up slid his mouth out the muzzle and began to growl n show his teeth lol. This is my dog since 2 month pup let me tell you that fkr is scary couple things ran through my mind o fk do I drop the leash n run lol obviously not. Now I'm like fk ima fight my dog in the vet office and get fkd up and my dogs gonna get put down. So he jumps at my face I lean back n check him with my should where he comes down n bites me where my chest meets my arm pit. O fk. This shit is real. He gets back to the floor starts growling again like fk lol still got his leash there no getting away lol. He jumps half way up I check him with my forearm which by the way was all the way in the back of his mouth. Lol could of fkd me up but didn't. Back on the floor lol I tell him ok let's go home tug his chain while he's growling at me still lol get out side n bam completely different dog lol I'm sitting by the curb n he comes up n starts licking at me lol you little fkr. Wasn't mad at him to only acts like that at the vet. I should of put his muzzle on outside. And I sure as fk won't go unless he is really sadated. Lol love the fkr but dam is he fkn scary and that's my dog lol.

 

[Eman45]

Here's a pic of the the beast. Pure alpha bad mother fkr and he knows it. Haha got the attitude to go with the look.

 

[Hugh G. Rection]

Here's a pic of the the beast. Pure alpha bad mother fkr and he knows it. Haha got the attitude to go with the look.

I love pit bulls but I think they are in general very misunderstood. They are a working breed. Very high energy. Just like any other working dog they need a job and crazy amounts of exercise. They are great companions but if left alone and locked inside too much or treated the same way you would treat a little lap dog they're gonna start misbehaving. Chewing things, tearing up your house, biting people etc. One of the baddest pit bulls I've ever seen was a hog dog named tank. Tank and two curs would Bay a hog and hold it there until it could be captured. The hogs would then be kept in a pen for a month and fed corn until it was time to slaughter them. Anyway , tank was a BEAST when it was time to hunt. But when the hunt was over tank was as gentle as a newborn baby. My point is that a working dog can be a great pet but they still need a job.

 

[ickyrica]

my baby boy

 

[ickyrica]

 

[Gobuckeyes0122]

Hopefully everybody on here that has dogs has them on flea and tick preventative. Had a scare yesterday with my dog. Took her for a long walk yesterday. My wife and I got home and I was getting ready to shower and seen this dark spot on me. I thought it was a mole until I seen it had legs, it was a deer tick stuck to my stomach. My wife works in a vet hospital and always told me not to just yank it off bc if the head gets stuck, it can burrow into your body. So she used tweasars to remove it and then checked my whole body, and I mean whole body lol Dog had nothing on her thank god but it's important to keep up with animals vacanations and such! They are part of our family's too!!

 

[ickyrica]

I posted a video in the food thread yesterday about a tick that's can make you allergic to red meat

 

[hurricane]

A Bin Laden Hunter on Four Legs
Who’s the Dog Hero of the Raid on Bin Laden?

By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: May 4, 2011


The identities of all 80 members of the American commando team who thundered into Abbottabad, Pakistan, and killed Osama bin Laden are the subject of intense speculation, but perhaps none more so than the only member with four legs.

Little is known about what may be the nation’s most courageous dog. Even its breed is the subject of great interest, although it was most likely a German shepherd or a Belgian Malinois, military sources say. But its use in the raid reflects the military’s growing dependence on dogs in wars in which improvised explosive devices have caused two-thirds of all casualties. Dogs have proved far better than people or machines at quickly finding bombs.

Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of United States forces in Afghanistan, said last year that the military needed more dogs. “The capability they bring to the fight cannot be replicated by man or machine,” he said.

Maj. William Roberts, commander of the Defense Department’s Military Working Dog Center at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, said the dog on the raid could have checked the compound for explosives and even sniffed door handles to see if they were booby-trapped.

And given that Saddam Hussein was found hiding in a narrow, dark hole beneath a mud shack in Iraq, the Seal team might have brought the dog in case Bin Laden had built a secret room into his compound.

“Dogs are very good at detecting people inside of a building,” Major Roberts said.

Another use may have been to catch anyone escaping the compound in the first moments of the raid. A shepherd or a Malinois runs twice as fast as a human.

Tech Sgt. Kelly A. Mylott, the kennel master at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, called dogs ideal for getting someone who is running away without having to shoot them. “When the dogs go after a suspect, they’re trained to bite and hold them,” Sergeant Mylott said.

Some dogs are big enough that, when they leap on a suspect, the person tends to drop to the ground, Sergeant Mylott said. Others bite arms or legs. “Different dogs do different things,” she said. “But whatever they do, it’s very difficult for that person to go any further.”

Finally, dogs can be used to pacify an unruly group of people — particularly in the Middle East. “There is a cultural aversion to dogs in some of these countries, where few of them are used as pets,” Major Roberts said. “Dogs can be very intimidating in that situation.”

Sergeant Mylott said that dogs got people’s attention in ways that weapons sometimes did not. “Dogs can be an amazing psychological deterrent,” she said.

There are 600 dogs serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that number is expected to grow substantially over the next year, Ensign Brynn Olson of the United States Central Command said. Particularly popular with the troops are the growing number of Labrador retrievers who wander off-leash 100 yards or more in front of patrols to ensure the safety of the route. A Silver Star, one of the Navy’s highest awards, was awarded posthumously in 2009 to a dog named Remco after he charged an insurgent’s hide-out in Afghanistan.

The training of dogs in Navy Seal teams and other Special Operations units is shrouded in secrecy. Maj. Wes Ticer, a spokesman for United States Special Operations Command, said the dogs’ primary functions “are finding explosives and conducting searches and patrols.”

“Dogs are relied upon,” he continued, “to provide early warning for potential hazards, many times, saving the lives of the Special Operations Forces with whom they operate.”

Last year, the Seals bought four waterproof tactical vests for their dogs that featured infrared and night-vision cameras so that handlers — holding a three-inch monitor from as far as 1,000 yards away — could immediately see what the dogs were seeing. The vests, which come in coyote tan and camouflage, let handlers communicate with the dogs with a speaker, and the four together cost more than $86,000. Navy Seal teams have trained to parachute from great heights and deploy out of helicopters with dogs.

The military uses a variety of breeds, but by far the most common are the German shepherd and the Belgian Malinois, which “have the best overall combination of keen sense of smell, endurance, speed, strength, courage, intelligence and adaptability to almost any climatic condition,” according to a fact sheet from the military working dog unit.

Suzanne Belger, president of the American Belgian Malinois Club, said she was hoping the dog was one of her breed “and that it did its job and came home safe.” But Laura Gilbert, corresponding secretary for the German Shepherd Dog Club of America, said she was sure the dog was her breed “because we’re the best!”

I know its an old thread but during basic training in the USAF we used to run by the kennel at Lackland AFB ed. Those dogs are incredible. We were even allowed to volunteer to clean up the kennel. Strict orders not to distract the dogs though. LOL. Have 2 golden retrievers at home. Best family dog IMO.

 

[jJjburton]

I know its an old thread but during basic training in the USAF we used to run by the kennel at Lackland AFB ed. Those dogs are incredible. We were even allowed to volunteer to clean up the kennel. Strict orders not to distract the dogs though. LOL. Have 2 golden retrievers at home. Best family dog IMO.

same but only one. And it makes me crack up laughing everyday.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]