Silk Naturals

karen wrote: Most dogs have a prey drive that's built-in. Even tiny, sweet, well socialized, lap dogs will chase things on occasion. It's why dogs like squeeky toys. Bostons are generally goofballs- they weigh less than 25 pounds, don't bark very often, are bread to be lap dogs, and they have tiny little teeth. You couldn't breed a less intimidating dog if you tried (okay maybe a pug), but they'll chase things.

Hey, my Leo is fearsome! Hehehe, nah, he's a sweetie, but so is the pitbull who lives above us and dances when sees us. Even my cuddly pug will 'attack' a stuffed toy, but mostly carries them around wanting to show off his 'pray'; they are dogs, that's what they were created for, but that doesn't mean we should not have any. So yeah, I agree that some other measure needs to be taken, rather than selectively ban breeds.

Oh yeah, any dog will kill a chicken if given the chance, I don't expect dogs not to be dogs. Not all dogs can tear their way through chicken wire though, these two dogs actually ripped a hole in the wire, they didn't rip the wire off the frame they just bit through it Now we have steel mesh (the steel is about 5mm round, lol, nothing could get through it ). we also got photos of the dogs on our property, and doggy footprints in the coop, and they came back and pooped inside the coop the next day, so we had pretty good evidence for dog control.
It is really good to know that about the fences, I might discuss that with dh, I don't particularly like the idea of barbed wire on our fences, but I do like the idea of our hens/cat/kids being safe in the garden. If we tacked it down close to the top of the fence too then it might not be too noticeable.

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I LOVE dogs. They are like anything else, there are good ones and bad ones, doesn't matter on the breed. Seems like every 10-15 years there is an evil breed to come along. It tends to be evil owners, not the breed. Must admit there are certain breeds I am more afraid of, but when it comes down to it dogs are dogs and act as dogs do. My dog got attacked this summer (in a very nice part of town) by a wired hair fox terrier as the nasty old owner watched and didn't give a rats butt. You could tell this is the NORM for both of them. I could only yell from a distance as they walked away b/c the idiot still refused to leash her evil hound. So now everytime I see a wired hair terrier I panic, though my dog doesn't.
One good thing to come out of the whole Michael Vick nightmare is how loving and sweet many of the dogs are. If they can go through that horror and come out of it loving and sweet it says a lot for the breed. I love seeing stores about where the pups are.

JenK wrote:I LOVE dogs. They are like anything else, there are good ones and bad ones, doesn't matter on the breed. Seems like every 10-15 years there is an evil breed to come along. It tends to be evil owners, not the breed. Must admit there are certain breeds I am more afraid of, but when it comes down to it dogs are dogs and act as dogs do. My dog got attacked this summer (in a very nice part of town) by a wired hair fox terrier as the nasty old owner watched and didn't give a rats butt. You could tell this is the NORM for both of them. I could only yell from a distance as they walked away b/c the idiot still refused to leash her evil hound. So now everytime I see a wired hair terrier I panic, though my dog doesn't.
One good thing to come out of the whole Michael Vick nightmare is how loving and sweet many of the dogs are. If they can go through that horror and come out of it loving and sweet it says a lot for the breed. I love seeing stores about where the pups are.

One of my dog collar clients is Wallace the Pit Bull, 2006 Cynosport World Champion & 2007 Purina Incredible Dog Challenge National Champion. Wallace's owners, Andrew and Claire Yori adopted Hector, one of the dogs rescued from Michael Vick's fighting operation. Hector has passed the AKC Canine Good Citizen Test and has become a therapy dog through TDI, Therapy Dogs International.

Andrew is working with the Animal Farm Foundation in Bangall, NY, he has Hector with him now. Hopefully they are going to protest the Ed Block award that is being given to Michael Vick tonight in Maryland.

Here is some info about Hector, his brother Wallace and Animal Farm Foundation:

http://www.pitbullunited.com/
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/page ... nfo&ref=ts
http://www.animalfarmfoundation.org/index.php

Aw, they are such nice stories! I was reading about Michael Vick (the complete piece of scum)'s dogs recently, I'm glad to hear at least one was able to be rehabilitated and go to a good home.

lilychemgirl wrote:Aw, they are such nice stories! I was reading about Michael Vick (the complete piece of scum)'s dogs recently, I'm glad to hear at least one was able to be rehabilitated and go to a good home.

Quite a few were placed in excellent homes. I believe that several are now therapy dogs.

What a wonderful story about Hector !! I am not sure what the Ed Block Award is (football?), but he deserves NO awards. I can't believe how he was welcomed back by most of the public w/ open arms. As far as I can tell he really doesn't even understand what he did wrong. I so didn't believe him when he spoke.

It seems like a high percentage of the rescued dogs are leading a happy life and are well adjusted.