everytime you love a puppy, a human dies!The article itself is sad, but I *hate* when people get on their bandwagon that animal welfare and human rights are mutually exclusive. I am angry about violence against animals, but that doesn't mean I find any kind of human suffering okay ( Read more... )

Forget behavior modification because it obviously won't work on our super special sheltie who happens to bark a lot (because lord knows shelties aren't barky dogs to begin with)! Don't tell me ANYTHING other than a good brand of barking collar because people who don't like to cause their animals pain are HIPPIES.

Dude! You know, a bark collar won ( Read more... )

went to a friend of a friend's house last night where there were 2 chocolate lab puppies. dominance theory abounds with such great ideas - never, ever let a dog go through a door before you. never let the dog eat before you eat. and sleeping in the bed? that's like asking for chaos. oh and these dogs are special - they perceive no pain ( Read more... )

I spend a lot of time, because apparently I'm a masochist, looking over various dog forums wherein people post problems they are having with their dogs. Sometimes I have something constructive to say, a lot of times I just read the good advice other people give (and cringe at the bad). Mostly it's pretty banal stuff, mistakes probably most of us ( Read more... )

Have others validate your utterly flawed assumptions ( Read more... )

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    Hey y'all.  What's more fun than one dysfunctional rescuer?  That's right.  Two.  This is a two-fer to say farewell to this past, crap-ass year.

"I got this dog two years ago outside of WalMart.  Here recently, she killed a chicken.  She's unspayed, has basic shots, and needs to go immediately please!  But we don't want her to go to an ( Read more... )

Here in the Phillipines we have mad problems with stray dogs and unwanted dogs with lots of health problems, and sometimes they even spread diseases to our pet dogs. It sucks. Oh yes, we do have dog overpopulation here, too. It's very sad. What? Spay my rottie bitch so she can't have puppies that I can neither afford to care for nor will be able to ( Read more... )

I got to be on U-scan, and stand around listening to the bank manager - the fucking MANAGER - tell funny stories about the pets he's killed and maimed. (I work at Kroger's, and we have a Charter One inside the store ( Read more... )