People are retarded....
I took my German Shepherd to the campground last night for the fireworks. We go down every year with the fire department to sit at Ground Zero and watch and protect the drunks in their pimped out golf carts from imminent danger. Yay for us....
For those of you who don't know, I adopted Naiah from Virginia German Shepherd Rescue on my Birthday in April. So I've had her 2 months now. Three days after I brought her home, I brought her to my bosses at work to have her evaluated to see what they thought of her. They've been training dogs forever and they bred GSD so who better? Well, my wonderfully spooked out girl bit my boss.....not a good plan Naiah, thanks for flushing any hope of summer bonuses down the shitter!!
Anyhooo, for the first month I had her I had to keep her on a leash in the house because my husband and the boy couldn't come home without her getting aggressive....good planning on my part? ;-)
So, I've been training her the whole time I've had her and she's been doing great with strangers as long as I'm handling her.
So back to the campground: Naiah was doing a great job, in fact at one point she was lying on her side in the middle of 5 or 6 people and I looked down at her in amazement! This is the same dog that I never thought I'd be able to have in public! Cool....the only problem she has was with one drunk guy on a bike, he rolled up (kinda) and I looked down at my chilled out dog and she was staring a hole through this guy. He asked me "does you're dog bite" what I wanted to say was "no, but this isn't my dog" but I took one look at her and said yes! (he waited for that to sink in, and rolled his happy ass away).
This brings me to the point of this post, never thought I'd get there right? Why in gods name would anyone allow their child to approach a strange dog without asking if they can pet it? Why do people think that all dogs want to be petted by total strangers?
This is the breed standard for a German Shepherd: The characteristic expression of the German Shepherd Dog gives the impression of perpetual vigilance, fidelity, liveliness and watchfulness, alert to every sight and sound, with nothing escaping attention; fearless, but with decided suspiciousness of strangers - as opposed to the immediate friendliness of some breeds.
This means they are not Labs or Golden Retrievers people they are friggin German Shepherds, they don't want to be your friend LEAVE THEM ALONE!
That being said, there are some people who have trained thier children to ask before approching any dog, thank you parents for that (I trained my own children to do this) but they are still some idiots out there you can tell which ones because thier kids are missing fingers!
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