what are some dog "facts" people have tried to convice you about? (jm)

My dog walker reprimanding me for keeping my pup in a crate that she "can only stand up, turn around & lay down in"  Hello I thought that was the point of a crate

BCMixs

ron2

BCMixs

And everyone knows that dogs don't feel pain (or cold or heat, etc) and all that "baby-ing" is just us replacing them as children in our lives. 

And let me add to the irony or dichotomy, if you prefer. Why is it, especially with guys, the dog is just a dog, does not deserve "human food" and should mostly be outside, as much different from a human as they can be, all of a sudden become an extension of the man when it comes to neutering? Now, the man identifies with the dogs spark plugs as if they were his own.

 

   Too true, too true.....

OMG, I am laughing soooo hard right now! Ron, it is too true.  WHY do men think their dogs need their "spark plugs"? Guys, it's not YOU getting them roeoved.  Geeze, I had Gypsy spayed on the 13th of June.  I am not obsessing about her loss of reproductive ability.

Let's not forget another oldie but goodie: if you feed Pits gun powder, it will make them mean.  hell, it would make ME mean(er) than I already am if someone stuck that (*&&*# in My food too! 

 << all show dogs are nervy>>

Ummm, right.  Tell my pointed Am Staff snoring on her blanket beside me.  She's a LUMP a good portion of the day. Her BIS brother sometimes needs to be woken up to go in the ring!  He will be just standing there with his eyes half closed while everyone else is dancing around with nervous energy. Weird...

lorib

Let's not forget another oldie but goodie: if you feed Pits gun powder, it will make them mean.  hell, it would make ME mean(er) than I already am if someone stuck that (*&&*# in My food too! 

i have heard of that same thing..... its ages old. it probably does screw with them, but probably because it makes them sick as hell. and when you're sick.... you're in no mood to be nice.

i dont know how the chemical reaction goes with gun powder. makes me sick to even think on it. in Madison Florida they do that a lot to their pit bulls.... someone should drop a bomb on that town.. that and greenville... ugh! 

miranadobe

She's really a "Rockweiler", according to a woman just the other night.

She sure is a skinny rockweiler, whatever that is.

Now, I have seen Rottweilers, and they are broader in the chest than yours and a good deal heavier. And they have a different stop on the snout. But hey, anyone that can say rockweiler must know what they are talking about, eh?

Well, i just found out that my dogs will eat you alive. There were two teenagers walking down the street when i was walking K&W. One said to the other, "WHOA! Them dogs are big! Boy, they'll kill you! They'll eat you alive!"  

news to me... 

 Good to know that you're a zombie, isn't it?

Today, Emma got called a "mutt", and I was told that she had fleas. Funny, since I bathed her this morning, and there wasn't a flea in sight...

ron2

And let me add to the irony or dichotomy, if you prefer. Why is it, especially with guys, the dog is just a dog, does not deserve "human food" and should mostly be outside, as much different from a human as they can be, all of a sudden become an extension of the man when it comes to neutering? Now, the man identifies with the dogs spark plugs as if they were his own.

Err not all guys think that way. I am male. All my dogs have been fixed and I don't associate my genitals with the dog being fixed. Its called by responsible. Perhaps, its the type of male that most generalize about like the ones that say or think in this manner... "That's a woman's job" Trust me I have calls to me house and those guys would call me if I was doing daily chores.

Trust me, I am with you on that. I'm a guy and it didn't disturb me to have Shadow neutered. He is a part of our family but he will not sire a litter.

when people say "you should treat him more like a dog" I just wonder what ON EARTH they mean by it.  I'm not implying anything or trying to insult anyone.  I am genuinely pretty bemused by that little bit of advice whenever it is directed at me.
 

chain them underneath a wrecked truck and kick them twice a day??? who knows.

here are some I've heard...

German Shepherds will turn on their owners without warning

 If a dog tastes blood he will attack at any chance he gets

Pit bulls cannot be trusted ever. My parents still insist upon this even though I've told them all of the things I've learned here.

If you let your dog sleep on your bed he will think he is the "pack leader" and won't obey you. (Please, Riley's been sleeping on my bed since he was 6 months old and he's as good as can be)

There are more but I just can't think of them right now.

1. Little dogs aren't "real dogs", yeah idiot sure

2. Only a certain type of person owns little dogs

3. Most little dogs are untrained or unruly, again, sure idiot

4. You will spoil your dogs if you feed them raw and they won't respect your leadership

5. The pseudomedical nonsense that I've seen in the dog community has me laughing daily

My cousin's boyfriend told me a couple months ago that he knows a guy that breeds pits (in Baltimore..or Brooklyn Park..or some equally crappy place), and "he feeds them gunpowder...makes them more muscular.." I sat there, mouth agape for a minute (I never heard anything about feeding dogs gunpowder before!), but thought he was making fun of the guy for thinking that...nope.. "It really does! You should see how muscular these dogs are!"

And my Mom firmly believes that most pit bulls are aggressive. The fact that Jaz doesn't have an aggressive bone in his body...just means he's an odd duck. And she trusts my outwardly aggressive lab-looking dog over super-sweet Jaz, because he's an "emotionally disturbed pit bull!" She's changing though.. a couple years ago she was horribly uncomfortable with Jaz being around my cousin's kid or my nephew at all, and now she just doesn't trust him 100%, which is fine and good anyway...

Oh, and another gem from my mama, who used to breed boxers... "I really don't believe that socialization is that important with dogs.. I mean, I never purposely socialized any of my dogs!" (Because I tried desperately to drill "SOCIALIZE!!" into my sister's head when she got her puppy) Yeah Ma, and you freely admit (usually) that your dogs were "protective around strangers" (one bit a meter reader..but her excuse was that she didn't raise that dog...so ya think maybe the ones she did raise got some accidental socialization?? and therefore socialization really IS important?) and that you "certainly never had a dog that would've been able to go to a dog park!"

And lordy..if you ever try to say that pits and boxers have similar temperaments?? Prepare to get your head ripped off.. lol