Lennox has been destroyed. Thank you to all who tried to help

Person_one

zaksmum wrote: »

I don't think anyone is actually enjoying this story Person One.

I disagree.

Some people seem to be taking a very strange pleasure in going over exactly why the poor dog needed to be killed and why it was the right thing to do.

Normally when things go your way, the polite thing to do is to leave the people on the other side alone to lick their wounds. Not keep hounding them with your side of the argument, after all you won.

aliasojo

NewKittenHelp wrote: »

Was the dog anxious or happy? You claim he was both!

Yes, you can. An animal be in a heightened sense of anxiety whilst trying to behave normally. It looks to me as if Lennox was anxious but was trying to 'be nice' until the assessor made him feel threatened.

However, we have no way of knowing what Lennox's behaviour would have been after he felt threatened....i.e. was his bark and jump up a warning and he would have immediately retreated or would he have attacked. He was pulled away by the warden so again, I don't feel a true picture was offered.

NewKittenHelp

candygirl wrote: »

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So could you!!!:eek::eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Go and cuddle your kitten or something:rotfl::rotfl:
BTW I didn't realise the word "weirdo" was offensive, just a word describing how someone was acting:D

I am, she's lay on my shoulder.:D

NewKittenHelp

aliasojo wrote: »

Yes, you can. An animal be in a heightened sense of anxiety whilst trying to behave normally. It looks to me as if Lennox was anxious but was trying to 'be nice' until the assessor made him feel threatened.

However, we have no way of knowing what Lennox's behaviour would have been after he felt threatened....i.e. was his bark and jump up a warning and he would have immediately retreated or would he have attacked. He was pulled away by the warden so again, I don't feel a true picture was offered.

An animal cannot be both happy and anxious - they are two separate states of mind.

What do you suggest then? That a dangerous and unpredictable dog should have been allowed to savage a person to satisfy a layman's curiosity?

DitaVonTee

aliasojo wrote: »

Yes, you can. An animal be in a heightened sense of anxiety whilst trying to behave normally. It looks to me as if Lennox was anxious but was trying to 'be nice' until the assessor made him feel threatened.

However, we have no way of knowing what Lennox's behaviour would have been after he felt threatened....i.e. was his bark and jump up a warning and he would have immediately retreated or would he have attacked. He was pulled away by the warden so again, I don't feel a true picture was offered.

Please explain to me what IS so threatening about the behaviour of the assessor this was a dog that was sitting taking treats 3 minutes prior to him lunging and snapping at his assessor (an assessor that WAS brought in by the dogs own family!)
NO 'harmless' sort of dog would resort to that kind of behaviour so quickly.
If the family thought this behaviour was so 'harmless' why didn't they release it along with the 3 minute clip that was leaked?

aliasojo

NewKittenHelp wrote: »

What do you suggest then? That a dangerous and unpredictable dog should have been allowed to savage a person to satisfy a layman's curiosity?

Ok, you're being ridiculous so clearly we can't have a reasonable conversation and I'm out, as they say.

aliasojo

DitaVonTee wrote: »

Please explain to me what IS so threatening about the behaviour of the assessor this was a dog that was sitting taking treats 3 minutes prior to him lunging and snapping at his assessor (an assessor that WAS brought in by the dogs own family!)
NO 'harmless' sort of dog would resort to that kind of behaviour so quickly.

As I said earlier, I wondered if pain was caused to the dog's neck. The video isn't clear as to what the assessor did around the neck area. (I'm not suggesting deliberately btw)

dawnie1972

All i know is that, had that been my staff x lab in that video that guy wouldnt have got within 2 feet of him, not because he's aggressive but because he's terrified of men due to being beaten/abused

dawnie1972

aliasojo wrote: »

As I said earlier, I wondered if pain was caused to the dog's neck. The video isn't clear as to what the assessor did around the neck area. (I'm not suggesting deliberately btw)

I think it was the Sarah Fisher report that stated she had some concerns regarding the dogs neck area and felt that he was in some pain in that area for whatever reason

Person_one

NewKittenHelp wrote: »

An animal cannot be both happy and anxious - they are two separate states of mind.

They absolutely can be both.

Have you never been both? Excited and happy about something but anxious at the same time? Maybe on your wedding day or when you drove a car for the first time?

Perfectly possible, and I've seen a lot of dogs display those emotions together.