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  • sticher
    sticher Posts: 599 Forumite
    I would also like to add that the parents of the pup are not necessarily bad examples simply because one was muzzled. The fact that the muzzle could be removed once the owner gave a command shows how well trained the dog was. However, I don't know of any reputable breeders who would let someone with a toddler and another on the way have a puppy as the pup needs more attention than they would have time for.

    If it had been trained as a guard dog then it would be doing its job to be unfriendly to strangers, it doesn't mean its a bad dog. I personally am not a fan of rottweilers so don't think I am sticking up for this dog because I am. It just upsets me that people still rush into buying a puppy without really giving it any proper thought and then it is the poor dog that suffers.
  • Acehole_2
    Acehole_2 Posts: 202 Forumite
    ...shovel...
  • Kimberley
    Kimberley Posts: 14,871 Forumite
    Your kids come first, re home the dog, don't risk it. If the dog attacks a child it would be the owners fault knowing the dog was aggressive.
  • relay
    relay Posts: 313 Forumite
    Great idea - much easier than bothering to train it. With that kind of approach every 4 month old puppy would get rehomed !!!!!!!
  • relay
    relay Posts: 313 Forumite
    Acehole wrote: »
    ...shovel...


    You really have got a thing about dogs doncha? lol
  • supermezzo
    supermezzo Posts: 1,055 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    relay wrote: »
    Great idea - much easier than bothering to train it. With that kind of approach every 4 month old puppy would get rehomed !!!!!!!
    No, because not everyone with a 4 month old pup has kids as well.
    It aint over til I've done singing....
  • sticher
    sticher Posts: 599 Forumite
    Sorry duplicate post
  • sticher
    sticher Posts: 599 Forumite
    With that kind of approach every 4 month old puppy would get rehomed !!!!!!

    And unfortuantely that is often what does happen when people don't bother to take the time to research what having a dog is like before they get one - as the astronomical number of dogs that have been disowned this Christmas goes to prove. People have really got to be educated into not regarding a living creature as a material object that they can just throw out for someone else to care for when they want. Also that having a puppy is HARD WORK.

    If you ask me, the shovel should be kept to use on anyone who thinks of buying a puppy on a whim, lol.
  • katiep_2
    katiep_2 Posts: 120 Forumite
    sticher wrote: »

    If you ask me, the shovel should be kept to use on anyone who thinks of buying a puppy on a whim, lol.

    :T :T :T :T :T
  • i must say we were the 3rd home to a loveley rotty who had been abandoned as a not quite a puppy / oh my god its got big and eats a lot stage. she was then rehomed by somebody who used her as a guard dog / back of the pub dog because she was loud and skittish and he liked the fact he could walk her on a chain and look hard. she was there being shouted at for a fair few years with absoluteley no training ( if she barked or got exited or even scared they put her out the back). they then decided to move and have kids and decided the dog was not suitabel to be roiund kids (a wise choice but not the dogs fault in my opinion) and so at 8/9ish (we weer never sure) she landed up with us (he was talking about dumping her on the streets again as his logic was that if he took her to a rescue theyd see she was a stroppy rotty and put ehr down) I was older ( not a little kiddy) so was capable of helping train the dog rather than being a little kiddy. the dog lived with us for quite a while before dying of general old age. in that time she got used to people (admittedly one at a time) not being possessive and walking on the lead ( she was muzzled but this was partly because we didnt want to run any risks with ehr adn partly coz otherwise she tried to eat chips off the floor) and she became a pretty much totally different dog. however we were a household with no small children and used to large dogs, so we were ideal for her.
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