Maybe people get dangerous dogs because they like the way it makes them feel. Some sort of twisted power trip. “Don’t mess with me. Look at the dogs I have. They will ruin your day.”
Few things anger me more than seeing headlines like the one from this morning’s batch of uplifting and heartwarming accounts of some irresponsible neighborhood terrorist in Texas whose dogs killed an 81-year-old man, mauled the woman he was walking with, and made life difficult for those who came to the rescue.
What are people doing with dogs they have no intention of handling, or can’t handle? What the hell are they thinking? Can it be that these animals end up doing exactly what the owners hoped they would do?
Imagine being out for a walk and ending up maimed or dead because a perturbed animal with a bite pressure rivaling the Jaws of Life decides to protect its territory, or was somehow set off. A senseless, gut-wrenching tragedy.
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