Comments on: Pets are not human!

By: Dave Meyer

Dave Meyer — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:04:47 +0000

Animals have a lot in common with children in the respect that they need to understand the rules, should be disciplined as appropriate, and should not be allowed to roam free. Personally I’ve had many more problems with disrespectful children than I have had with animals.

But that’s probably another story.

If people really loved their animals as much as they said they did, they would discipline their animals and train their animals so that they would not create problems.

By: Renee

Renee — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:24:25 +0000

Lovely reminder that dogs can be human and humans can be dogs.
I am a current non-dog owner who often rents half her house to people w/ huge dogs. While my domicile situation is opposite yours: I live in the city where dogs w/o leashes are illegal unless human and dog are both present in a dog park. Also required is scooping your pet’s poop. All too frequently I encounter the undesired unscooped remnants of another’s pet.
As for barking, one tenant who had two dogs apologized because they were barking. My answer was, “They are dogs; dogs bark.”

By: Gaye Wilson

Gaye Wilson — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:27:18 +0000

Hi Cindy,

Welcome to my blog!

I must admit that I’m one of those people who has a barking dog. She drives me nuts, so I can only imagine how she affects the neighbours.

Unfortunately, though, there doesn’t seem to be anything I can do to stop her. A couple of years ago she developed a severe anxiety disorder which required human Valium, a dog behaviourist and lots of energy and TLC on my part to fix. It took several months to do so.

Now she has age-related cognitive disorder, so the barking is back (albeit not as bad as it was before).

So sometimes a dog owner can’t do much about a dog’s barking, except cringe when approached by the neighbours, and apologise profusely.

But I know where you’re coming from, because my own dog’s barking drives me absolutely bonkers at times!

By: Cindy Morus, The Money Mender

Cindy Morus, The Money Mender — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:51:44 +0000

Hi Gaye, very well put.

Another of my “pet” peeves is the people who let their dogs bark all the time and then get mad at you when you talk to them about it!

A little yappy dog lives next door to me with a doggie door. Whenever I take my dog out, it comes out and starts barking and, of course, my dog has to chime in, too.

We can’t even be out in the back yard enjoying ourselves because it won’t stop barking. AAAAARGH!