Comment on How to Survive Bear Encounters by sonatime

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gracejoy · 10/1/2025, 1:30:59 PM · permalink

9 puppies🤗!!! A friend once had me stay over w/her &amp; her two teenage sons when her Shitsu was due. She come for me in the middle of the night b/c the dog was having trouble &amp; wouldn't let any of them near her🤔. While we're on the topic, stories from long ago...  
  
At work one day, I was in the back of the store updating the catalog &amp; a stray cat was on the outside window ledge (NYC, 1st floor overlooking courtyard). I got her to come in; &amp; I stopped by the vet w/her on the way home: She turned out to be pregnant! Oddly, the adult cat I had fell terribly ill, something w/the heart, &amp; there was nothing to do but put him down (I'd only had him a year, someone had brought him to me before his eyes were open). Mama had her babies soon thereafter (maybe the next day?), &amp; the one male looked like the male I'd just put down (white w/striped spot on the head, left side, &amp; tail). Once they could climb out of the box, before they learned to use the litter box, I had to position myself at night to avoid their little urine spots😅.   
  
As an aside, the sheets had been my grandmother's; &amp; I noticed they were the same pattern as the ones Goldie Hawn was laying on (bottom L) in the movie Overboard (1987).
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Related: A stray dog, I managed to get it to come to me. Someone went home to get a leash, &amp; I called around &amp; found someone to come take it to find a foster home. @hyokkim
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Last  one: Driving through NM(?), I stopped to enjoy the scenery. I heard a meow, &amp; look what was running up to me! I took it with me, fed it whatever I had, put it inside my shirt for safety, &amp; drove until I found a shelter. It wasn't well, &amp; had skin &amp; eye issues, I was lucky I didn't catch something from it. I have so many stories; but these are my only pictures.  
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gracejoy · 10/1/2025, 1:53:01 PM · permalink

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hyokkim · 10/1/2025, 2:46:42 PM · permalink

''There are great dogs, &amp; messed up dogs (often through no fault of their own).''  
  
All messed up dogs are born that way; they have to killed asap, not allowed to breed, passing up more messed up genes.   Just look at the case of pitbull epidemic.    It had not existed prior to 80s.   This pitbull epidemic started in earnest, with a vengeance in 80s, due to both irresponsible breeding and this animal rights nutjobs explosion, to the point now, as I see, about 95% of pitbulls are timebombs, waiting to go up if they live long enough.  This dog attack thing is now spreading beyond pitbulls, even labs/golden retrievers acting up.  In my days, GSDs in 70s ROK, were never known to be attack dogs, but sweet dogs.  Now, a small minority of GSDs are just as bad as pitbulls.    Why I started believing eugenics; whatever trait parents have will be passed down to next generation.   If the parents are born to be jerks, the children have more than 50/50 chance of being jerks.   Even if the children somehow overcome their parents' traits, for themselves, the gene itself cannot be changed, and will be passed down to the grand children.      
  
What I find problematic is this doggy crazies' notion that there are no bad dogs, only bad owners: Lies.     That bad dogs are results of abuse: Not.   I know so many cases where dog was never abused by the owner, raised from puppyhood, with love and care, like a human child, and turned on their owners, with savagery, for no reason, after several years, sometimes as little as one year, some other times, dormant till like 12 years!  
  
All the documented cases where a dog turned on their owners, with no abuse had existed.     All the documented cases where an owner was convicted of severe animal abuse, never turned on the owners, not once!  
  
It's the genes passed down from the parents.   It is this denial by doggy crazies that is the symptom of insane society; dogs can do no wrong.  
  
So the abuse makes dog aggressive is a lie.

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