Its For the Children.
By jimrob | December 9, 2007
Mothers Against Dog Chaining: Home
Here’s another anti-dog chaining site. This is an “initiative” by the same person who founded the anti-chaining organization mentioned in my prior post. (Apparently, one oddball activist organization wasn’t enough.) It seems her daughter was killed by a couple of chained dogs and she now seeks to ban the chaining of dogs.
As a father of two children, I can empathize her loss. I can’t imagine what it would be like for one of my children to die, especially in such a manner. However, when my dog was chained up in the yard (I’ve since put him in a pen out in the yard) I made dang sure my daughter wouldn’t wander over there and get flipped ass-over-teakettle by the dog’s chain.
I don’t know if the founder’s child was strangled, mauled, or what, but I certainly wouldn’t blame the act of chaining a dog on the incident. If the dog mauled the kid, then put the dog down. The chain didn’t do it. If the kid was strangled, then it was a horrible freak accident that probably could have been prevented by parental supervision. Sorry, but its the truth.
One theory espoused on the anti-chaining site is that chaining a dog up makes them violent and territorial. I do not believe this is the case. My dog was chained for two years in the yard. The neighbors, however, let their dogs run around in their yard. I had to buy a kennel for my dog, who is a docile and friendly creature, because their free-roaming un-chained hellions kept coming over and attacking him. After numerous calls to the police by myself and others, this person’s dogs were eventually taken away and put down by the city. (I know, I’m a dog Hitler. So sue me.)
My dog - Chained, friendly, playful.
Their dogs - Free-roaming, unchained, violent rapists.
Dogs become violent through mistreatment, genetics, and environment; not by how you keep them corralled in your yard.
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