Work Peeve

[Canis erectus]

I finished up my laundry tonight and noticed the most beautifully ragged tear in my slacks. Looking back in my day today the culprit stands out as the boisterous Golden Ret puppy with the razor claws and the owner who allowed him to leap all over me. :evil:

Why do so many people insist on not having any control of their beasts? An excited puppy I can tolerate, but the worst offense is made by those folks (and there are many) who are completely inept at getting their dog on a scale. I work in a vet hospital, I know there are some of you who do as well and probably understand the frustration I endure. Others of you may be offenders (c'mon I know there's gotta be at least one or two), and to you I will you to become a fiery sacrifice to the great sweaty Polynesian volcano gods. OK, I'm kidding about the sacrificing, I reserve that fate for over-rated and over-hyped pop stars.

Anyway, I can't even count the number of times a day when a client stubbornly insists on having their dog weighed while 'Rex' is jumping and bounding all over the place. Then follows the inefectual command, "Sit". Which is soon repeated, "Sit... Sit... Sit... Sit... Sit... OK. Good boy, stay... No, sit... Sit... Sit..." and so on. Argh, I sometimes wonder if these people ahve actually deluded themselves into thinking they are in control of their pet.

Better yet is when the client is just standing by the scale stoopified and looking helplessly at their little beast as it meadners circles around it's owner with a loose leash flapping around in the breeze. Come on, they're not even trying!!!

How is it that people refuse to get some semblence of control? I probably demand less of my dogs in the behavior department than most folks, but if I need them to hold still they will do so one way or another. And if they don't want to stand where I want them to, by god I will pick them up and put them there. You'd think that if a body lacked the patience or mental fortitude to train or otherwise control their dog that they wouldn't want one to begin with. Gee, I wonder why so many otherwise perfectly good pets end up turned over to animal control simply because they've become too much of a hassle to deal with.

There, that little rant has been bubbling it's way to the surface for some time now, my poor ravaged slacks just needed to serve as a catalyst. Please mourn with me now, good linen pants are so hard to come across.

[Pumpkin the musher]

Unfortunately this predisposition to allow their dogs to run amok also applies to their children. :evil:

[nadooshkinz]

K napisał(a):

But but but but....Devils advocate here...what do you realy truly think of the people like me...who are extremely strict with thier kids and dogs alike in public...I have no fear of using appropriate tones but tend to get looked at like I am a puppy killer or a child abuser...but at least my kids and dogs are silent and sat still...which is worse?...me or them?

Good point K, I guess it all depends on personal opinion, IMO, I'd prefer people like you. People who can control their kids in a public place, come off as good parents to me, not child abusers :wink: Same with dogs, I absoloutely despise people who can't control their dogs in public, especially when they start to jump on me/clea :roll:

[Crystal]

Oh my K, you said what I was thinking. Our kids and dog are made to behave and people look at you horribly. The other day these kids were running all over walmart while there parents chated with some friends. They were knocking things over and screaming, the parents totally ignoring there existance. Our kids were walking quietly holding our hands. They aren't even allowed to touch things and when the reach for something they are told no. People act like you are horrible.

Toby is fairly well behaved. He learned sit within a couple of days, stay is not so great. Stay, yes ok for all of maybe 1 minute. The vet just weighed him while holding him, then weighed himself and subtracted. I used to do that with McKenzie and she weighed a good 75 lbs or more at the time. She would stand on the scale at the vet, but when I wanted to know at home we had to get on the bathroom scale. It was hilarioius.

[Canis erectus]

Divine: LOL @ the purse bit. Some folks are just far too uncoordinated for the saftey of those around them.

K: i think the dirty looks that you and others get stems from the "Helicopter Parenting" that is so prominant these days. You know them, the parents who constantly attend their children and make sure they provide for every possibly whim the kids could have. Of course their little snot-miner can do no wrong and these parents become shocked when seeing another parent applying discipline. The helicopter parent finds the concept so foreign, all they can think of is abuse.

On the other hand, I'm going to assume that you are not the sort of person to raise a hand to your kids (or dogs) at the slightest provocation, but there are plenty of folks who publicly beat and scream at their children. Most of us have seen these scenarios played out more than once, so you should be able to understand why some folks would have a bad feeling about children who may APPEAR to be meekly cowering beneath the adamant rule of a tyrant.

Of course most of the above also applies to dogs and their owners as well.

Personally, i doubt I could care less if a dog or child is generally well behaved or not. But their parent/owner should damn well have them under control when presenting them to other people.

[Pumpkin the musher]

Slight thread drift here- Being the militant (and vocal! :diablotin: ) childfree person that I am, I submit, for your enjoyment, or irritation...(Saw this on another dog board)

HELP NEEDED ASAP: Please help!!!! After two long years of being on a waiting list for an agility dog, we have been notified by the breeder that, at long last, our number has come up and ...WE ARE HAVING A PUPPY!!! We must get rid of our children IMMEDIATELY because we just know how time consuming our new little puppy is going to be and it just wouldn't be fair to the children. Since our little puppy will be arriving on Monday we MUST place the children into rescue this weekend! They are described as: One male - His name is Tommy, Caucasian (English/Irish mix), light blonde hair, blue eyes. Four years old. Excellent disposition. He doesn't bite. Temperament tested. Does have problems with peeing directly in the toilet. Has had chicken Pox and is current on all shots. Tonsils have already been removed. Tommy eats everything, is very clean, house trained &gets along well with others. Does not run with scissors and with a little training he should be able to read soon. One female - Her name is Lexie, Caucasian (English/Irish mix), strawberry blonde hair, green eyes quite freckled. Two years old. Can be surly at times. Non-biter, thumb sucker. Has been temperament tested but needs a little attitude adjusting occasionally. She is current on all shots, tonsils out, and is very healthy &can be affectionate. Gets along well with other little girls &little boys but does not like to share her toys and therefore would do best in a one child household. She is a very quick learner and is currently working on her house training-shouldn't take long at all. We really do LOVE our children so much and want to do what's right for them; that is why we contacted a rescue group. But we simply can no longer keep them. Also, we are afraid that they may hurt our new puppy. I hope you understand that ours is a UNIQUE situation and we have a real emergency here!!! They MUST be placed into your rescue by Sunday night at the latest or we will be forced to drop them off at the orphanage or along some dark, country road. Our priority now has to be our new puppy.

[pyrless]

just in defense of (my) otherwise well-trained and socialized dogs-Sasha hates the feel of that metal scale under her feet and she is 100 pounds, so it can be difficult to get her on the scale too and takes some "cajoling" (read, pushing ) on my part. Just my $.02... :D

[CincoandDahlilasgirl]

nadooshkinz napisał(a):

K napisał(a):

But but but but....Devils advocate here...what do you realy truly think of the people like me...who are extremely strict with thier kids and dogs alike in public...I have no fear of using appropriate tones but tend to get looked at like I am a puppy killer or a child abuser...but at least my kids and dogs are silent and sat still...which is worse?...me or them?

Good point K, I guess it all depends on personal opinion, IMO, I'd prefer people like you. People who can control their kids in a public place, come off as good parents to me, not child abusers :wink: Same with dogs, I absoloutely despise people who can't control their dogs in public, especially when they start to jump on me/clea :roll:

I know where u r coming from Nadooshkinz and K. :wink: What I hate is when we take the dogs to petco and someones dog see's me with my dog(s) in the isle and their dog starts barking and most of the time Cinco and Dahlila will just look at them or not give them any attention at all or will let them meet and THEIR dog will start getting all jumpy and they'll yell at me saying I need to control my dogs cuz they're scaring their dog. I'm just like "um hello my dogs aren't barking and jumping all over the place." :roll: The last time at petco some lady yelled at my mom cuz Cinco supposedly kept scaring her dog by barking at it. Her dog barked at Cinco whenever it walked by us :roll:

[JackieMaya]

Pumpkin: That is so funny!

I hate when I see parents of either animals or kids who don't make their kids/animals behave. So many are just oblivious as to what their kid/animal is doing, although they're bugging the crap out of everyone else!

My animals (both dogs and horse) are very spoiled, but they are all very well-behaved. I might have to use a stern voice once in a while, but I never have to yell. They know that I'm the alpha and that what I say goes, but they also know that I love them more than anything!

There are lots of people who think that discipline equals getting mean or hitting or screaming. NOT!

[Sharpeigirl]

Zeus thinks the scale is a big scary monster that's going to eat him, so I had to heft all 90lbs of him on the scale by hand.. I don't know why he's so freaked out by them..

[JackieMaya]

Isn't it funny how some dogs will think that something as innocent as a scale is so scary?

When I had Pooh Bear get on the scale, he got right on it and sat down for a minute, then rolled over so we could scratch his tummy. LOL