More media nonsense

[Horsefeathers!]

I tried to dig up a link from the local news station that initially reported on this, but there was only a little blurb that was NOTHING like the televised report.

Several kids have been mauled and even killed by dogs in this area this year (no clue if it's more, less, or about average... they didn't say and I haven't researched it). One boy was mauled by a pack of dogs earlier this year. The reporting for that went something like, "a Doberman Pinscher and some other dogs mauled a boy..." It said nothing about the other dogs being Labs and mixes.

They did a little blurb tonight about dangerous dogs and how to be safe. First of all, I know that animal control is a hard job. I can respect the people that are out there cleaning up the messes and dealing with the crap from irresponsible people. However, at least in this area, you don't have to really have any kind of formal training or background to be an animal control officer. Basically, anyone can do it. My reason for pointing this out is that, like in any field, some people are just plain smarter than others. They chose to interview someone that clearly doesn't know her b u t t from a hole in the ground. She quite literally could have just quit her job at Burger King last week and started working as an animal control officer this week having never seen a dog before in her life. I just don't think she is qualified to give this type of interview, even not knowing her background with dogs (she could have a background with them for all I know, but her interview made her sound as if she were making it up as she went along).

Reporter: So how do you know which dogs are dangerous? How do you decide?

Idjut: Well, if you have kids, you certainly want to avoid Pit Bulls. They have this strong prey drive thing going on and anyone with children would want to avoid that. Also, Huskies, Dalmatians, and (I think) Rottweilers can be really high strung. Then there are also toy breeds that don't get along well with children, and some terriers...

Paraphrased there, of course. This buttwhistle bonehead basically seemed to be saying that if you have children, you don't need a dog. To watch the interview, she instantly jumped on the "people with kids don't need Pit Bulls..." thing and I think along the way, she realized it and tried to clean it up by basically saying Huskies, Dalmatians, toy dogs, and whatever's left aren't necessarily good with kids, either. I could have stomached it a lot better if she'd just said, "well, any dog can be dangerous..." instead of her little dog and pony trick before ultimately saying the same thing.

I sure don't know why they don't have that covered on the website. Usually, their website is basically a duplicate of the televised reports.

[JackieMaya]

[quote name='CoalSky']
No dogs and kids don't always go well together, but they CAN go great together if you know how to supervise propperly, teach your kids and dogs to be respectful, and don't let them together unsupervised.

I would say that sums up the whole entire nothing but the truth kit and kaboodle about dogs and kids!

[imported_Irena]

[quote name='JackieMaya'][quote name='CoalSky']
No dogs and kids don't always go well together, but they CAN go great together if you know how to supervise propperly, teach your kids and dogs to be respectful, and don't let them together unsupervised.

I would say that sums up the whole entire nothing but the truth kit and kaboodle about dogs and kids!

dito, i couldn't say it better.
i'm sorry but people just love to learn in the hard way, this deaths from dogs are only helped to people to thonk before they going to a dog. before that if i was walking my dog i never knew from where the next kid will jump on me, it's my luck that my dogs get along great with kids or els the would have surly kill some of them and now suddenly perents ask before they approch your dog, they paing attantion, they don't just grab your dog and after an hour remmber to ask if it's OK.

[xavierandrea]

OMG... I got me 3 Rockwilders :eek2: ... I need to rehome these children...what to do?? :errrr: where's the nearest rescue???? :eek3:

[cheechweech]

DANGit...I gots me one of them Pit Bulls here an I got me some of them terrier types too....anyone know where I can get rid of these kids at before summink bad happens?

LOL

[xavierandrea]

Michele napisał(a):

CHEECH: what about us??? we have those little "toys"..those little dangerous chihuahuas......LMAOOOOOOO

Michele... If anything just call for :Help_2: If your dangerous :dog: acts vicious in any way....

[Ash]

Well I'm glad she took on the tough task of animal control. It's something I could never do. I think she'll learn with time. Not everybody knows everything when starting a job. Give it time and she'll learn.

[Horsefeathers!]

My issue isn't with her inexperience and how much she can or will learn. My issue is that someone grossly unqualified to give that type of interview is spouting off dangerously erroneous information as if it is hardcore fact. Give her all the time in the world she needs to learn that job... just let someone more qualified handle the press stuff.