While many people are besotted fools for dogs, wildlife and other animals aren’t so easily duped. Dogs are routinely sprayed by skunks, stabbed by porcupines, bitten by rattlesnakes, squeezed by pythons, stomped by moose, pummeled by deer, carried off by eagles, attacked by raccoons, stung by bees, swatted by cats, kicked by horses, butted by goats, gored by wild boar, hissed at by swans, and eaten by alligators and catfish.
Yes, catfish! Giant catfish will scarf down small
dogs. The clueless owner throws a stick into a murky river, their small dog cluelessly swims in after it, and suddenly a huge gaping mouth emerges, and the dog is gone, along with the stick. I read about this hilarious scenario in Ideas and Discoveries, a science magazine. I know as a personal fact about a dog that was carried off by a bird of prey. This is no urban legend: A familty friend was walking her tiny chihuahua in the front yard when a large bird, (eagle or hawk) swooped down and carried it off.
Coyotes will kill dogs of all sizes. One memorable instance involved a dog running off leash ahead of its owner. The dog was equipped with a GPS device attached to the collar, so the owner could keep tabs on it. The whippet-type breed ran out of sight, but no worries, not with the GPS! When the owner caught up to her dog, several coyotes were hunched over its body. Hey, at least the GPS still worked!
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This is only ONE reason why only morons let their dogs run off leash.
I’ve read that in South America, birds of prey have carried of babies!
lol…i know dogs are so stupid!
I think all dogs should be eliminated only exception should be for people that are blind, or police K9 units..as dogs are volient and can be shot down by officers! Dogs in general make me sick and i find them disgusting. People who think dogs are their brothers, sisters, daughters and sons…need a good therapist immediately! There is something wrong in a human being that regards its dog to be a daughter! Get real adopt a child if you want a “daughter“! Even other animals kick the shit out of your dirty vile dog!
Ever realized that a child requires a bit more work and money than a dog? DogS and children are tottaly different things, you can’t replace a dog with a kid, or vice versa. So maybe some people want a lot of love with a little less work, therefore a dog instead of having another kid. Children are much bigger responsibilities than animals, my friend.
Children are also a heck of a lot more important to a culture than dogs are. And for the umpteenth time, dogs can’t love!!!! You’re being fooled by mindless pack instincts and selective breeding!! Don’t flatter yourself that your dog loves you. It can’t!
You have to pick up a dogs shit for it’s entire life. Sounds like a bigger responsibility to me. By age 2 or 3 a human will know how to use a toilet and by teenage years will be able to earn at least part of a living if that is a consideration. Why would you want the constant nagging for attention from a dog? I personally only want the dogs I encounter to shut up, and go away. You should wonder what it is about you that makes you need so much “love.”
Dogs are banned from most Australian National Parks mainly to protect the wildlife. You can’t trust the dumb f*@%k dog worshippers to do the right thing & keep them on a lead & pick the shit up.
Dogs are banned in most national parks in the US as well. You’re not allowed to even take it out of the car for a piss. I think that’s fair. One dog running loose can cause alot of damage to the native wildlife. And like Bill said; you can’t trust dog owners to do the right thing by cleaning up after their shitfactory OR keep it leashed and under their control.
So it’s the irrisponsible owners fault, not the dogs fault.
Wolfgirl, you sound exactly like an indoctrinated dog worshiper, complete with mantras like “it’s not the dog’s fault” and “dogs give love.” Ooooh, dogs are SO PERFECT, that the only way to mess them up is when they are owned by a bad person. BS!!
Well wolfgirl’s right, it IS the owners fault. and she wasnt saying that they were perfect! plus, everyone has there own special animal that they love, and animals that they hate. she likes dogs u dont. so what!?
I don’t love any animals. I realize many are useful, tasty, some even healthy to eat. I know it’s necessary to use land and natural resources; but I don’t think it’s good for people to cause mass extinctions. I am glad my ancestors caused sabertooth tigers to become extinct. Who needs them lurking around European suburbs?
I really wouldn’t be talking. Whithout clothes, food, or water, how long would YOU survive in the wild? Probably not much longer than (or not as long as) a dog! And what about the wolves and the coyotes your talking about? THEY ARE DOGS TOO U IDIOT
Hey, we human beings have a big brain. A brain which invented clothes, camping gear, GPS, cell phones, freeze dried food, matches, weapons, vehicles, and all the other stuff that oh, I don’t know, made us become the most successful mammal on the planet.
Yeah! Dogs invented-well, shit and vomit.
Dogs were invented, domesticated, by humans for specific purposes. Hunting, herding, killing rats. There was no widespread keeping of them as pets until the late 19th century. By the British. They, and their shit and vomit, were kept outdoors, in rural areas.
HAHAHAHA Dimitros is so damn hilarious i had a dog for 10 years and u can say watever the HELL u want, but dogs have a brain, dumbass, and are smarter than some of the humans i know, so bullFUCKINGshit!!!! dogs can love any more than humans can. i recieved a message on youtube to spam the shit out of this website, and from what sick people leave comments, i think i might as well be the biggest damn troll on the history of this earth.
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Wolfgirl, you sound exactly like an indoctrinated dog worshiper, complete with mantras like “it’s not the dog’s fault” and “dogs give love.” Ooooh, dogs are SO PERFECT, that the only way to mess them up is when they are owned by a bad person. BS!!
Too true. If dogs are so human as their besotted, idiotic owners like to claim, then as a human they would have warring emotions, bad days, bad moods and sometimes… bad intentions. Dog owners simultaneously build dogs up to heroic status while claiming they are too stupid for any kind of negative action