Originally Posted by samundsen
If you're not a dog person, you don't own a dog, you don't much like dogs, you see three dogs come chasing after you and surround you, you get scared. So was the family with the kids. So was the guy from next door.
But this doesn't give you the right to kick them, or demand they be put down. It's the person's predjudces and fears. Living in the deep south I hear a lot about certain people that should be "sent back to whereever they come from" and such. Just because the people who say these things have never delt with another group of people (or animal) does not give them the right to carte blanche bash them in the face or otherwise assault them upon contact.
I think this is being blown up way bigger than it was intended to. I certainly don't think anyone here would kick fido in the face for no reason, but there just seems to be a lot of pro-dog-violence in these forums. I hear enough of this at work. (My boss "corrects" his large Rottweiler with a paint can to the head.)
Vincent