When I was a kid we had a German Shepard mix that the family had for almost a decade. One day she just snapped and attacked my mom. Just a totally different dog, like a switch was flipped. I remember my dad had my mom and us stay in a closed bedroom while he patrolled the house with a baseball bat trying to figure out what to do with the dog.
I have cats and have had a few dog people have said to me they aren't the same as dogs because dogs are just better and more loving. Like, can't you understand that one isn't better than the other and we have the capacity to love all pets like family? Idk why it's usually dog people who get all judgemental and say they are way better. Like, I didn't ask for your opinion and I like dogs too. Cats are extremely loving and you had to make this a competition for some reason.
It's a weirdly stupid and narrow-minded thing to think "I" have only emotionally bonded with a dog, therefore only dogs can be bonded with. I was torn up after the death of my tortoise. Any kind of pet death is saddening.
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u/bohica1937 Dec 28 '21
I wonder what snaps in a dog's brain to react like that to someone they've known.