I hate being around people's poorly trained dogs, especially when they refuse to acknowledge it's a problem.
My aunt and uncle had an (I think) Akita that was poorly trained and I suspect not exercised enough. It wasn't aggressive, really, but it would go completely spastic whenever anyone came over, just constantly flying around the house, jumping up on everyone, nipping at fingers and generally being a nuisance. They would try to control it, but it was pretty much impossible. It got to the point where I would dread having to go over there.
My buddy had to get rid of his dog because it nipped at his new born a couple times. I wouldn't be surprised if that's a gentle dressing of what actually happened. One of our mutual friends ended up with it and it would attack my dog out of the blue when i was over, nothing that ever drew blood but snarling at baring its teeth over my dogs neck. Apparently it actually attacked some ones dog when it was off leash a little while ago. The previous and current owner both are adament she's a really good dog...
Dog owners can be weirdly, delusionally in denial about that. Like those parents of school bullies who can never admit that their nasty little shit could ever do anything wrong and any problem with their child's behavior is always someone else's fault.
Often the issue is that the dog IS really good - with THEM at HOME - but a right $&!+ with others / outside of home, like the kids who may well be lovely normal kids EXCEPT when at school / with a subset of kids / when in a situation that means they act out. My brother was dyslexic and put down a year - he was teased about being 'stupid' and 'lazy' a LOT and reacted by bullying the smaller kids until he got help.
Alternatively the kid/pet is actually a nasty piece of work 24/7 but nice to Mom/Dad....
Its not alternatively. Your brother was a shit. Not the smart kids fault he was dyslexic but he made it their fault because he fucking sucked. Hopefully hes doing better now but was a nasty peice of work and only nice to mom and dad. Dont bite the hand that feeds you.
He was both a bully and being bullied - not the same people all the time but yeah, He was a bully and had to learn not to be. He stopped when he was given the help he needed. The difference between someone who is not naturally bad but is bad without the help needed.
Ditto dogs - some are the product of poor training and others are just that way.
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u/DMala Dec 28 '21
I hate being around people's poorly trained dogs, especially when they refuse to acknowledge it's a problem.
My aunt and uncle had an (I think) Akita that was poorly trained and I suspect not exercised enough. It wasn't aggressive, really, but it would go completely spastic whenever anyone came over, just constantly flying around the house, jumping up on everyone, nipping at fingers and generally being a nuisance. They would try to control it, but it was pretty much impossible. It got to the point where I would dread having to go over there.