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hunter

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17. In my personal experience dogs are less dangerous than people. Even bad dogs.

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:39 PM

Oct 2025

So are bears and mountain lions.

Feral pigs?

I stay clear of those.

Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

-- George Orwell, Animal Farm

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He doesn't like animals, more like afraid of them - flags of "psychopath ... dark personality traits" [View all] UTUSN Oct 2025 OP

In a lot of horror movies they kill the dog off early in the story. milestogo Oct 2025 #1

I'm with you on that one. I will not watch movies where animals die. Walleye Oct 2025 #3

I have not watched a movie in many many years for which I did not check out the storyline--and if it includes the hlthe2b Oct 2025 #4

I think it was "The Call of the Wild",when I read that in school that it turned me out off permanently to Walleye Oct 2025 #10

I believe it. hlthe2b Oct 2025 #2

Pets are part of the family. Some people who didn't grow up with pets and don't have any just don't understand. Walleye Oct 2025 #8

That's where we Childless Cat Ladies come in. Ocelot II Oct 2025 #9

to love and live with happily - (why do I get 403 Forbidden posting with quotation marks? ) UTUSN Oct 2025 #22

First thing the cops do when showing up to roust Klarkashton Oct 2025 #5

Dog shooters get cabinet appointments in this administration. God motherfucking damn. Walleye Oct 2025 #7

Not in Colorado. I worked with a group to pass a law to require nonlethal attempts and mandatory training for police hlthe2b Oct 2025 #12

Lots of vague exceptions there. Klarkashton Oct 2025 #13

They have to answer for it and some cops have been demoted. It is a start. You should at least appreciate THAT. hlthe2b Oct 2025 #16

I've lost a dog to the cops. How about that? Klarkashton Oct 2025 #18

Your experience and those like it are the very reason we worked for three years to get this law passed. hlthe2b Oct 2025 #20

I deride the cops not you. Klarkashton Oct 2025 #21

I much prefer living in an apartment complex that's pet friendly Walleye Oct 2025 #6

Then there are those with their own gravel pit kill areas like Kristi Noem Blues Heron Oct 2025 #11

I still cannot believe she did that-- or that she published having done so! hlthe2b Oct 2025 #15

But, like everything - this conclusion must be taken in context, yellow dahlia Oct 2025 #14

In my personal experience dogs are less dangerous than people. Even bad dogs. hunter Oct 2025 #17

I put people who abuse animals in the same category Bayard Oct 2025 #19