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Sounds like abuse to me. Doing something that hurts the animal to the point it cries / yelps? Abuse. And the dog may not bite now, but eventually it probably will. And when it does if it's enough to require stitches - or worse - the dog will be seized, labeled aggressive and probably be euthanized because this jack*** is abusing it.
I agree. If this moron is your boyfriend you need to leave and take the dog. Find a rescue that will take it in or something so it can be safe. And get yourself therapy if this guy is your BF because you obviously have very poor taste in men and need to find out why.
He's not my boyfriend, just a friend. By the way, he's not talking to me right now anyways. I don't care if he never contacts me again. He was being a jerk lately.
He's not my boyfriend, just a friend. By the way, he's not talking to me right now anyways. I don't care if he never contacts me again. He was being a jerk lately.
Oh good!!!
Hey, he's not talking to you? Bonus for you!! Yay!!!! Guy sounds like a creep. I'd report him to your local animal group to look into, just in case. If you have one in your area that cares. Some areas of the country, sadly, don't.
What's your take on this? me and a friend were sitting on the couch. He has a small dog. He kept gently biting the dog's ears and tugging them. The dog kept yelping as he was doing it.
I'd confront him about it but knowing him he'd just brush it off as "playing" He tells me that the dog won't bite him back
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He's not my boyfriend, just a friend. By the way, he's not talking to me right now anyways. I don't care if he never contacts me again. He was being a jerk lately.
It most definitely is abuse. I personally could not sit by and listen to an innocent dog yelp out in pain. Sure, this jerk says the dogs won't bite him back. The problem is, if this dog does, a creep like this will probably slamdunk it against the wall.
It's a shame you didn't speak up and that you're now not talking to him. You should have contacted animal control. Heaven knows what that dog might be going through.
I mean, I torture my dogs by dressing them up or making weird faces at them and barking at them, but I would never do something to them that would actually cause pain.
Pain = abuse...the dog doesn't understand it's playing.
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What's your take on this? me and a friend were sitting on the couch. He has a small dog. He kept gently biting the dog's ears and tugging them. The dog kept yelping as he was doing it.
I'd confront him about it but knowing him he'd just brush it off as "playing" He tells me that the dog won't bite him back
What's your take on this? me and a friend were sitting on the couch. He has a small dog. He kept gently biting the dog's ears and tugging them. The dog kept yelping as he was doing it.
I'd confront him about it but knowing him he'd just brush it off as "playing" He tells me that the dog won't bite him back
Tell your "friend" in no uncertain terms that he will stop biting your dog or he will not longer be welcome in your home or near your dog.
I was watching this TV show once about a guy who raises wolves. Lives somewhere in England, I think. (Here, I found a link: A Man Among Wolves | National Geographic Channel (http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/a-man-among-wolves-2926 - broken link)) He wants to be perceived by his wolves as being part of the pack structure.
There was a scene in which he was sitting in the den with a couple of the cubs and they were being very bitey, as baby puppies tend to do as they try to figure out how rough they can play with their fellows. So this guy held one of the bitey puppies up in his arms and bit down gently and slowly on the tip of the cub's ear until it let out a little squeal. Then the guy instantly released and soothed the animal. The guy explained that he was doing it for bite inhibition purposes...and what this guy was doing seemed very similar to what my dog's mom did with him and his littermates to teach them not to bite. (She tolerated it up to a point, and if they crossed that line, they got a sharp, correcting nip of their own by mama!)
Now...in a situation like the above, the ear-biting thing doesn't really bother me or strike me as being bad. (In fact, I've been on message boards in which the [human] moms have said that when their [human] kids have gone through a biting phase, the moms have bitten back, which generally teaches the kids in a hurry that biting is not okay!)
But if this is an older dog who already knows bite inhibition, and the owner is just messing with the dog by biting and pulling on the ears...well, that doesn't seem okay. It just seems mean and jerky and I really couldn't be friends with a guy who acted like that with his dog. (Reminds me a bit of growing up with an older brother who was constantly punching me or frogging me for no good reason other than he felt like it and I was there. Speaking of mean and jerky....)
If you KNOW that something you do bugs your dog and causes some degree of distress (physical or otherwise), then why do it? I don't get that kind of mentality.
Your friend sounds like he hasn't got a clue....I pity the poor little dog...what a jerk!!
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Guy sounds like a creep. I'd report him to your local animal group to look into, just in case. If you have one in your area that cares. Some areas of the country, sadly, don't.
