Posted on 11/14/2010 5:55:19 AM PST by stillafreemind
Gerald Rushton was killed by his pet European red stag deer. While feeding the animal he was attacked by the buck and was stomped and gored by it. This was all witnessed by his granddaughter who immediately ran to get Mrs. Rushton who then called 911 for help.
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Get back to me when ya got a picture of the bear on a carton of milk...
“Last week they cornered a bear and ate him.”
Tragedies such as this are the reason we must maintain the right to arm bears!
Don’t ask me.
Mine’s feral.
Captured him myself, running with a pack of wild Dobermanns in the mountains of Hungary.
What a hell of an adventure *that* was.
/facepalm
Bambi likes blood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQOQdBLHrLk&NR=1
In Scotland, they were scarfing up a *lot* of critters.
Mine is a Euro and none of his ancestors were allowed to breed unless one or both parents held SCH or other working titles.
First Dobermann I haven’t had to protection train.
He was born knowing his job...and he does it exceedingly well.
LOL
RIP.
Baron was one of the great loves of my life. When he died, I felt like I had the heart ripped out of me. People used to look at Baron and say they were scared of Dobermans. I would say, “Well have you ever owned one?” When they would say, No,” I would reply, “Well if you ever owned one, you’d really be scared of them. Their strength, agility, and speed is far beyond what most people can even imagine.”
Dobies have such incredible loyalty that they are well-nigh incapably of hurting their owners. But anyone else — don’t get too comfortable!
Abso - friggin - lutely. I’m on my third dobe and I think this one is the best one. They’re basically 4 legged human beings the way I look at it. And like you say, incredibly strong and agile. Mine will nip at me when playing (which I really shouldn’t allow but there ya go) but he’d never hurt me. He’s about 80 lbs. of pure muscle and drive. And a bark to go with it.
Not sure how you came to that conclusion.
We still kill a lot more of them then they kill of us and back in the good ol days they killed a lot more of us then they do now days.
I wish I could get another Dobie. But after losing Baron, I know I could never go through that heartbreak again. It was like losing a beloved young son.
What you are describing is apparently all too common. I bought my Dobe from a breeder who is also a vet. We were discussing this sort of thing and she said she had any number of clients (I guess this could be of her Vet practice or of her breeding business) who had one Dobie and then said that they wouldn’t get another because “It hurt too much”. They really are 4 legged people.
“Who gets the deer? Me or the dawg??”
#8 on that thread has grown a life of it’s own....
Yes, unfortunately, apparently my experience has been shared by many others. This is not the first time I’ve heard that people who have owned one Doberman can bear the thought of losing a second one.
And you’re right: they are like four-legged people. Baron was like my alter ego. All I had to do was look in his direction, and he seemed to know what I was thinking. The pain of our parting was so deeply painful that even after two years, it is still hard even to look back on the good times without feeling the devastating loss.
I do treasure every day with mine - even though he does drive me crazy from time to time. So sorry for your loss.
You know, it’s really funny, but in the final year of Baron’s life (he lived to be almost 11 years old), I sometimes used to reach over in the middle of the night just to hug him to my side because, though he wasn’t sick in the slightest, I sensed that one day soon, I would no longer have that sheer joy.
They are very special companions. Those who have never owned one would quite naturally have difficulty understanding.
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