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To: Dan from Michigan
Once dogs kill stock, they cannot be changed back. It is like an addiction to them. These dogs will have to be destroyed; they are a danger to the community.
4 posted on 05/09/2004 3:49:28 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple
These dogs may or may not be re-trainable but plenty of dogs have killed stock and are not a danger to the community.
5 posted on 05/09/2004 3:58:08 PM PDT by Varda (meat-eating vegetarian)
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To: Miss Marple
The farmer said they were also growling at him through the fence. Thank God he had a gun.

Two aggressive St Bernards trying to get through a fence at a person - the man is lucky he wasn't the subject of the story.
7 posted on 05/09/2004 4:10:23 PM PDT by I still care
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To: Miss Marple
Once dogs kill stock, they cannot be changed back. It is like an addiction to them. These dogs will have to be destroyed; they are a danger to the community.

False. I've lived with three Saints. The first one, back when I was a small child, on a few occasions herded sheep into a swamp and killed and ate one of them. One time my aunt had to beat him over the head with the flat side of a shovel to get him to release a neighbor's retriever who's head he had locked his jaws on to. He would also swim out into a near by lake for carp. Although I never saw it, people fishing there told us he looked just like a grizzly on a salmon run. He was always my loyal protector. I still have picture my mother took of me riding him like a pony.

The last one, who died this spring at age thirteen of hip displacia, took a neighbor's loose holstein calf. She was so patient and loving my infant children could and did crawl up to her, take the bone she was chewing away from her, beat her over the head with it, and then crawl away with it! All dogs, like all people, are capable of killing. These particular dogs are the most loyal I know and they can clearly separate people from game. I've never met a bad one.

13 posted on 05/09/2004 5:02:34 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus
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