In article >,
"Doug Kanter" > wrote:

> "SD" > wrote in message
> ups.com...
> >
> > Doug Kanter wrote:
> >> "Goomba38" > wrote in message
> >> ...
> >> > Doug Kanter wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> Good parents, good dog owners. I suspect that the opposite would be
> >> >> dogs
> >> >> which slobber all over new visitors, even as the visitors gently (or
> >> >> harder) knee them in the face. What the hell's wrong with people like
> >> >> that, pretending not to notice that people don't want to be slobbered?
> >> > I'm a good parent and a good dog owner. My dogs do lick plates and
> >> > cookware yet never slobber on visitors.
> >> > Goomba
> >>
> >> Good for you. I once entered a relative's house, and her stupid border
> >> collie leapt onto my chest, got her claw stuck in the chest pocket of a
> >> $600
> >> suit, and tore the left panel right off the jacket. Big learning
> >> experience
> >> for the lady. Expensive, too.
> >
> > It wasn't her stupid border collie. I was HER STUPIDITY in not properly
> > training the dog. Most dog "problems" originate with the owners
> > inability to be responsible dog owners. You're blaming the dog for the
> > failings of it's owner.
> >
> > SD
> >
>
> You're right, but it doesn't matter. Everyone's conditioned by the living
> things they interact with, whether they be people, animals or plants with
> thorns. Dogs train their owners, who cut them way too much slack to do
> stupid things.
>
> And by the way, border collies have no use as pets in a typical
> neighborhood. Selective breeding has created dogs which, if they were
> people, would have flunked all their courses in high school and been in
> juvenile detention centers by age 18.
>
>

<snicker>
Border collies are a real training challenge but are smarter than you
think they are. ;-) I've had to learn dog training all over again with
jewely. I've never had a BC before.

Their main problem is that they are TOO smart!

And hyperactive as hell.

But I love her to pieces and would not give her up for any reason.
She is pure love and devotion.

but she could use some Ritalin. <lol>

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson