"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
...
> 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.

Oh, I know they're smart. There's a sheep herding show somewhere outside the
city each year, and it's amazing what those dogs can do. There's also a guy
here who provides a service to certain communities. You know how some really
lame townhouse developments have big ponds, sometimes with fountains? Well
apparently, architecture schools don't mention geese. So, this local guy
gets paid to spend a week or two at each place, and has trained his dog to
annoy the geese. They actually leave, sometimes for months at a time, after
having their legs gently nipped by the dog.

Not sure what it's like to clean goose crap off the dog's feet, though.
That's the main reason they hire the guy in the first place - it becomes
impossible to walk in these developments.