"ompOmelet" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote:
>
>> Border collies are evil. A relative had one that like to greet visitors
>> by
>> jumping on their chests. One day, I showed up for dinner, straight from
>> work. The dog leapt on me, got its claws stuck in my suit jacket pocket,
>> and
>> tore the left-front of the jacket down to the bottom seam. Ha ha. Too bad
>> it
>> was a new Hickey-Freeman suit. Its owner wrote me a check. Ha ha. Great
>> dog.
>
> I've trained my border collie NOT to jump up on company.
> It's difficult with them but not impossible.
>
> BC's are only evil if the dumbasses that own them don't make an effort
> to train them. They are very responsive and highly intelligent.
>
> It's the owners that are evil not the dog.

Dog owners are trained by their dogs to do the wrong things. This will
generate objections, the use of the word "trained". People prefer to hear
that they "made adjustments to their routines". But, adjustment,
conditioning, training...it's all the same thing.