Sentences with phrase «dogs as status symbols»

Normally no, however the practices employed by some owners who have the dogs as status symbols can produce an aggressive animal purely due to the dog's willingness to please their owner.

The people creating the most problem with dogs are: those using dogs as status symbols for the wrong reasons; undereducated owners who do not realize the time it takes to properly raise any dog; those who unintentionally allow undesired behaviors to grow and fail to address them.

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How is it not a status symbol for some wealthy American to buy a supposedly rescued dog as a Valentine's Day present?

See CDC dog fatalities report from 1979 - 1998, and those numbers have climbed even higher thanks to the ghetto trash who misuse this breed for fighting and as a status symbol.

What breed is most often exploited at this time, as status symbols for doing bad things, guarding drugs, belonging to gangs, and in dog fighting?

Uncaring owners have taken a friendly breed and through lack of training and socialization, made their dogs aggressive either to fight other dogs or as status symbols.

Until we as a society recognize that any breed will react differently if is part of the family versus an outside dog that is purchased to be utilized as a guard dog, a status symbol or for monetary purposes, there will continue to be tragedies.

Ornamental dogs had been used as status symbols the world over for centuries.

The ownership of purebred dogs has always been seen as a status symbol in the western parts of Istanbul.