Not exact matches
It is not because your
dog was
abused or because she came from a
poor breeder or shelter.
While this is something that we are trying to stop, it is difficult to help these
poor, innocent
dogs from being neglected and
abused.
My study of
dog bite - related fatalities occurring over the past five decades has identified the
poor ownership / management practices involved in the overwhelming majority of these incidents: owners obtaining
dogs, and maintaining them as resident
dogs outside of regular, positive human interaction, often for negative functions (i.e. guarding / protection, fighting, intimidation / status); owners failing to humanely contain, control and maintain their
dogs (chained
dogs, loose roaming
dogs, cases of
abuse / neglect); owners failing to knowledgably supervise interaction between children and
dogs; and owners failing to spay or neuter
dogs not used for competition, show, or in a responsible breeding program.
Crowded, squalid conditions,
abuse, no veterinary care or socialization,
poor food, no clean water, lack of adequate exercise space and more, this is the plight of
dogs and cats in «Puppy Mills or «Kitten Mills» (Yes, there are kitten mills too!)
When you do try to train your
dog not to jump, the person on the street or at the park will look at you as if your
poor pup is being
abused by the Wicked Witch of the West.
Abuse, neglect,
poor socialization, bad training, illness,
poor breeding, etc. can all play a part in which
dogs have aggressive tendencies.
Among more than a thousand
dogs helped annually by ESRA, many come into our care from extreme circumstances and in
poor condition — some are sick, malnourished, infected with parasites, filthy and matted, suffering from neglect and perhaps even
abuse.
Happens all the time, and the
poor dog gets no attention, neglect is a form of
abuse.
These
dogs often suffer unimaginable
abuse and this
poor fella still wears the scars of his former life as a bait
dog.
«The formula for creating a dangerous
dog has been demonstrated (use in negative functions,
abuse,
poor socialization, chaining,
dogs maintained as a pack, etc.).
People are much more the problem than the
poor mishandled
dogs who have a life time of suffering,
abuse and usually death in the back room of a shelter or in the fighting ring.
I am so thoroughly disappointed in this man right now as I think back on the
poor dogs I have encountered in my life, rescued from puppy mills with their never ending health problems, sociability problems, scars from
abuse, deformities from been bred over and over while crammed in a small cage........
He was obviously no animal lover and just kept these
poor dogs to use and
abuse, and to make him some easy money.
Unless traumatized through neglect or
abuse, most of these lighthearted
dogs greet strangers with an open heart and wagging tails, making them
poor guard
dogs.
Those scars came from the
abuse and neglect this
poor dog went through.
«10 Delise, based upon her study of fatal attacks over the past five decades, has identified Â
poor ownership / management practices involved in the overwhelming majority of these incidents: owners obtaining
dogs, and maintaining them as resident
dogs outside of the household for purposes other than as family pets (i.e. guarding / protection, fighting, intimidation / status); owners failing to humanely contain, control and maintain their
dogs (chained
dogs, loose roaming
dogs, cases of
abuse / neglect); owners failing to knowledgably supervise interaction between children and
dogs; and owners failing to spay or neuter resident
dogs not used for competition, show, or in a responsible breeding program.4
The most dangerous
dogs are those that fall victims to human shortcomings such as
poor training, irresponsible ownership and breeding practices that foster viciousness or neglect and
abuse.