Zoe
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What can you expect from someone who doesn't get a large dog like that fixed?
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Dog and dog owner injured in Victoria after cat attacks seven pit bulls
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What can you expect from someone who doesn't get a large dog like that fixed?
Alligatorjandro
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I would've fought that cat
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
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Probably because he's predisposed to the fact that he can't control his pet so he doesn't attempt to.
Lord Frieza
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UltimaPooh
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But I thought cats like rekt dogs.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Dogs >>> cats.
Cat owners are strange people
Cat owners are strange people
only dogs that don't care to fight back and are easily intimidated
look we know what happens when a dog many times the size of a cat actually decideds to maul said cat
NekoFever
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Posture and stance. He looks relaxed the whole time. Hauling a dog off something takes effort and you'd be able to see him setting his feet and using his arms if he was putting any in.
Monocle
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It helps to communicate in a way your superiors can understand. Don't be fooled by phrases such as "Have you lost your mind?" Or "Get the hell out of my office before I have security throw you out of the building!"
Some people respond this way to mask their growing respect for you. Probably to avoid making you uncomfortable with their initial instinct to offer up their job and car keys.
Congratulations!
Fuck that dog owner.
Trojita
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sechsterangriff
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People really underestimate how violent cats can be for what it seems no apparent reason. The vet almost had to put mine to sleep because the situation was getting way too dangerous. Thankfully there was an actual "animal psychologist" who observed her behavior and managed to advise on what to change at home. She (our cat) eventually changed her behavior and became much more calmer. We still have to be very careful with strangers though.
It's amazing how little things can influence so much of an animal's behavior.
It's amazing how little things can influence so much of an animal's behavior.
This is probably why I wouldn't mind attaching a Go Pro sort of device to the collar of my (hypothetic) dog because some owners can be incredibly stubborn and selfish towards lack of discipline to their dog such as letting it attack someone else's and then defend this by arguing that the other dog was aggravating theirs.
Liljagare
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I can just say, know that feeling. We rearranged furniture at home, one of our cats was chill, the other went right on berzerk mode. Thought the cat had a stroke or something, suited up to shove it into a cage and took it to the vet.
The cat was completely calm at the vet, who just asked if we had done something at home... ...
Went home, moved the furniture back, cat was normal again. :\ Lil' bugger. But noway did I know before that just how fierce a 2,5 kg cat can look..
oven mitts and leather jacket was needed.FormallyMegadrive
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Aside from the fact he should've walked off as soon as he realised what was happening, what did the dog owner do wrong? Oh right. Nothing.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Eh, I would agree with you, but why tf were they filming it? They knew they were gonna go have a dog eat a kitten or some shit.
My dog would have killed the cat lol
Exactly. Give me a break. Those assholes instigated that whole encounter.
As an ex-owner of a dog and a current owner of a cat, both are awesome and both have their good and bad sides. My current cat likes to be pet and held more than my old dog, and he loves to spend all day near my wife, my baby or me. Not all dogs are cold and distant.
People having those discussions sound so silly when they are actually serious...
One thing I'll say though, is that I have seen a ton of terrible dog owners (using their dogs to intimidate or otherwise), whereas (obviously?) that doesn't really happen with any cat owner.
People having those discussions sound so silly when they are actually serious...
One thing I'll say though, is that I have seen a ton of terrible dog owners (using their dogs to intimidate or otherwise), whereas (obviously?) that doesn't really happen with any cat owner.
Dogs are more domesticated than cats. Many breeds that have been selected as companion-dogs will get beaten up by a cat because they don't really have the instincts. It'll also depend on whose territory it is. If the cat is on dog territory, the dog will be much more combative. If the dog is on cat territory, the dog might just say "Meh, not worth it".
Dogs have much higher bite strength than cats. Although domestic dogs are still generally weaker biters than most wild carnivores like hyenas or coyotes or wolves.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564077/pdf/rspb20042986.pdf
Personally, I love both dogs and cats. They're both cute.
FortuneFaded
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That's some terrible handling by the owner. What is he doing?
wesleyshark
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As good doggos do
Barring diseases like rabies coming into play, I don't think that a cat is actually capable of killing a little kid (not counting sitting on a newborn or something). House cats are usually 8-20 lbs. A cat going nuts on you typically just means some scratches that need to be treated with alcohol and bandages.
The types of dogs that kill people several times that size. The dog equivalent to a cat is something like a shih tzu. How many shih tzu related fatalities have you heard of?
neurosyphilis
Definitely not an STD, as I'm a pure.
Cats are filthy creatures. Always try to avoid those weird ass animals.
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Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
I'm guessing you've never felt a full force cat bite? They're teeth cut through you like you're butter. Pair that, with their instinctual urge to aim for the neck of their prey, I think a cat is capable of killing a baby. I think it's way harder, obviously, and fairly unlikely that a cat would be angered enough by an infant to have it try to kill the baby.
none of this makes sense to me
I thought we were talking about little kids? a 10lb baby and a 30lb toddler aren't the same thing.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Yeah, noticed that. lol whoops. Kid, there's no way.
It just boils down to capacity. There are ill tempered dogs and cats. However, every large breed or powerful medium breed dog is physically capable of killing a kid (and the most powerful breeds can kill adults). The vast majority never would, but when they do go crazy a lot of damage is done. A crazy cat is much more limited by its size, even though we have all seen some pretty bad tempered cats.
SliceSabre
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Dog: "I don't even know why I bother."We have class sirs
TimeEffect
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Reverse the genders and see what happens. People would call for the dogs to be put down, but when a cat does it, it's all "cute" and "dogs are such cowards"
why is it dog owners always coming into threads trying to rationalize their decisions.
Garmonbozia
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Something similar happened to my uncle's pit bull. A street cat scratched its nose, causing an infection that killed it in 2 weeks.
We have class sirs
This is hilarious.
Your dog is that poorly trained?
C00kie M0nster
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The article left out this quote:
Too bad this would be completely meaningless in a great many countries.
Nealand Liquor
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I love how the only newsworthy reports to come out of my hometown are things like this.
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