 "loving" your dogs
If you have never read a book called The Common Years, by Jilly Cooper (a popular English novelist), DON'T. The 3 (positive) reviews on amazon.co.uk talk about her love for her dogs, but she freely admits that she never properly trained them or had them altered. She let them off leash on the common where some of them routinely mounted or attacked other dogs and they all had behavior problems. She had to put down more than one because of their behavior. The worst was when her most beloved (and badly behaved) dog attacked and killed a little girl's Yorkie. The girl's father was a policeman. And Jilly felt soooooo bad when she had to put down her dog. I threw the book in the rubbish and will never read any other books by this woman. |