Quote:
|
Originally Posted by BabyFidgette Sorry to get off topic, but I HAD to say this...3rd language? You write/speak great!  |
That's exactly what I was thinking. English is my first and only language and you're doing better than me.
----
Ok now on to the topic. I didn't vote because I don't know what I would do. At first I thought no not for me but I have a dog(my sister's actually) and when I lived with my parents we were in a neighborhood and he barked. The neighbor turned us in and a man came out and said very politely that he suggested we get a collar for him. There would be fines and eventually loss of our dog if we didn't get him to hush. Now its easy to say find a new home for him but we couldn't. He had food issues and would snap at you if you got near him while he was eating. We were comfortable with this because we were all adults and feed him twice a day and he ate while we were there watching him so he wasn't going to snap at any kids. However we had no family around to give him to and if the animal control people or whoever would've taken him he would've been put down. So I ask this putting a dog down, who has now lived an additional 4 years and still going strong and happy as can be, or putting a collar on him every now and then just to remind him to quite down, which one is worse? He doesn't have to wear it all the time we can put it on him for a day or so and he will be quite for at least few good weeks. Now I know the question was about debarking but I thought to myself if I can put a collar on my dog to quite down then I should be ok with debarking. I'm sure the surgery itself isn't risky, maybe putting the dog under, but not the actually debarking, so the issue isn't so much my dog having surgery its am I ok with my dog not barking 24/7 or barking more quietly, do I think that is wrong? No I don't. So while I would try all the other possible paths first (moving and what not, but its really not always possible to move) if it came down to this was my only option I would do it. I don't know that I could give up my dog, it would be very tough I can say that.