Dog allergies=relationship demise?

[Els]

Yorkies are not hypo allergenic.

 

There are injections you can get for this type of allergy that work no matter how severe your allergy.

 

Something is not right in this story.

 

This is not true.

 

There is no one-time shot that will completely eradicate your allergy. Geez, I wouldn't have lived through 23 years of eczema if there'd been.

 

The 'shots' you are talking about are usually either immunotherapy (which does not ALWAYS work), or intravenous corticosteroids (which always work, but do NOT to remove the allergy, they only remove the inflammatory response to it). Do you even know the sort of complications constant use of IV corticosteroids can cause?

 

OP, I truly have nothing to say, except I am so sorry for what you're going through, please remind yourself that it's neither your fault nor his, you're both great people and love each other very much, it's just ****ty circumstances that are making things hard for you both. I hope you'll be patient and sit with him through his depression - then maybe, after he's recovered, you both could consider getting a Yorkie. NOT to replace his faithful dogs (who can't be replaced), but to just have one of his own again, to cheer him up. And who knows, maybe 5 years from now, if you're still together, he'll come to love the Yorkie every bit as much as he loved the other dogs.

Edited November 26, 2009 by Elswyth

[Thornton]

BAnd cruel and nasty people - as judged by you or the dog? - deserve to be bitten by an animal?

Yes - if you're cruel and nasty to a dog then you only have yourself to blame if it bites you.

 

Also, the part of my post you didn't quote pertained to dog-owners disregard for the fact that their pets often scare children

If a child has an irrational fear of dogs, that's the fault of the parents, not the fault of the responsible dog owner.

 

If you think the only dogs that bite are mistreated, put your hand in the way of any dog's food-bowl and see what happens.

I could take food out of my dog's mouth and she wouldn't try to bite me. I don't know what sort of freaky dogs you've been around if they bite you when you try to take food away from them.

 

Not desirable for the dog-owner! But you are right in a way, dogs do want and need sex as much as humans do - we just chop their balls off and keep them mostly separated from their own kind so they can't.

Dogs do not want and need sex as much as humans do. Dogs don't have the emotional component of sex, they procreate based on an urge which happens maybe once a year for female dogs.

 

But like all animals they do have an instinct to procreate and the females are probably not happy with their pups being taken from them before they fulfill their natural role to raise them, even if it's for a few months.

Dogs only keep their puppies for a few months, even in the wild. Puppies aren't supposed to be taken away from their mothers before they're two months old, and most responsible breeders would wait until 3 months old. My dog was 3 months old when I got her, and her mother was already starting to reject her.

 

Yes, I meant if I was the owner.

Saying someone else's dog would love you if you were their owner, is like saying someone else's child would love you if you were their mother. The fact is the child forms a bond with its own mother, and thereafter it loves that person as its mother. The fact that the child could have been born to someone else is beside the point. The same goes for dogs - dogs form an attachment to one person, and whether they could have been bought by someone else is beside the point.

 

I am not saying dogs are desperately unhappy with living with humans, they just don't know what they are missing. Unconditional 'love' is easy when the animal has no options. But take them for a walk in the park and let them see another dog and you see who they really want to interact with.

I walk my dog in the park - it smells other dogs and humans, and then runs after me to catch up. It follows me, not any other person or dog, because I'm the one who my dog is attached to. You forget that dogs have been selectively bred over thousands of years to be companions for humans, and to do specific jobs - they no longer retain the same instincts they had in the wild, so to compare them to wild dogs is meaningless.

[harmfulsweetz]

10 Things That Piss Me Off About Dogs And Their Owners

 

First of all, I don't hate dogs. I love my brother's dog, and I'll make friends with any canine in my immediate vicinity. They're mostly cute and loving and blah blah blah. But.

 

1. A dog's unconditional love is not a beautiful thing. They have no choice. What are they going to do, pack their bags one day and 'screw you, I'm getting my own place?' They love you, or whoever the hell buys them, because you give them food and shelter and they are pack animals forced to hang around with a human. They 'love' a junkie who beats them, or a drunk old racist crank. They are the sluts of the animal world.

 

2. Dog owners generally couldn't give a monkeys if their little 'babies' make other people sick with allergies, or have to step in their disgusting poop. Sure the law says scoop it up or you'll get a fine, but before that how many dog owners took any responsibility for filling the streets and parks with potentially child-blinding sh*t? Maybe three?

 

3. Dogs aren't babies.

 

4. Most kids are scared of dogs, especially strange ones. Most of us can probably remember being chased by some barking animal bigger than us while the owner laughed and said 'Don't worry he won't bite you.' How would they like it if I came round to their house and wielding an axe shouting at their kids 'I'm going to chop you up hahaha!', then said 'Don't worry, I won't really.'

 

5. And sometimes they do bite.

 

6. 'My dogs got me through my divorce, they were always there for me, etc.' I could say the same about cigarettes, but that doesn't make them sacred or noble, just dumb animals that would eat you if you had a heart attack and there was no other food in the house.

 

7. I'm a vegetarian. If you love animals so much, I hope you have a good reason why some are like children and some are like a sandwich. Oh, because they are yours. So not like children, because you wouldn't eat someone else's child. I hope.

 

8. Like spinsters and their cats, don't you notice how in general it's the people who aren't good with people that anthropomorphousize their pets to a ridiculous degree? Fluffy does not want to wear a little Prada coat, and he doesn't have a favourite TV show. He just wants to sniff stuff and eat.

 

9. And f*ck, which you dog 'lovers' generally make sure he can never do.

 

10.And raise a family, which you dog owner's make sure they can never do. Humans take away all their babies and sell them, to other people who will keep them in an infantilized, unnatural state, just to feed their egos and their need to feel needed. If it's love dogs get, it's an abusive type.

 

 

There, now half the forum hates me. But your dog would 'love' me just as much as you, because it's a cute but dumb animal.

 

Now don't get me started on cats...

 

 

I don't happen to agree with a single thing you have said. It isn't just about the hand that feeds it, its about the time, the love and the affection, the walks etc that their owner bestows on them. When I take my dogs out, afterwards, they lie on my lap, and snuggle up to me. They choose to do so, I know my boyfriends dog isn't at all like that. His dog runs away any chance it gets, mine don't. When I walk my two dogs, they follow me. Granted, one runs for a while but he always comes back. There's nothing better than waking up, coming downstairs and seeing your pooches waiting for you. I adore seeing them when I come in at the door, if I call their name, they come.

 

The kid thing doesn't really apply to most dogs, most dogs don't chase children. I hate parents giving me funny looks because they haven't bothered to socialize their children properly, when my dogs are just in the vicinity of their kids. Sorry, but my dogs aren't even remotely interested in children, one is absolutely loyal and stays by my side no matter what, the other is far too amused with chasing leaves to care about anything else. And about the dog poop-some people don't pick it up, but the majority do. I do, my dad does, my boyfriend does, his dad does, everyone I know does. (I walk a few dogs). And when I walk on the fields, I see very little dog mess, there's the odd one, but there's always someone. Same with children's mess-how often do you walk into a restaurant or somewhere, and they've allowed their kids to make as much mess as possible, and don't even bother to clean it up?

 

There is nothing more miserable than someone who rants about dog lovers and dogs, most dogs aren't aggressive, but then sometimes its the kids fault if they get bit. Hello, I've seen children pick my dog up, pull his ears, tugging quite hard, but it would be my dog's fault if he bit them? No, it wouldn't. Not technically, he would be reacting to an annoyance, something which was causing him pain. But no one wants to say its the childrens fault, not everytime some dogs are aggressively brought up, but many times children aggravate an attack. A dog can't be held accountable for such an attack. A parent can. It's up to the parents/minder to oversee such an interaction.

 

Many kids who have toyed with my dogs are lucky they aren't even remotely aggressive, they love people. Well, one does, one doesn't but he's dead shy and cowardly, so he wouldn't do anything.

 

Anyways, my point is dogs are so amazing to have, they love you no matter what, and literally love being around you. My dad (who is their master I think) leaves, and they cry, he left for a weekend, they spent the weekend pining. They love very strongly, they show it so openly, they'll greet you in the morning, in the afternoon, in the night, cuddle you when you need it most, play when they want to, and are just so fantastically loyal creatures who adore you through thick and through thin. If you ever have cause to shout at them, they still love you just the same. Plus, they are entertaining, they can make you laugh when you are crying. A person rarely loves as well as a dog. It's unconditional, it doesn't bear grudges, and it will always be there. They are utterly dependant on me, and my family, but I think I'm dependent on them being there.