Please go to http://www.petfinder.org/ and read the article "big heart". There are lots of great kids at my dog park including mine. It just disturbs me all the kid haters on here...everyone on here was once a child.
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Please go to http://www.petfinder.org/ and read the article "big heart". There are lots of great kids at my dog park including mine. It just disturbs me all the kid haters on here...everyone on here was once a child.
When did I say that I "hated" all kids? If you read the last paragraph of my post, you would see that I don't. I have had no desire to have any children, ever, and I expect that I never will. In my most recent post on this thread, I said that there are kids that visit the Dog Park, that I have no problem with.Quote:
Originally posted by caseysmom
Please go to http://www.petfinder.org/ and read the article "big heart". There are lots of great kids at my dog park including mine. It just disturbs me all the kid haters on here...everyone on here was once a child.
I'm still a kid myself; I'm only 14. But, my parents taught me Dog Park manners. The parents of this one need to do the same.. or most likely the kid will get biten by a dog one of these days if he continues doing this.
I can't put up with kids or any person bothering and tormenting my dog. Sorry.
I don't have much of a problem with the nice, polite ones, but ones like that just make my blood boil.
Sorry I just found this disturbing. Its not just this thread I have read lots of them here hopefully everyone values human children over animals.
Personally, I value my furkids just as much as I value my siblings, cousins, family. You need to understand that we are all crazy about animals here, and maybe a kid doesn't belong in a dog park. It's a dog park, not a kid park. This kid wasn't "up to date" on the manners you need to attend a dog park. Julie never said she hated kids, but I can understand where she's coming from. I would DESPISE a kid screaming in my dog's face. That would make me incredibly mad, and yeah, I would tell the kids parent. Dogs don't need to be put through the stress of having an obnoxious kid screaming in their face in a place where they are supposed to be enjoying themselves.
Kids don't belong in a dog park unless they have the manners to ask if they can come near someones dog. Plain and simple, this child shouldn't have been running around like a maniac and bothering dogs.
I know I said that I was taking a break from Pet Talk but I just needed to say something.
I have two kids of my own ages 4 years old and 8 months old. I value my fur kids and feather kid just as much as my two skinkids. They are not allowed to start yelling in the dogs face.
We do not have any dog parks around here if we did I would not go for these reasons. I DO Not want some strange kid come up to my dogs pulling on them and yelling at them. I would yelling right back at the kid. I do not have the patience for that type of thing. So I am glad we don't have any dog parks.
I love my animals very much but there is no way they are equal to my children sorry but to me that is absurd....maybe I don't belong here.
Yes there are, but there are also a lot of bad kids there. The problem is that a lot of the time the kids misbehave because the parents don't do anything about it. So if the child is bothering your dog talking to their parent usually doesn't fix the problem.Quote:
There are lots of great kids at my dog park including mine.
I'm also very bothered by people who bring in toddlers and let them walk around. I would always feel scared to let Missy run and enjoy herself for fear that she could knock the baby down and they I would get slapped with a lawsuit. The dog park just isn't a good place for loose toddlers or misbehaved children.
I would never bring a dog that to go play at a schoolground during their recess hour. Kids have their own places to play and their own part of the park. It's just common sense that the dog park is where the dogs get to run around, not the children.
Did I say they were equal "NO" I said "I value my furkids and featherkid just as much as my two skinkids"Quote:
Originally posted by caseysmom
I love my animals very much but there is no way they are equal to my children sorry but to me that is absurd....maybe I don't belong here.
I do not think them as "equals" but I do love them just about the same as my two kids. My love for two daughters is alot different then for my furkids and featherkid. It is just really hard to explain. All I know is I love all of them!
I am now leaving this convo. I have nothing else to say.
I have no patience for kids, or anybody for that matter coming up and tormenting my dog. Maybe as a parent you have a different opinion, but my dogs are my life, and are like my children. I'm more upset at the parents for just sitting back and watching him continue to do it, instead of disciplining him.Quote:
Originally posted by caseysmom
I love my animals very much but there is no way they are equal to my children sorry but to me that is absurd....maybe I don't belong here.
Maybe if you were in my position yesterday, you would understand where I'm coming from..
I have no problem with you not wanting misbehaved children at the dog park...although I have not encountered that at my dog park it sounds like it could be annoying if not dangerous. Sorry its hard for me to relate I have an 11 year old who has already taken veterinary classes at the university here in my town, she will clean up caseys diarreah when I am at work and call me and tell me how her eyes are and how her nose feels. She also volunteers at the spca.
caseysmom
Then you have a special daughter whom you have raised correctly. Major Kudo's for you. Unfortunately just because you have a great child doesn't discount all the experiences the rest of us have with ill-mannered, ill-behaved brats that should be disciplined by an actual parent not someone who is trying to be the kid's friend instead.
There are a number of us on here that don't particularly care for children as a whole and you know what.......that is ok. WE are not horrible people for that. You have your opinion on children and I have mine. I prefer not to be around children. Doesn't mean I am hateful towards them. I have even given horseback riding lessons and the children tend to really like me. *shrug* It is because I don't treat them like helpless children but like small adults who have to be responsible for their own actions. But I still don't like being around them and live my life in a way as to avoid children.
As far as you belonging here. If you love animals and are tolerant of other's opinions then you belong.
Denyce
Well its a good thing everybody doesn't want children...we do have population problems:p Don't get me wrong my animals are definetely like one of my children. Actually my kids say I love casey more than them but casey needs less discipliine:D
I knew I would hear it eventually. I was just waiting for the "kid hating" comment to come along. Perhaps we should specify that we don't hate kids, we detest brats that aren't properly raised. I wouldn't have tolerated near some of the stuff that some of the other people made their dogs endure. Just because they're animals doesn't mean they should have to be punished and hurt because some brat and their so called "parent" can't or won't teach them how to properly behave in society. Too bad the village really can't raise a child now because those kids need to be taught compassion and need proper discipline when needed. Unless they're not walking or talking, they can be taught the differences between right and wrong and that should start as soon as possible. So stop with the "we hate all kids" talk. There are bad apples in every age group, etc.
I think I have a right to my opinion.
EVERYONE has a right to their opinion.
I personaly hold animals higher then most people and equal to a few. that is MY opinion, certainly not evreybodys that I know very well.