http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:55:17 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/12/221058.php#comment-84857 we have two dogs that we think of as our children, so i am sure you would hate me too. we find it is an unconditinal love that is tough to find. i understand where you are coming from though. i see people with their five year olds, and the kids are running screaming and are far more amusing to the parents than those surrounding them. jack 84857@blogcritics.org Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:55:17 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/12/221058.php#comment-84834 I find this problem all over. When I had to go a Cali office the people brought their dogs to work and one was a very protective Lab. Eventually he attacked someone. I just feel that people have been socialized to regard dogs as being equal to a 5 yrear old child rather than a domesticated animal. I know a lot of people that have dogs and compare them to my sons, which I hate! 84834@blogcritics.org Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:05:16 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/09/12/221058.php#comment-84828 Interesting post MD. I live in a warehouse loft downtown and it appears I am the only resident without a large pet dog of some kind. Many of my neighbors are women, and suspect the reason they have such large canines is because they feel safe - it being an urban downtown area with masked burglars around every corner and all. But a few things piss me off about my warehouse of dogs. They pee on the elevator, they shit on the sidewalk and they howl at night when an ambulance drives by. After repeated complaints to the warehouse owner, the dog owners have finally started to clean up after their overly-excited pets. I still step lightly, needless-to-say. My sister is an obsessive dog owner and once mourned for several weeks after the death of her beloved Doberman. It is a connection I cannot relate to, though I did have four dogs growing up, and will occasionally miss them (they have all gone to Dog Heaven, one would assume).......Anyway, there is nothing quite as eccentric as a dog owner, and when it comes to urban areas, I cannot think of a worse area to try and keep a large dog..... 84828@blogcritics.org Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:17:09 EDT