Thread: Councils should admister an IQ test before people can own a dog!

Ruff I appreciate your passion for the subject, as I am sure you have noticed I am too passionate about my dog and dog training.

I would however like to end this with saying that you do not know me or my dog and do not know the circumstances of the bites I have recieved from him - during reward play, when he was highly aroused and I was not thinking about lowering his stimulation and taking control of the situation. As for telling visitors to leave my dog alone - I do not have a 'working dog' as such, like the ones you own and train. I have an average joe dog. I have friends. My flatmates have friends. These are real people that love your average joe dog. They want to pat dogs, cuddle them, make them do tricks. And so do I. I love a working dog who does a job. But you've got to be shitting me if you'd profess to never patting or showing affection to your dog - it's what (most) humans like to do. And with a bit of instruction and pointers, I'd like my visitors to enjoy my dog with pats and cuddles and tricks and have my dog enjoy the affection of the visitors once he is comfortable.

The point of the posters is to help people to understand dogs a bit better and their body language. Good luck to you mate if you'd like to lock up every un-educated average Joe and never let him pat a dog again without attending one of your lectures. Me on the other hand.....I'd like to explain to people how they can interact with Fido a bit more appropriately. Even if that means educating one visitor to my home at a time.

You don't need to worry about the posters though, you'll never be round to my house!