[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Aggression towards owners
- From: Peggy <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: psharp212@xxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:25:44 -0400
I remember that story.......and I remember being so annoyed that they
used a white GSD for the movie...made me so sure they'd never read the
book........................!
I never could make up my mind whether I loved or hated the end of
the story........
Peggy
Paula Cooke wrote:
>Read White Dog, a true story by Romain Gary. It was written in 1970. It
>was later made into a lousy Kristy McNichol-Paul Winfield movie, but the
>book has tremendous insight into a dog's brain and how we can corrupt a
>sound, intelligent, loving GSD into a killer.
>The actual dog, Batka, was a black and tan GSD, but, for some reason, the
>producers of the movie chose to use a white GSD!! The book's title refers
>to any dog trained to kill black people in our pre-civil rights South.
>
>Thanks for all the nice welcomes-back.
>
>Paula, 56 days and counting
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>Msg: #3 in digest
>From: TLSGSD@xxxxxxx
>Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:27:51 EDT
>Subject: Re: Aggression towards owners
>
>In most cases I concur with you both - however, I did make an exception for
>a dog that I had several years ago. He had been given, by me, to a police
>canine trainer. In hindsight, that was a terrible mistake! The man was,
>in my
>opinion, a complete idiot. He told me, when we went to see the dog, that
>he
>had decided to make the dog, and I quote, "hate him". Well, it worked -
>the
>dog ended up hating not only him, but almost everyone! When I heard that
>the dog was going to be shot - yes, shot! - I was extremely upset. This
>was an
>animal that I had 2 years of obedience training in and who loved to work!
>Needless to say, in my own guilt for doing this to that poor animal, I took
>him back with the knowledge that if I couldn't manage him then it would be
>ME
>that put him down - humanely! He lived to be 13 here in the security of
>our
>kennel runs where he could hurt NO ONE - because he most definitely would
>have. He did bite my sister one time - but only in the heat of a dogfight
>because she accidentally left another male's kennel door unlatched and
>there was a
>conflict - not the dog's fault.
>
>Terri Stout
>_Cresthaven Kennels_ (http://cresthavenkennels.com/)
>
>
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