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She should have gotten more than one year of probation!
:mad:
Paying the price for a dirty dog
Paying the price for a dirty dog
valerie wrote: http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20060602/D8HVOE081.html
She should have gotten more than one year of probation!
:mad:
I personally think that there should be a licence required to own a dog. Obtaining the licence should require being able to display an ability to nurture, train, and provide for the dog. The licence should be required in two parts. One part to show knowledge of the breed, and the second part for a specific dog only given out if the prospective owner has satisfactorily acquired the first part for the appropriate breed. The certificates should not be cheap.
Exceptions can be made for people who are dependent on dogs such as blind people and those that suffer from epileptic attacks. Even so, the second part licence should still be mandatory as it provides a means to trace the owner in the same way as a registration document provides the details of the owner for a vehicle.
She should have gotten more than one year of probation!
:mad:
I personally think that there should be a licence required to own a dog. Obtaining the licence should require being able to display an ability to nurture, train, and provide for the dog. The licence should be required in two parts. One part to show knowledge of the breed, and the second part for a specific dog only given out if the prospective owner has satisfactorily acquired the first part for the appropriate breed. The certificates should not be cheap.
Exceptions can be made for people who are dependent on dogs such as blind people and those that suffer from epileptic attacks. Even so, the second part licence should still be mandatory as it provides a means to trace the owner in the same way as a registration document provides the details of the owner for a vehicle.
Paying the price for a dirty dog
ArnoldLayne wrote: I would agree. Offering a home to a rescued dog at the RSPCA requires a home visit, which I am perfectly willing to have.
I have been called controversial in the past for advocating the same parameters to people wanting babies but thats another thread
On your latter point, I have had similar thoughts. While it is assumed that raising children is a natural ability, there are so many examples, past and present, where children have more or less raised themselves with negative results.
We are different to animals insofar as we, as a collective breed, have endeavoured to create a civilized society. To bring children into a civilized society requires more than just conception and birthing.
But, just as there are those who are naturally gifted to bring up children, there are those who haven't a clue.
As an aside, many years ago, I remember reading a science fiction story where all children were brought up in institutions by peiple who had a natural ability with children. I think the perspective was meant to shock (considering the rest of the story), but I thought that perhaps there was some proper sense there.
A few years ago, I remember watching a documentary about a primitive tribe. In this tribe, every woman that had given birth to a child was a 'mother' to every child of the tribe. Thus, all the children of the tribe had a 'mother' they could turn to. Likewise, all the 'mothers' disciplined the children ratrher than turning a blind eye because the child was not hers. Retrospectively, in our society today, no one dares raise an eyebrow to a child for fear of retribution either from the authorities or from gangs.
I have been called controversial in the past for advocating the same parameters to people wanting babies but thats another thread
On your latter point, I have had similar thoughts. While it is assumed that raising children is a natural ability, there are so many examples, past and present, where children have more or less raised themselves with negative results.
We are different to animals insofar as we, as a collective breed, have endeavoured to create a civilized society. To bring children into a civilized society requires more than just conception and birthing.
But, just as there are those who are naturally gifted to bring up children, there are those who haven't a clue.
As an aside, many years ago, I remember reading a science fiction story where all children were brought up in institutions by peiple who had a natural ability with children. I think the perspective was meant to shock (considering the rest of the story), but I thought that perhaps there was some proper sense there.
A few years ago, I remember watching a documentary about a primitive tribe. In this tribe, every woman that had given birth to a child was a 'mother' to every child of the tribe. Thus, all the children of the tribe had a 'mother' they could turn to. Likewise, all the 'mothers' disciplined the children ratrher than turning a blind eye because the child was not hers. Retrospectively, in our society today, no one dares raise an eyebrow to a child for fear of retribution either from the authorities or from gangs.