Pittbulls...not for the weak stomach..

[pixiegirl]

I think a horse has the right to kick a dog in the head if the dog enters the horses pasture.

Well no crap but it's the people that have to take responsibility for the pets they own. Pets can not take care of themselves and don't have the capacity to keep themselves out of trouble/harms way.

 

[SouthernMdRocks]

I didn't say that it would purposely try to provoke a dog. Inadvertantly since we are talking about two seperate species it's very plausable that the dog would become provoked and attack. So unless you're an animal psychologist I have a very valid theory. I never gave said that it WAS the case just that it could have been.

Well I can tell you 100% that it wasn't the case and if you ever met or spent time with this little mare you would have seen how kind she was. I could go on and on about how special she is but I don't feel the need to have to prove it.

 

[Spudtrooper]

Well I can tell you 100% that it wasn't the case and if you ever met or spent time with this little mare you would have seen how kind she was. I could go on and on about how special she is but I don't feel the need to have to prove it.

I don't think she is trying to say your mare deserved her fate.

 

[Cowgirl]

So, you didn't answer my question. It's ok for a horse to misinterpret intention but not a dog? You're skating around the question.

Well, the horse won't keep kicking and kicking at a dog unless the dog won't quit bothering it (unless the horse is a tempermental stud or something). A horse isn't just doing to keep kicking the shiat out of a dog that is laying there knocked out. Dogs, on the other hand, will keep attacking something.

 

[pixiegirl]

Well I can tell you 100% that it wasn't the case and if you ever met or spent time with this little mare you would have seen how kind she was. I could go on and on about how special she is but I don't feel the need to have to prove it.

I'm sure she was and you're correct you don't have to prove anything to me or anyone else. I'm sorry for your loss; I just don't agree with blaming the breed as a whole for the actions of an issresponsible owner but I do understand why you're biased.

 

[kwillia]

Makes me wanna go bump the bare minerals thread...

 

[mAlice]

Makes me wanna go bump the bare minerals thread...

Go for it.

 

[pixiegirl]

Well, the horse won't keep kicking and kicking at a dog unless the dog won't quit bothering it (unless the horse is a tempermental stud or something). A horse isn't just doing to keep kicking the shiat out of a dog that is laying there knocked out. Dogs, on the other hand, will keep attacking something.

You don't have an argument if you use an "unless". Most pitbull attacks are intact males. So I can say for the most part "A pitbull will not attack unless it's a tempremental intact male." No... Trash that argument.

Different species that do different things. You're validating my point. They're totally different yet they're suppose to understand one another? No.

 

[kwillia]

Go for it.

She's almost as cute as Mig when she gets in these feisty moods...

 

[mAlice]

She's almost as cute as Mig when she gets in these feisty moods...

Oh, now you've done it. You went and called her "cute".

 

[pixiegirl]

Oh, now you've done it. You went and called her "cute".

I don't take issue with that.

 

[mAlice]

I don't take issue with that.

 

[SouthernMdRocks]

So barking warrants a kick? I've seen dogs that bark when the wind changes direction. Just because a dog barks does not mean it's being aggressive. Matter of fact when I had more than one dog in the house they always barked at each other when playing. Now with one dog, she barks at the cat when she wants to get his attention and wants him to play.

And no other animal minding their business in a pasture deserves to get mauled and torn apart by any animal. I have several dogs and they are taught to leave the horses alone. If they didn't then they might get kicked, so far hasn't happened. I can tell you that I don't have to tell the horses to leave the dogs alone, they don't go looking for trouble

 

[SouthernMdRocks]

So barking warrants a kick? I've seen dogs that bark when the wind changes direction. Just because a dog barks does not mean it's being aggressive. Matter of fact when I had more than one dog in the house they always barked at each other when playing. Now with one dog, she barks at the cat when she wants to get his attention and wants him to play.

My dogs bark all the time and haven't been kicked.

 

[SouthernMdRocks]

So by your statement here, it's very possible that a horse can misinterpret a dog's intentions and kick it and that's ok but if a dog does the same and attacks that's not?

You're barking up the wrong tree here. This is silly. All I know is what has happened shouldn't have or wouldn't have if the owner wasn't such a dumb@#$. Regardless of the type of dog..

 

[Cowgirl]

You don't have an argument if you use an "unless". Most pitbull attacks are intact males. So I can say for the most part "A pitbull will not attack unless it's a tempremental intact male." No... Trash that argument.

Different species that do different things. You're validating my point. They're totally different yet they're suppose to understand one another? No.

This is USLESS I tell you...useless. It is the exception and not the rule that a horse would go after a dog. I actually have never seen a horse attack a dog. I have, however, seen my donkey chase and bite sheep, goats, and calves. I did not keep the donkey.


Maybe the calves provoked the donkey....causing the donkey to bite its neck and fling it to the ground. :shrug:

 

[SouthernMdRocks]

Pittbulls...not for the... 12-15-2006 01:34 PM Actually, i know of 2 horses that will go out of their way to kick/bite/stomp a dog. just because you havent seen it, doesnt mean it hasnt happend (the whole tree falling in the woods, no ones around, does it make a noise thing)


I can only speak of what I have seen and how my horses act. I do believe I said I have never seen.

 

[mAlice]

Pittbulls...not for the... 12-15-2006 01:34 PM Actually, i know of 2 horses that will go out of their way to kick/bite/stomp a dog. just because you havent seen it, doesnt mean it hasnt happend (the whole tree falling in the woods, no ones around, does it make a noise thing)

You may have seen two horses, but the rest of us have seen dogs go after someone/something almost on a daily basis. Please find an article in the newspaper for me about an attack horse.

 

[kwillia]

I'm confused as to why some of us are quick to defend a dog that bites a person that univitedly enters a fenced yard, yet are ready to blame a horse should a dog uninvitedly venture into a fence pasture...

 

[pixiegirl]

My dogs bark all the time and haven't been kicked.

I was going off what cowgirl said. Read please.