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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very often they have no idea how. Or they think it’s mean to make the dog obey them, even though a hierarchical world is what a dog instinctively desires. Or they’re lazy. Lots of reasons. PP is correct that few dogs are untrainable. I knew a family that had an energetic and intelligent sled-type dog. The dog ran the show. They went to a professional trainer. The dog was fine with him, because it was the owners who needed to be trained first. They finally gave up and gave the dog to a person they worked with. I saw it a few months earlier and it was perfectly obedient. Because what mattered was the owner’s behavior. [/quote]
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Everyone has a reason why their dog's behavior is okay and we should all be fine with it.  But mostly it's that they don't actually have the time or energy, they think it's "mean," or they are lazy or overly indulgent.  And entitled, because we're all supposed to LOVE their furbabies and if we don't we're the heartless monsters.

We don't currently have a dog because I think having a pet is a responsibility, and if you can't properly train your pet and provide them the exercise and attention they need, you shouldn't have one.  But a lot of people don't feel that way.  They get a dog because they or their kids want one, period.[/quote]

+1 and it's really hard to get them the exercise they need when there are so few spaces for them to run. You can say people shouldn't get a dog if they can't manage the time, but so many dog owners don't tell the truth about how much work and $ it is.   The dog owners who are honest about how hard it can be are few and far between. My friends who pushed me to have a dog weren't honest about any of the work/$$. Only one dog owner was honest about how hard it was. The happiest dog owners I know aren't dual income and don't travel much. [/quote]

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