Re: Dog viciousness (was Re: Texas : Master's degree in creationism)

2007-12-29 Thread Nick Arnett
On Dec 28, 2007 3:08 PM, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick, if you can remember where you read that, there's someone at my work who might be very grateful. It was in the New Yorker -- a Malcolm Gladwell article about profiling:

Re: Dog viciousness (was Re: Texas : Master's degree in creationism)

2007-12-29 Thread Charlie Bell
On 30/12/2007, at 3:33 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: On Dec 28, 2007 3:08 PM, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick, if you can remember where you read that, there's someone at my work who might be very grateful. It was in the New Yorker -- a Malcolm Gladwell article about profiling:

Dog viciousness (was Re: Texas : Master's degree in creationism)

2007-12-28 Thread Nick Arnett
On Dec 28, 2007 3:31 AM, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That they've been bred for viciousness says more about the people doing the breeding than the dogs themselves. As for orcas, what's wrong with orcas? They're carnivores, they're top predators, they're smart. But they're no better

Re: Dog viciousness (was Re: Texas : Master's degree in creationism)

2007-12-28 Thread Charlie Bell
On 29/12/2007, at 3:02 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: I relaxed a great deal about pits after reading an article citing statistics that made it clear that *owners* are far more responsible for their dogs' behavior than I had imagined before becoming a dog owner Nick, if you can remember where

Dog viciousness (was Re: Texas : Master's degree in creationism)

2007-12-28 Thread Robert J. Chassell
Nick Arnett said, I have a hard time believing that pits are inherently vicious. They aren't when you are a friend of the little old lady that owns one. (I knew the `little old lady' when she was young, but then, I was young at the same time ...) ... *owners* are far more responsible

Re: Dog viciousness (was Re: Texas : Master's degree in creationism)

2007-12-28 Thread Kanandarqu
Nick wrote I relaxed a great deal about pits after reading an article citing statistics that made it clear that *owners* are far more responsible for their dogs' behavior than I had imagined before becoming a dog owner Nick, if you can remember where you read that, there's someone