Hello; Here is the most screwed up dog story yet. No violence, no mauling and no deaths, just a modern type "it has to be someone elses fault". You likely know the sort of person. Sort of the opposite and logical outcome of everybody gets a trophy.
Now i first confess to not completely understanding the logic of having a dog and not taking it for a walk yourself. I will also confess to not understanding what seems to me a sort of fad of having a dog when your lifestyle makes such very hard.
(side note- I live near an expanding college campus. One which has grown from a sleepy small college to a local behemoth. Seems nearly all the students have dogs. Some more than one. I can only imagine what dorm life is like and in fact do not want to know first-hand.)
So, back to the link. I have not owned a dog since the early 1980's. (was not a dog parent by the way. I owned the dog. Another odd life twist = pet parent) Things were simple enough back then. Now dogs get medical care on a level in terms of cost with human health care. Costs a lot. So where is the next level of false logic coming from? First level is having a dog which you cannot walk yourself. Second level is expecting a low a low wage dog walker to help foot the bill for something a dog (a dumb dog by owners very words) eats.
Made me think of why i finally stopped driving a school bus. I drove for 13 years. I understood i was liable for the safety of my passengers. From 1st graders to 8th graders most years. The first few years I could maintain discipline on the bus. Yes i did use corporal punishment. I used a paddle. Worked very well. As time went by the "experts" took away the paddle, then writing lines, then stopped all forms of punishment. In addition I could not personally kick a student off the bus nor could i get the school principal to use his authority to do so. There is a final straw episode after which I declared I needed to be able to kick unruly kids off my bus for safety reasons or I would quit driving. The bosses let me quit. But i am off topic a bit.
Had a friend in the medical field. He earned well. Had a low paid housekeeper come clean his house after his wife left. One weekend he gets around to cleaning up a portion of the property. After timing some branches and other work he decides to block the spot the housekeeper had been parking in for many months. he did not tell her of the change, just filled a black five-gallon bucket with gravel and sat it in front of the spot. The woman drove into the bucket causing big damage to her car. ( I saw the bucket after the fact and had to tell him it was hard to spot. ) He refused to help her with a car repair and was very self-satisfied he was not in the wrong. Would have been tiny potatoes financially for him but devastated the woman.
To those who hire someone to walk your dog, too bad if i offend. To those who walk their own dog good for you and please clean up if they deposit on a walking trail.
