Yes I am inclined to agree. I met someone down the local park the other day who was quite seriously `rough-housing' with his dog. Something about it just looked funny, so I casually approached and asked what he was doing. He told me `oh, it's something called Schutzhund'. I carefully ventured that I knew what Schutzhund was and what he was doing didn't really look like it to me, and he spilled some kind of demented garbage to me for about ten minutes before I was able to take my leave.

It bothers me more than you can know how much people mess up their dogs with rubbish like what this guy was doing. His poor dog looked stressed and confused and yet the guy thought he was `training' him to be a - get this - a `good guard dog'.

Yeah right. The only thing he's training him to do is attack some random stranger and then get put to sleep for no greater crime than being a poor, confused pup. People worry about the state of the world, and I do too, but it's that kind of thing that keeps me awake at night.

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins