OPINION: Dogs are like people - they have good days and bad

But to get back to your article for one thing, you’re afraid of all dogs and they can sense it, and so can I from this article. Have you ever had a pet dog or a cat? I doubt it very much!

Well I have had a dog of some kind for as long as I can remember and that would be at least 75 years of my 80 years. I'm like Will Rogers who once said "I never met a man I didn't like." Well I never met a dog I didn't like.

Dogs are like people they have good days and bad days too.

Let me tell you of some experiences I have had with some of the dogs I have seen and been close enough to pet.

Let me mention some real, as you call them, beasts. There was the Doberman pincher that my wife's cousin owned that was an ex-Army K-9 dog that they warned me about because he didn't like strangers. Guess what? That dog wanted to sit on my lap. He knew I wasn't afraid of him and my wife's cousin was amazed by his friendliness toward me.

Than there was the half German shepherd, half wolf at a garage sale near Pinckney that came up to me and stuck his nose in my pocket because I just happened to have some dog treats in it and he wanted to shake hands for one, The people said he never did that before with a stranger.

Then the real beast was the full-blooded wolf at a garage sale behind Frazer's Pub that the man who owned him and let us see him with the only caution was to approach him slowly which we did and were able to pet him.
So you see when you see a dog any kind a dog they can sense if your afraid of them or not So be cool, talk to the animal try holding your hand out to let it smell you and if that don't work don't push it.

You had said in your article "By the way, if your menacing beast, with its bad breath and muscular jaws, comes near me and my child, I will end your pet."
Than you know what? You'll be up for animal cruelty.

Let me ask you this question, Have you ever held your child when he or she died? I have, and I have held pet dogs that have died too and you grieve for a pet just like for a child or family member - because they are family too.

Dogs are like people there are good and bad in both species.

Ralph Schlegelmilch
Dexter