Obnoxious Dogs

Don't get me wrong, I do like dogs. Obviously because my life is sometimes taken over by them. I've found, especially since I have increased my dog experience over the years, I have a low tolerance for obnoxious dogs. Particularly barky, little, and ill-behaved dogs irk me. I've never hit or kicked a dog, I'm not about to. Although if there was a way that kicking a dog would make it disappear into the horizon (without killing it) like in cartoons was possible...whoo-hoo!

I guess in general, it is not necessarily the size of the dog that is the problem, it just seems that smaller dogs come across as more annoying that larger dogs. Is it because they are so small, owners feel they are beyond training and learning manners? Or because they are so little, they are exempt from learning manners and just big dogs are required of this? Either way, I think this is crap!

First, just because they are small, doesn't mean they are any less inconspicuous. They bark and pee just like any dog. It might be less in volume at one time compared to a larger dog, but it still smells. Believe me, going into a house where a chihuahua marks the furniture is still going to smell like piss as bad as if a dalmatian marks the area.

Just because they are little, doesn't mean the dog is incapable of training. Yes, a rat terrier may not be able to drag you the morning paper. But I have seen plenty of small dogs trained and used for work. Agility, bomb and drug detection, signal dogs for the deaf, and even cancer detention. On a side note, the reason a little dog would not work out to be a guide dog or an assistance dog for someone in a wheel-chair is because of size. A Jack Russell cannot pull a full-sized adult in a wheel chair or pull them out of the way like a guide dog if a car is about to hit them.



Although it has been proven that some dog breeds are more intelligent than others, there really is not reason why a dog, big or especially little, cannot learn some manners. I guess this once again goes back to the owners. I'm not about to go on a crusade of correcting one dog owner at a time, that would be fruitless. Yes, some tolerance is required on my part. However, there are some bonuses to being a responsible owner; such as apartment complexes favoring your side when it comes to a tenant who has no regard to others privacy and sleep at night, thinking everyone should ignore their barking dog like they do. Oh, so wrong!