Thread: Fecking dogs - again!!!

I am not a dog lover, in the Uk all dogs mean to me is crap on the side walk, danger of being bit or loose hairs all over the place. In Bali, Rabies, disease, crap, danger to road users and stinky. I do understand dog lovers [my mother had 3 pugs] and can see how they can become part of the family. What is often overlooked by dog lovers is other people may well not hold the same feelings toward their amimals as they do. In fact quite the opposite. I have had a dog owner treating my house [a no pet zone] as a playground for their dogs. Leaving me with hairs, vomit and muddy footprints to clean up. Oblivious to the smell and my discomfort, commenting on how wonderful they are and commenting that the poor dog had eaten too much grass, about the vomiting. Now if they were children, yes, It would be fine. But they are not. They are animals.
I understand where Markit is coming from. I agree with him. Whilst I am believer of 'speaking your mind', there are more subtle ways to express the truth. I suspect Markit is not surpised by the reaction he got to his post. After all it was written [like most of his posts] to get a reaction. But for the record;
I don't want fido anywhere near me no matter how much you love it!

Originally Posted by matsaleh

Markit, you've been exonerated!

I really wonder why,Matsaleh?

First of all,i take rabies very seriously.I probably are the only member on this forum who can say a familymember died of rabies,albeit a long time ago.
I did have myself vaccinated consequently.
Markits claim that if expat owners would only chain up their dogs, there would not be a problem is too ridiculous for words.Never met any stray dogs in the streets?
Rabies vaccination is NOTpainful,and if taken here not too expensive.
Anyway anybody worrying so much about rabies and not taking vaccination because of the cost seems to have a more serious problem.
For the majority of you who were not present at markits visit here a short description from my point of view.:
He came to get scans of the already earlier discussed Black and White pictures of bali in the 30ties.When arriving he did not say anything about being uncomfortable with my dogs.Both of my dogs are bali dogs,adopted from the asylum in Lodtunduh.One of them,untipical for balidogs,likes everybody and wants to lick them.From the day she arrived here,nothing to do with the nationality of the owner.The other dog behaves like most balidogs and keeps her distance from strangers.
When mr.M was seated and scanning pictures,the sweet dog came up once and licked his hand,after wich he mumbled something like,"do not like bali dogs",wich i recieved as a statement.If he was really afraid of being infected at that moment(wich can only happen if you have open wounds on your hands)what would have been more easy than ask if my dogs are vaccinated?I could have provided the immunisationcards in two seconds to put him at ease.Mr M.very courageously stayed two more hours to finish the scanning of the pictures(repeatedly complaining about the speed of my scanner and computer)and then left in a hurry.
After recieving him and letting him have the scans i was ,let us put it mildly,unpleasantly surprised to read his verbal fart about all these expat doglovers that had done him wrong.
In my opinion the whole rabies angle is just to justify his verbally uncourteous explosion.
"I prefer the balinese way,as usual "he ended one of his posts.So do I,and therefore i am a hermit and limit my visitors to balinese(of whom no one ever had a problem with my dogs)and dog-toting expats.Thanks for the good lesson!
I can only agree with the sharp analysis that Johnny Cool has given above.