Comments on: Dillow, Dogs and Death

By: DogBreed

DogBreed — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 21:17:56 +0000

While doing a research for a project about dogs I found your blog. Thanks for the info

By: Paul Sagar

Paul Sagar — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:50:23 +0000

Hmm, I reject the false prophets who spread the propaganda of a dogs OR cats dichotomy. I’m well disposed toward cats, but I’ve always wanted a Labrador.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:34:51 +0000

You’re absolutely right – owning an aggressive-looking dog (even if he is “perfectly harmless really”) is a negative externality which should be priced, and dog licences are far superior to insurance, as the cash raised can, as you say, be recycled to the poor.
There are, though, practical problems – how to enforce it, given that bullying coppers will leave the vicious owners alone and pick upon ordinary dog-owners? And how to distinguish between aggressive dogs and the harmlessish pets of little old ladies.
I share your prejudice – just kill ‘em – but then I think the world should be run for the benefit of cats.

By: blanco

blanco — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:16:57 +0000

We banned guns, and knives. Dogs are weapons. Why can’t we ban them too? The same arguments used against banning smoking and guns are now being rolled out against any proposals to ban dogs. “It’s not the dogs that kill people, it’s the way they’re brought up!/their working class owners!/council estate people!” etc etc. I’ve never seen a middle class dog owner squatting down to scoop up their bitch’s poop.

By: blanco

blanco — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:13:39 +0000

Precisely. Why should some twat’s right to waste the little money they have on a snarling dog because it’s scarier than a knife or gun, override the right of everyone else not to have to see these bitches on the pavement, shitting on our streets, and mauling our kids to death? Openly waving their knives and 9mms around would get them arrested, so they have a rottweiler instead. Fuck them. And fuck the middle class liberals who recoil at the thought of the state banning bad things. That’s the whole point of the state.