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I guess a dog may not be the answer in every case but I still have faith that having a dog in the house is always an advantage. I can promise you  this if a truck or a car gets anywhere close to my house day or night Kasey lets me know it long before they could ever be kicking my door in....................jmho   I will never figure out why that one person did not put him to death and made 11 other people change their minds and guess I never will. He may have avoided the gallows but when it comes time to meet his maker I would bet he will pay his dues.............again.....jmho

And then everyone wonders where Domestic Violence comes from as they get older?  Once it starts it seldom stops as they grow older................jmho

I don't have alarm system but my house only has half size sliding windows and two doors. The sliding windows all have wood blocks in the tracks preventing anyone from forcing one to slide. My doors have a door handle lock and twin long slide dead bolts on both doors. You may kick it in but your going to work your butt off doing it. Plus I am never more than 5 feet from a gun anywhere in my house including bathroom. Is my house really secure? Of course not. It is secure enough that I will have enough time to react and be somewhat prepared to confront an intruder YES!! but 100% secure NO!!!

That is why most people have a house dog. Best alert you can have is a dog with great hearing. Kasey was sleeping under my bed about 4 nights ago and all at once began growling and then went into full barking mode and came out from under the bed. My outside lights popped on and all it was in a neighborhood kid cutting through yards to get home after running out of gas. Kasey could hear him just walking through the yard long before he tripped the lights. I was able to have gun in hand and in living room ready for someone to try and kick my door in. When the lights came on I think it scared the kid so much he probably may have peed his pants and my opening up the door with a gun in my hand didn't help any his feelings any. He apologized for disturbing me. He lived 4 doors away and I know him well. My neighbor was also awakened by his house dogs to the kid walking through the yard and he was also up and gun in hand. I have some great security lights and when they come on you can play foot ball at night in the areas they light up............. :up:

  It would surely be a deterrent to his one or two buddies waiting to come in behind him when the Boom happens..........jmho

  Walmart parking lots were full back when Sam Walton was running them and they had primarily almost 95% American made Products also. People shopped at Walmart long before they went to China and long before they sold groceries and I honestly believe Walmarts parking lots would be full if they offered more American made products. I quit going to Walmart except in emergencies when I cannot find something any place else. They are my very last choice to shop at for about anything. In all honesty I think Americans are getting tired of buying low quality products if they could buy better grade American made products..............jmho

Up until about a year ago China would not make any products for humans or pets that did not say Made in China and have a Chinese bar code on it. American companies began noticing that their products began remaining on shelves and not selling. Because of the slump in ordering products from China China finally decided to begin allowing pet food companies to purchase just the products and let them do their own packaging. That is what Nestles began doing and on their packages of their products it says packaged in the USA and not made in the USA. I am sincerely hoping that enough pressure is put on all of the American companies that they just totally quite buying anything from China and begin making their own products here. They may cost a little more but I truly believe most Americans are willing to pay a few cents more for truly American Products.............jmho

This is a response to my post in Our Fur friends when I was talking about dog snacks made in China. Petco and and Petsmart are both pulling all their dog treats from their shelves that are made in China. I have been posting to different sites for a couple years about pet snacks from China were killing dogs here and on the CBS World News tonight they announced that a chemical China has been putting in dog treats have killed over 1000 dogs.   Back about 6 years ago a friend of mine gave Kasey a couple jerky treats while we were visiting them. He said he gave them to his dogs all the time. I picked up the bag of Waggin Trails and it said made in USA so I didn't think anything about it. One day he called me up and told me his Lab had died. It suffered Kidney failure and he had to put him down. Next time I was in Sams, where he bought his dog treats I picked up a bag of Waggin Trail Jerky treats and it said made in China on the bag. I called my friend and ask hm to see where the treats he had were made and he went ballistic when he read it was now being made in China.     I called the 800 number on their bag and requested to know why they left America and went to China to have their products made and she said, Our Company was having difficulty finding enough chicken  in America to make their treats. I asked her if their company tried calling Tyson and she hung up on me.    I ask my Vet if there was any snack products for pets that she trusted and her reply was not any more. She said companies like Nestles say they are made in America but really they are made in China and packaged in America. Reason being China would not package anything without their bar codes and Name on the packaging. In turn American companies began buying their products un-packaged and doing their own. She said that the only dog foods she felt she could trust was Pedigree which is made here in Franklin, Tennessee. You can all find some interesting reading below!    .Now yall made know why I could for Kasey and give her human jerky treats................jmho   http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/red-flag-ingredients/propylene-glycol-dog-food-aid-or-automotive-anti-freeze/     http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-industry-exposed/dog-food-chin/     http://rt.com/usa/220135-chinese-dog-food-deaths/   http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recall/chicken-jerky-treats-suspects/   http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/05/19/toxic-jerky-treats-linked-to-more-than-1000-dog-deaths/

quote  "Wife loves how happy and content your baby looks." Your wife says content and all of my friends that know her say she is Spoiled Rotten. I guess they say that because I cook for her. She loves chicken breasts cooked in Crock pot and I have a place I can buy them for about 1.05 a pound frozen. She also gets Jacks Link Turkey Jerky for her treats. Most everything else I have found as treats for dogs are made in China and poisoning dogs so I just feed her human jerky. Costs the same and I trust it because they are made in America and Canada. If anyone here is feeding their dogs WAGGIN TAILS Chicken Jerky you need to go on line and see how many dogs they have killed or made sick on them. I bet you will stop buying them if you love your dogs. A lot of people are suing that company. I think instead of suing the company they need to sue the people that sell the products so they will get pulled from the shelves..........jmho

I think it should be made a law that every protest must first be issues a permit to protest and that permit is only good for 1 protest and the permits should cost $100.00 each. If they protest without one they are allowed to be arrested for protesting without a permit and fines for each protester should be $500.00. It would not be a racist law because there are many white people in these protests and should all be treated the same when arrested. No Exceptions......................jmho

Here is my Kasey girl. I rescued her from a huge Yellow tomcat that evidently stole her from a litter of puppies from some where and was trying to kill her. I hear her yapping outside under my truck. I had seen this big yellow cat many times and was probably 15 lbs + in size. I ran back in house and got a rough rider loaded with shorts and a pan of water, laid down beside the truck and threw the water on them. The cat raised it's head and I shot it and this bleeding ugly long wet puppy came waddling out form under my truck. picked her up and brought her in the house. She was bleeding from her nose on outside and from her ears where the cat scratched them. Other wise unscathed. A nice warm bath cleaned her up and I realized that this pup had not been weened yet. Still had foggy blue film on eyes and puppy breath. I had to bottle feed her about a month while getting her started on soft dog foods. That was 15+ years ago. [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Kasey%20and%20Girl%20Dog/Fishpictures005_zpsf16a2e75.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Kasey%20and%20Girl%20Dog/PictureorVideo007_zpsf3576786.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Kasey%20and%20Girl%20Dog/KaseyandGirlDog011_zps33ef6d7c.jpg.html][/URL] She thinks she owns the Jeep and it is not allowed to go anywhere without her so he in the last picture she has it blocked until I tell her to get in the back seat........... :rofl:

  :rofl: I have made the remark a 1000 times that if Chihuahuas had the size of a Pit or German Shepard and the temperament of the Chihuahua they would be probably the most dangerous dog on earth.................jmho

I would rather have alligators because you don't have to wonder if they are dangerous. You know they are and they don't have that on/off switch. Theirs is on all the time.........................jmho

I don't know if this counts but I have a Tanfoglio Llama 380 caliber and I dearly love it. Will eat anything I feed it. Never FTF's of any type. It is the one from Stoger Arms in NJ so it's one of the oldies but goodies. Had to have extra magazines custom made for it but they work as well as factory. Probably the most accurate 380 caliber I own..............jmho

All those morons do is look for a crowd and then they burst in and interrupt it. They don't care what it is about as long as the news medias might cover them which of course they do. If the press would quite promoting these protests and begin degrading them they might quit all their BS!!!!!!!.................jmho

I would guess his wife hated him to be selling off his collection. He is probably rolling over in his grave............jmho

I noticed after my encounter with that truck back in 78 and they removed my spleen that my ability to consume even a small amount of alcohol it effected me far more than it did before my lost spleen. I don't drink at all if I am away from home and have to drive. Here at home I might take a small glass of Gentleman Jack and sip on it and I can feel the effect in a short time. My party days are over anyway so not really an issue with me these days................jmho

The Karma of pro-gun is on the rise for sure. As more and more small businesses feel the pain of going gun free and look at their bottom lines each month it might finally begin to sink in. I think a lot of what is happening to small businesses is that because many or most of their clientele that do business with them go concealed. The way that goes is the business owner does not realize that 2/3 rd's or more of their business were pro gun people. They didn't know it until the signs went up and business declined.     In most cases the only people that approached them are the anti-gun people. Pumping all the ridderick of negative gun beliefs so that was all they hear. I think what needs to happen is small groups of pro-gun folks need to get out and talk with small business owners and put a little bird in their ear informing them that possibly 2/3rds to 3/4 of their business are legal gun permit people they will lose when the signs go up. It won't take but a few minutes and you don't have to go out of your way to dod it. Just next time your in a business you trade with often that has not put signs up or even those that have. It might be to every ones benefit to take a few minutes and share the pro-gun side about his or her business................jmho

True for sure!!!!............................ :up: :up: :usa: :usa:

  In Apolda Germany, in the 1800's a man named Louis Doberman needed a courageous, guard dog with strong mouth, good nose and one who would be protective.  Herr Doberman had various jobs, which required protection.  It has never been proven just what he did, but some have said he was a tax collector, while others maintained he was a night watchman.  For whatever reason he succeeded in fixing the guarding character in the dog he created, but was not really interested in the conformation aspects of that dog.   While crossing many breeds to obtain what he wanted, he did not keep records of these crosses, so we have to rely on others who knew him to supply us with some of his efforts.   According to his son, Herr Doberman owned a black bitch called Bissart who had tan markings and a gray undercoat.  One interesting thing about Bissart was her naturally short tail and a short coat.  He tried to produce a naturally short tail by selective breeding but was unsuccessful.  We do know that some of the breeds that were used were a gray Pinscher, a black and tan butchers dog and a local sheep dog type.  After his death in 1894, the Germans named the breed Doberman-pinscher in his honor, but a half-century later they dropped the pinscher because it was a German word for Terrier and was no longer appropriate.  The Germans goal was to develop a dog capable of the ultimate in protection and companionship.  They selected the bravest, toughest and most loyal.  These headstrong dogs were known as "Doberman's dogs" or "Thuringia Pinschers," and were sharp, aggressive with other dogs, of medium size, with a body that is compactly built, muscular, and distrustful of strangers.  

I would never leave a toddler or even little older child alone with a big dog. If anyone has ever really paid attention while in the room and seen a toddler try and play with a dog, the child treats it like any other toy, pulls it's tail. pulls on its ears, pokes it in it's eyes or tries to. Most parents think it's cute that the dog is laying with the child but don't realize the dog may not appreciate all that the child is innocently doing. They don't realize the dog is not a toy. And most of al and  don't care if it is a child or an adult. No dog big or small, full blooded or mutt like you to put your face down close to theirs and stare at them. I am not sure why but I think at that point any dog either feels threatened or challenged and will in most case snap at your face. I'm sure this may have happened to folks here. I know when I was younger it happened to me a couple times but when the dog growled I backed away..........jmho

I think most folks that own Pit Bulls don't ever consider what they were originally bred for and that was to fight to the death in a pit for competition and gambling. Those Pit Bulls from back in the beginning are the same blood lines that about 99.9% of them at some level still have. Yea, you may have a Pit that is 25th+ generation from their beginning but somewhere deep in that dog is it's true breeding and you never know when or if it might show up. The other dog folks have failed to mention is the Doberman. It is another dog that was cross bred by the Germans back in the early days to be a mean vicious dog used by military for tracking and guard use. They are also a dog that was bred for a specific reason and they cannot be trusted. The Germans did this because they could not get this type of reaction out of the German Shepherds they had hope to achieve. It was a lot more difficult to make the Shepherds to be as aggressive as they wanted thus came the Doberman..............jmho   More and more these days your finding law enforcement beginning to use large generalized mutts for training and having great success with them.

No doubt it will be an interesting debate for sure....................jmho

Yep, and they are also a protected species and if you think about it they do us humans a great service by cleaning up all the dead nasty things laying on and beside the roads and highways.....................jmho  The larger ones that are out west can have a wing span of up to and over 6-8 feet and they call them Turkey Buzzards out there.......................... :popcorn: :popcorn:

Yep, I have heard about those places and I have heard about people getting bit and dying from the bite because they had faith that GOD would protect and heal them. I guess they must not have been real true believers and GOD knew what was really in their hearts....... jmho I don't think it is to smart to tempt GOD and then when something happens and the person dies they say it was GODS will. Sorry but to me that is just another way of committing suicide in which the Bible also says that is the Sin that you cannot be forgiven for. Again,...................... jmho