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04-27-2024, 05:33 PM #44
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04-27-2024, 09:11 PM #47
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I get where you are coming from- but I think this is a major gap in the mentality of extreme rural areas versus urban and suburban areas.
Everyone in rural areas get what happed here - and she prob got street cred for that - unfortunately, that's less than a half a percent of the population.
Don't forget - we are talking South Dakota here - with an entire state population of just over 900,000
And a capital city just over 14,000
And a bunch of random spare animals everywhere - it's not like rural Michigan or Georgia.
There is no major metro area you can put the dog on ******** and say come get
You make animals work out/ or put them down/ it's how it is.
Farmers don't need a people biter, and chicken killer.
Crickets was a bad dog. Crickets had to go.
Many people there will look at her admirably for this -meaning they know she has what it takes.
However, the fact that she publicize this in a book is exactly why she probably doesn't need to be VP.
Too secluded of a culture.
At the same time - idk - it might be exactly what we need.
Not electable imo.“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
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04-27-2024, 10:52 PM #48
I grew up in rural MI so I get that. Now live in S Cal but I don't know. To me dogs are just for the most part such trusting animals. The dog for example that we have that 'guards' us lol, all 12 pounds of him, is actually the sweetest, nicest, most wanting to please you dog I have ever had. But if he sees a strange dog or person near us? He does not like it and gives all his 12 pounds of devotion to protecting us. And that is what I think her dog was probably doing.
Here he is right now....'protecting' haha.
Words to live by...."You're at the shopping mall with your girl but a hot chick walks by. Are you going to look at the hot girl? No. You use your peripheral vision."
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04-27-2024, 10:54 PM #49
So the bottom line for me is I like Kristi and her values and stances on most issues. She would make a really good VP and maybe even a great future POTUS.
But damn I really would have second thoughts about someone who was so callous with a life.Words to live by...."You're at the shopping mall with your girl but a hot chick walks by. Are you going to look at the hot girl? No. You use your peripheral vision."
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04-27-2024, 10:56 PM #50
Growing up in MI I saw some, not a ton, but some women who hunted and fished. All white women. Total turn off to me. Just not something imo that a woman should do.
That is why when I moved to CA 14 years ago and started dating Asian women? My eyes were opened to not only what feminine women really are but also how they can age and not grow into a 180 pound toad.Words to live by...."You're at the shopping mall with your girl but a hot chick walks by. Are you going to look at the hot girl? No. You use your peripheral vision."
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04-27-2024, 11:10 PM #51
I have owned and train 100s and 100s or race horses in my life. I have had to have the vet come and put them to sleep humanely more times than I like to count. ALL, and I repeat ALL, were done because they were either too sick to save (colic) or had a broken bone etc. And if anyone knows horses, a broken bone is basically death to them.
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I owned and trained a mare called Persistance that was worth well over $100,000. Got a bone chip in her knee and after 3 surgeries and $15000 later we finally thought we got her right. She ended up getting very sick after her 3rd surgery (blood issue) and I spent another $5000 or so trying to save her. She ended up dropping dead right in front of me in my barn.
Point is I am more than willing to put down an animal if there is no hope. But I will spend any amount of money to give them a fighting chance first. Hell I spent $10,000 on a former rescue dog that we adopted that kept getting kidney stones and we had 4 surgeries on her.
But to take a dog out, a healthy dog, and shoot it because you didn't think it was acting how you wanted it to? F that.Words to live by...."You're at the shopping mall with your girl but a hot chick walks by. Are you going to look at the hot girl? No. You use your peripheral vision."
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04-28-2024, 06:18 AM #52
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04-28-2024, 11:41 AM #53
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It's an actually not surprising you don't have an understanding of this type of culture.
This is what people of your ideology will consider "fly over country" that you'll may never get.(dunno)
Lack of acceptance/understanding of diverse cultures isn't surprising at all.
You have multiple types that would handle us differently.
Suburban urban type: post on social media, or local outlet "free dog needs caring home, has all shots and records" - or maybe even local stores designed for that.
Baller types - high end people - or penny day trading race horse owning ballers like Optimus prime- they can sink a bunch of money into each animal at will- or use funds to help facilitate care/training/transfer to another.
Then you for these legit rural/ranch type places - they only can sink so munch money into so many animals / give away can happen- but each ranch already has its own burden of excess- and there isn't really a family to take something as a pet -and if so it better be a safe one - because there is already too many stray unsafe ones already.
Cricket was a people biting, livestock killing, liability. Cricket had to go.
Every rural area each type non-baller gets this situation 100% - and admires her for making the hard call that nobody liked to do- and doing it herself instead of passing the burden.“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
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04-28-2024, 11:44 AM #54
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04-28-2024, 12:09 PM #55
Not passing the burden on to the next owner is the main issue here. After the dog killed the chickens and then attempted biting her, the owner, there's no way you pawn that off on another person to deal with. In fact, if the owner is honest, there's no way they could withold that information to a potential taker and then if they did disclose it, who would want the dog? Maybe a special dog whisperer? Those people aren't exactly all over the place...
Well meaning, elderly man with a poor memory...pause
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04-28-2024, 12:12 PM #56
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