{"id":1408,"date":"2011-01-17T17:54:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T00:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2011-01-19T09:34:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T16:34:38","slug":"more-on-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"More on Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another thing that’s got me off-kilter today is that a new family has moved into a house at the end of the street, and they’ve got three bullmastiffs<\/a> in their yard. <\/p>\n

I don’t have a general problem with the bullmastiff breed. I mean, it’s not like they’re pit bulls<\/a>. But I have a problem with these three dogs.<\/p>\n

A bullmastiff is totally capable of ripping a three year old child to shreds in seconds<\/em>, and these particular bullmastiffs are obviously convinced that their job is to scare away anybody who happens to get too close to their property. Unfortunately, “too close” includes the sidewalk, and in particular a stretch of sidewalk that we walk down twice each day—once to go to the park, and once to come back.<\/p>\n

They’re behind a wrought iron fence. A wrought iron fence that has lots of gaps<\/em> in it. And my three year old is CRAZY about dogs, ADORES them, wants nothing more in his whole soul than to get up right next to them and pat them and be licked by them, and when he sees three bullmastiffs leaping around behind a wrought iron fence and barking their heads off—barking a message that to an adult human translates very clearly to “Put a toe on my property and I will FUCK YOU UP”—what he thinks is “Ooh! Doggies!”<\/p>\n

It just makes our daily walk a lot more stressful. And that family has a kid (an older kid, but still) living there, too. Why on earth would you want three big angry aggro dogs in a house with kids<\/em>? It’s senseless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another thing that’s got me off-kilter today is that a new family has moved into a house at the end of the street, and they’ve got three bullmastiffs in their yard. I don’t have a general problem with the bullmastiff breed. I mean, it’s not like they’re pit bulls. But I have a problem with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}