Barking is a natural instinct for dogs
As a matter of fact our male dog has saved us before as well as the people at the flats.
EDITOR – With regards to the pellet gun dog shooter story, I agree with the newspaper as this is not fair towards the poor doggy. We are also sitting with problem as well with our two dogs.
We are based within Doonside in Beach Road and behind our house is a block of flats.
Our dogs bark when they see faces or people they are not use to and it’s supposed to be that way, as they are protecting us. Someone at the block of flats has now in the last two weeks filled a vinegar bottle and on the second occasion, a honey bottle with water which they threw towards the dogs from the top. This is not fair. It’s easy for people to say control your animals. Animals are not as we are or children where you can walk to them and say calm down and stop barking.
If they don’t know you, they will protect their premises and the family they have grown up with. That’s a natural instinct for dogs.
As a matter of fact our male dog has saved us before as well as the people at the flats. There were guys breaking into the cars parked at the flats and my dog was barking madly at about 3.30am. I woke up and actually went out of our house with only a baseball bat to chase the guys. The people at the flats saw what I did and even told my wife I was brave to do that.
One of the delegates currently staying in the flats has learnt that when our dogs bark a certain way in the morning hours, there is something wrong. My dog has saved my wife who was hanging clothing on the line when a snake slithered up to her feet. He saw and killed the snake but not before the snake managed to bite our dog a few times. We had to rush him to the vet.
The moral of the story is that we shouldn’t abuse our animals and people must not take action on animals that are not even theirs.
ANTON LABUSCHAGNE
