Originally Posted by
LighrkVader
Thats is very strange. I love when unlikely and inconsequential stuff like that happens.
Sounds like a good time to do a reality check. The batteries stopped working? Or was there a bug? (insert pun about inserting themometers and you being too hot here) Could also be the notorious vigilante thermometer hacker known only as Thermus... Though I have never heard of him operating that far from his base in Shanghai before...
A little rant about the dogs. My parents new dog is amazing, super loving and sweet. But she's wild.. not an easy dog to handle, always getting better and better thanks to my parents dedication though..
This weekend my mother drove 7 hours to a highly reccomended kennel to stay a couple of days there with her while training. The plan was to get some advice from the experts and to make the dog used to the kennel so that she would be comfortable when they leave her there while they're on vacation.
5 minutes into the training the kennel owner starts beating on our dog and brutally strangling her on her leash for even the smallest disobediences. The dog walking a few inches in front of her would result in physical punishment. Hitting her in the face etc. If me or my dad was there, it would have been dealt with immediately, but my mother is different like that... she was in shock and looking at this woman as an authority on dog training. She didn't know what to do, she got scared and it took her quite a while to say anything. When she did, the trainer just disrespected her and continued with her abuse for the rest of the day. That evening my mom called me and almost cried.
She saw several instances of employees being horrible to even puppies in the day she was there. She took the dog and drove home the next morning of course.
After knowing the dog for 5 minutes the trainer decided that the only solution was to have her moved to another family. Which is bullshit. She's a good dog. The trainer would constantly try to break down my moms confidence in having any chance of raising the dog her self. We later did the math and found out that this woman has made the equivalent of a million dollars on moving dogs to new families since she started the kennel.
My mother brought the dog by my apartment yesterday and she was clearly traumatized by the beating, acted very differently. She had slept all day, which she never does, she's usually full of energy. Also she has been obsessively licking her paws ever since she got home. She's never shown any behaviour of that kind before.
And of course my Mom feels horrible for not having the courage to stand up to this "authority figure" and stop the beating.
Fuck that disgusting bitch on the kennel getting such a powertrip out of beating on helpless dogs she made it her job. Part of me would love to drop by and train her for a while.