Quote Originally Posted by hollohas View Post
Not what I said. I said the law is the law and I have nothing wrong with it. I'm not questioning the law or how it is enforced. I was questioning your very general statement that dogs can't be trained not to spook. You're obviously very worked up so I think I'll let it rest rather than ruin your evening.
My evening is just fine thanks. Taken out of context I could see how you would think I was oblivious to dog training and didn't know anything about certain dogs who are trained certain ways. It also isn't true that 100% of all dogs can be trained to not spook by gunfire so as long as that statistic isn't 100% then we can't expect EVERY dog to react to ALL unknowns in a predictable manner. I stand by my previous statement which was dogs couldn't be trained to not spook but if you apply context you see that I was saying that dogs can't be trained to not spook to ALL situations which could make lack of leash a non-issue. You chose to see it as I was saying that no dog could be trained to not spook about ANY situations which is a big difference between those two little words. Still has no bearing on this conversation because it's impossible to take a dog and make them spook proof from all situations, known and unknown. After all by definition if a situation is unknown how can you train a dog against it?

I can't believe I've even responding to this actually. It's reading comprehension at it's most basic form.