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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dirty" data-source="post: 347431" data-attributes="member: 6535">I’m not defending dog parks. I’m promoting socializing your dog with other dogs. You had made the statement something like “Nothing good can come from letting your dog run around with strange dogs”. I disagree with that statement only. I think it’s very beneficial. You maybe meant that only in regards to dog parks, so if I took that out of context I apologize. I may have taken that statement and went out in the rhubarb a bit. The socializing needs to be in a controlled environment, which a dog park usually is not. That being said, I think a lot of people fail to let there dogs hang out with other dogs and it creates problems down the road. I know a few owners who have made that mistake.Here I go out in the weeds again about something not related to pit bulls, but I do want to say one more thing. Some people judge everything about their hunting dog or other hunting dogs by how good of a hunter he/she is or by the behavior of that dog out in the field. If the dog is not a top notch performer it is a shitty dog or the owner did a shitty job. Not every dog owner is a master trainer or can afford one, or can afford a dog from a top notch breeder. Nor is everyone great at picking a dog or a breeder. Nor is everyone out to actually have a top notch hunting dog or has adequate time to put in that training even if they have one. Nor does every bit of good advice on a dog have to come from a top notch trainer or breeder. A hunting dog is a hunting dog maybe 3 or 4 months a year…maybe is in the field 20 to 50 days a year. Maybe more like 5 or 10 for a lot of folks. Yet they are a family dog and family member 12 months/365 days a year. I know some great folks who are shitty hunters and I haven’t written them off yet. I don’t care how one person chooses to judge their own dog I guess but it does kind of irk me when someone judges all other dogs and dog owners off of what they eventually have accomplished when they have a really good dog, have gotten the training thing down finally, or have the funds to let someone else figure it all out for them. I have had great hunting dogs and have hunted with some that are great and some not so much, but when I invite someone to go hunting and someone is reluctant to bring their dog for fear I will be unimpressed or even upset, I say “Bring your dog! It’s just a hunt, not a contest. Cold beer afterwards no matter what.”That is all.</blockquote>

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