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Muttley: Now a question of Life or Death
Hi, Jerry!
If I were in Paul's place, I'd try on Muttley the gentlest training method I know: YOUR method. But I'm not Paul - apparently, he doesn't want to try it, because of the way you come across in your posts here. Which is a pity, but there's just as much as one can do, in order to persuade a stranger to at least READ (what harm can be in that?!) those 75 pages that might save his dog. Diddy's offer, at the time when it was made, reminded me of Tara O. and her dog, Summer. Had Tara agreed to send Summer to you, the dog would have lived, instead of being euthanized for no other reason than the fact that Tara couldn't handle her anymore. When I read her story, I wondered what would I have done, in Tara's place: supposing, for instance, that I had a dog I couldn't manage and everybody would have told me that I had no choice but to put it down; everybody, except someone about whose training style I didn't have a good opinion at all - someone like, say, Handsome Jack Morrison. Would I have let my dear dog go to him, or would I rather have had put it down, in order to save it from something that might have been worse than death? But... IS there anything really "worse than death", I wonder? I think that, if someone I had considered a nut and a sadist, would have offered to give my dog a last chance to stay alive, I'd have taken it with both my hands; I'd have at least gone over to meet him, see how he behaved towards his own dogs in Real Life, let him try to apply his crazy method to the dog I had so miserably failed - and if the dog was responding well to the trainer and his training method, I'd be VERY grateful to him and openly admit that I had been wrong all along: no matter how abhorrent to me his training methods were, they were fine with me, since they allowed my dog to live instead of having to be put down. I don't know if this strange behaviorist whom Paul has hired to train Muttley will be more successful than Diddy would have been, or than Janet was; but it's at least another chance for Muttley to stay alive - at least, for the time being. Lucy |
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