Where do you get off "diagnosing" people with mental illness and
claiming they abuse their pets based upon simple questions posed in a
pet owners' forum? What are your credentials for such diagnoses, other
than the sheer volume of the effluent you post (and post and post, and
re-post) to newsgroups?

My dog is quite happy, thank you very much, and has no reason to fear
me. Other than gentle verbal admonishments, she has never been
punished by me for doing what a dog is meant to do. She greets me with
joy when I enter the room, and likes nothing more than to lay in my
lap whenever she has the chance.

"YHOWER" mental illness is QUITE evident in "yHOWER" posts, "HOWEver,"
Jerry.

Please keep your armchair quackery to yourself. And while you're busy
looking up the mental illnesses of other people, why don't you take a
look in the mirror?