Dogs our best friends

Well, is this saying true. And is there not another sayint that diamonds are a girl´s best friends.

I must admit I really like diamonds, but he what woman does not. But I also like dogs, I was never afraid of dogs. Yesterday when we drove to the 23rd district for a tennis match (I am a really bad tennis player, I like the sport aspect of tennis more..the running) in the hall one of the stuff there had a golden retriever a real beautiful one. This dog was so nice he showed no sign of being afraid but also no sign of being agressive.

Hachiko

And here we come to another part, the part of agressive dogs. A dog is never never ever agressive when born. It is us the owners the humans who make a dog agressive by the way we treat them and what we teach them. When we only teach a dog that he has to watch out and punish the dog for anything he might have done wrong, no wonder that this dog gets agressive he doesn´t know anything else. But this is not the fault of the poor dog, it is the fault of the person who owns the dog. If a dog bites a girl we should not say that this type of dog is agressive we should ask how the owner treated this dog. What made this dog get so agressive. Of course we should feel sorry for the girl who got bite, but also for the dog because we don´t know what kind of life this poor animal had so far. And what kind of bad treatments from the owner caused this action. Dogs are very loyal animals unlike cats. There is a saying that goes that when you have a dog you are the owner but when you have a cat you are a servant. Dogs are truly one of the most loyal animals and this is even more sad because no matter how bad some people treat their dogs the dogs stay loyal. The could also bite the owner but they don´t. They are too loyal, that is kind of sad.

Another problem is that when a family has a young kid and this kid wants a dog as a present. Yeah we all know the story how often does a dog or any other pet end up under the Christmas tree and how often do we find that pet a few weeks later lost alone in the middle of nowhere. That is not a way to treat a family member...yes pets are family members. We are supposed to take care of them from the moment on we buy them.

Last year a great do died. His name was Dusty, he was the family dog and he was kept by my brother Günther. He was a real fighter. He had a hard attack twice. The first one was two years ago at the beginning of the new year. He was already a very old dog than but he recovered greatly and even survived a second one. But than it was just to much and he was very old already. But what made me happy is that he had a good life everybody in the family loved him and although he was old he often acompanied me on my Sunday morning running tours, and yes he still could keep up with me. He died in peace just fell asleep and did not wake up anymore. Of corse we were all sad but my brother knew that he wanted a new family member and he knew what kind of dog he wanted.

A Japanese AKITA and of course he named him after the famous Akita-dog who is a symbol in Japan for true loyality. He even has a statue in Japan, the original of course. This was a dog who loved the owner so much taht even after the owner died he stayed around he did not accept another owner and went to the grave every single day until he died. This was a real loyal dog. Well the dog of my brother named Hachiko is very bullheaded I must admit but on the other side when I hear my brother talking about his adventures with him I know that my brother loves this dog and would never treat him bad. We even think about going on holiday together with Hachiko of course. Him without his dog is hard to imagine. And  luckily the training in dog school makes him less bullheaded, but he still thinks that he can just take my brother to a walk to "Fressnapf" and he would get whatever he wants.

But why do so many people treat their dogs bad? Don´t they know that dogs have feelings to, this can´t be, or? I mean dogs are great companions, they are always there for us no matter if we are happy or sad.

But for those who know what kind of responsibility they get in when they buy a dog, even buying the dog is a lot of research because so many people sell dogs that they keep under horrible circumstances and conditions. For a lot of people selling dogs is just a source of income a blooming industry. When I helped my brother getting his dog I found out what kind of bad industry this is. There were offers online that even said that if you pay € 300,00 in advance the dog would be in front of your home door by tomorrow morning, oh I forgot to mention that dis dog would have been on his way from Africa??? Or another woman selling dogs in the Czech Republic and would be willing do drop the dog as she has to pass by Vienna anyway but of course for another extra money and somehow all these pictures online from those cute puppies look alike. I mean like the same dog that is on at least 5 different offers for sale from 5 different places, really strange or.

Anyway if your are aware of the responsibility of buying a dog and adding a new member to the family also make sure that you get the dog from a reliable place. Dogs are great animals and they deserve to be treated with kindness and respect.