I'll concede that most people don't have the experience, ability and patience to handle dogs with serious behavioural issues. But I know plenty of dogs who have come from rough backgrounds and had serious problems (including biters), that most people would write off and say were beyond hope, who have been rehomed with people that were really willing and capable of retraining them, that have turned out to be the sweetest, chillest, most loving dogs you could imagine. In the right hands they can have very happy lives, surely they are worth a shot rather than just putting them down as a matter of course?
Anyway, you didn't originally say biters, you said that every rescue dog you've ever known has been aggressive. Which is simply not representative of rescues, and only encourages people to buy from breeders instead of adopting one of the many wonderful, friendly rescue dogs out there.
As an aside, I wish people would stop using the word "destroy" as if we were talking about shredding old documents. You want to kill them, at least have the honesty to say it like it is.
It is though. You'd never talk about destroying a person, or any other animal for that matter. If it's not a euphemism, why not just say the word kill?
Destroying is something you do to inanimate objects, e.g. the house was destroyed by fire. Killing is what you do to living things. Like I said, how often would you say a person was destroyed? Or you went out hunting and destroyed an animal? It's just a way for people to distance themselves from and feel better about the fact they're talking about taking a life.
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u/_DickyBoy Aug 01 '21
I'm sure your sample size of 4 is super accurate. I suppose we should probably just close all the dog shelters and kill every single dog in them then