12-14-2009, 02:47 PM
D, the key to my original answer was the last sentence in OP's quote:
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If Kerry hadn't told me that and I had touched the dog's belly and she bit me who is at fault?, me or the dog?
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How can it be the dog's fault if she never told him not to pet it a certain way? It can't. It can only be her fault for putting OP in that situation un-warned.
If I had any kind of animal that needed rules to petting it, I lock it up until the people go home. Does not matter how gentle the animal is - it has that 'exception'. Why chance it?
Any animal that has the audacity to growl at my guests will be put away! And if I were in your home and your dogs growled at me because they were 'done' being petted, I'd be asking for them to be put away or I'd leave if this caused my host to be insulted. That is intolerable behavior with guests in your house.
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If Kerry hadn't told me that and I had touched the dog's belly and she bit me who is at fault?, me or the dog?
<<<<<<<<<<
How can it be the dog's fault if she never told him not to pet it a certain way? It can't. It can only be her fault for putting OP in that situation un-warned.
If I had any kind of animal that needed rules to petting it, I lock it up until the people go home. Does not matter how gentle the animal is - it has that 'exception'. Why chance it?
Any animal that has the audacity to growl at my guests will be put away! And if I were in your home and your dogs growled at me because they were 'done' being petted, I'd be asking for them to be put away or I'd leave if this caused my host to be insulted. That is intolerable behavior with guests in your house.