[dentrecords]

A lot of people get them for the wrong reasons - because they want a dog as a fashion accessory... that reminds me of a show my girlfriend was watching last week... this was a show in the vein of the apprentice, but for fashion designers... the worst designer is cut each week. This particular episode's "fashion accessory" was a small toy dog. This attitude is totally unacceptable in my opinion... this is a living breathing animal that feels and thinks, and it's being treated as an accessory. That kind of thinking does not promote responsible owners that want to train and care for the animal properly, and it seems that a few bad apples wanting some aggressive arm jewelry ruin it for all the responsible owners.

I couldn't give a crap that my dog is half staffordshire, or half lab. He'd be fine if he was all lab, or all staffordshire. It was his fun and lively demeanor that drew my girlfriend and I to him in the shelter in the first place.