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Friday, November 10, 2023

5 dog breeds this veterinarian says he’d never own

No matter how experienced you are with pet care, getting a new dog can be intimidating. And depending which canine organization you ask, there are several hundreds of dog breeds in the world — how do you know which is the right one for you? 

It’s not an easy question. In fact, it might be easier to narrow down dogs you don’t want first.

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Four of the five dogs named are for health reasons, but the number one dog on the list is the Chow.

Brewvet had mentioned them in a previous post, talking about how unpredictable they are, and I have to agree with him.
For a short while, I lived on a small piece of property that had two houses on it, and the guy in the other house owned a Chow he let run free. I would come in from work and that fucking dog would be laying in its yard 50 yards away. Most of the time it would ignore me, but once every 2-3 weeks it would charge at me for no reason as I got out of my truck and was half way to my house. Fortunately it was gun shy so when I pulled my pistol it would turn away, but once I had to crank off a round right in front of it before it would stop.
The only reason I didn't drop it was because the neighbor was such a fucking punk that I knew he'd poison my dog in my fenced back yard while I was at work because I killed his. That dog was the reason I moved, and a year or two later I heard the Chow attacked his young daughter.