If you have a problem with the way I train my dog, fine voice your opinion. I will listen until you turn blue. But bio-tch when you start personally attacking me, and making comments about how I should never have children you’re taking it too far. I am one of the lucky ones that have never encountered being bullied, but today at 25 was the day where I felt completely de-graded and absolutely bullied by a lady twice my age. Smarten up, and do some research before you voice your extremely false opinion. —With Love, Chevy’s Mommy
This article appears in May 2-8, 2013.
I’d like to take a verbal broadsword to old broads like that – she did her bitter howl (probably ’cause no one else wants to listen to her) – don’t let a twisted old trout make you feel bad about yourself, OP.
She’s just jealous anyway ’cause she has to carry her withered ovaries around in a Wallysmart shopping cart.
chevy, what a great name. don’t sweat the small stuff. sweetie. alliteration for all^^
She sounds like a buttinsky but the $64,000 (+GST) question is “How were you training your dog?” Were you yelling at it? I don’t know but I bet if the older woman wrote a bitch, it would sound completely different. Just saying. Just saying that I’m “just saying”.
yeh, i am wondering what OP was doing too. i haven’t confronted anyone lately who was mistreating their dog (so it wasn’t me) , but i am certainly capable of it, and would likely drag their personality into it. same if i saw someone mistreating a child, or girlfriend/wife. it IS my business when someone is mistreating a helpless creature.
anyone posting here has the floor, so to speak. is presenting their case to favour themselves. if someone felt the need to blast OP about how she was treating her dog, what was she doing? and twice her age is only 50, yes, i am older than that, but even at 30 or 40 wouldn’t consider 50 an old trout. so why would we assume that OP was just meandering along feeding her dog cookies and kisses when she was unfairly attacked by an old harridan?
or was OP doing something that she probably shouldn’t have, was seen and reprimanded for and shamed. she does say she felt degraded, why? if someone confronted me on the street and started accusing me of being a fat old athiest lesbian with hairy legs i wouldn’t feel degraded or shamed. i may be embarassed at having some lunatic single me out for a tirade, but it wouldn’t affect how i feel about myself. however if someone confronted me and yelled because my rambunctious pup rears up on his hind legs and flails his paws around whenever he sees a person and yelled at me for his lack of proper training, oh yes, i would be mortified. and then brain splitting angry when i got home, because of course, it’s true. and i would loathe that person who pointed out my failing.
so, OP. what were you doing when the wrath of a dog lover rained upon your head?
What did you do? When people choose to inflict harm on a child or animal in a public place it becomes my business. Not saying you did this…. Just… Usually innocent people tell the whole story.
Never been bullied? @ 25?!?!?
This BS is the least of your worries.
Jebus, … were you home-schooled?
Did you grow up on a remote island off the coast of Mozambique?
There are crazy people everywhere…
You were not bullied. Stop all improper use of this word.
I’m thinking Zed that she was 6′ 5″, 250 lbs at age ten hence the lack of bullying.
The whole story goes a bit like this: Chevy and I were practicing re-call in and out of the lake (he runs in, swims – gets his water toy and brings it back) he gets love, and affection for doing a great job. He did this a handful of times, than went to mingle with said ladies two dogs. Everything was going peachy until I called Chevy to my side, to fix his E-collar. We use this tool to help remind Chevy what he needs to be doing, to keep him focused when doing a re-call and to keep him safe off-leash. Generally people are misinformed and inadequately educated on the use of an E-collar, so they jump to conclusions and judge harshly. I myself was extremely hesitant to use this way of training until I researched the method, and went through extensive training with Unleashed Potential. (Highly recommended by the way) After my fixing of Chevys collar the lady voiced her opinion on e-collars, but did not have all the facts straight – I tried explaining how it works, taking the collar off Chevy and showing her what level it was set at (13 by the way) un-detectable to a person, having enough of the rant I called Chevy to leave trying to end the conversation. However ignoring her and trying to leave only upset her more, which is when she started personally attacking me, and yes in my eyes she absolutely was verbally bullying me. I left upset, and emotional. But, from this I’ve learned that people are downright nasty. Maybe I need thicker skin, and to learn to not take things personally – but the next time I see said lady at Long lake, I won’t be so nice and I will be ready to defend myself.
long lake hmmmm 2 dogs hmmmm. was the lady tall and lean with a luxurious shock of steel grey hair? did the dogs look like the ones in my avatar? may have been my better half.
she didn’t mention anything to me when she got back and has only raised her voice once in my memory, when a burglar waltzed into the living room while were in jammies.
kinda cool if it was her, it’s usually me that gets feisty.
re your SHOCK collar, not everyone shares your opinion of them, and it’s not because they are misinformed.
and re the bullying… I agree with meaty, unless she followed you home, to work, to school, waylaid you in alleys and stores, infiltrating your email and social sites, dogging your heels and tormenting you, it was not bullying. I do NOT think you have any right to wear that term after a verbal tongue lashing.
forgot to say in earlier post, what a gorgeous pupster that chevy is!