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brian64

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Ok, so I've told this story before right after it happened. But, I was walking my beloved setter, Scamper, RIP, when all of a sudden about 30 of them wiener dogs came at us. Scamp was all ready to fight at first, but as they made a circle around us and started darting in and out like some sort of evil mongoose machine. Then Scamp but his back to mine and did his best to fend them off. Now, if there weren't a bunch of kids playing close by, my instincts were to just stomping them damn things into greasy spots, but even then, 30? the odds were that at least one of them SOBs were gong to snip my Achilles tendon, and bring me down to their level. I was just on the verge of stomping them anyways, kids be damned, when their owner came out and started grabbing them up.
I've been chased by Great Danes on my bike, had a pitty chase me out of a yard, and a Pyrenees once bit me while I was trying to feed it. But, those dachshunds were the first time I ever thought that I might not make it out alive. Even if I had been carrying, I would have needed several magazines to clear the field.

What exactly kind of psychopath owns 30 Dachshunds and lets them run wild terrorizing people?
 

cosmicfolklore

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What exactly kind of psychopath owns 30 Dachshunds and lets them run wild terrorizing people?
Old people. They were supposed to be in a fence, but they are crafty enough to figure shit out and get out. So many dogs in a fence, you could smell their yard for miles on a hot summer day. Luckily, I live no where near there any more.
 

brian64

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Old people. They were supposed to be in a fence, but they are crafty enough to figure shit out and get out. So many dogs in a fence, you could smell their yard for miles on a hot summer day. Luckily, I live no where near there any more.

When I was a very young kid...like around 5 to 7...I had an aunt & uncle who owned several Dachshunds, and I was scared of those things...they were definitely not friendly...mean little buggers.
 

rakovsky

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Not at all, ever deal with a badger? Those dogs were not only selectively bread to chase them out of their burrows but also to kill them. Several feral ones could easily take down a person.
A neighbor's daschund years ago was bad tempered. It had a super loud bark and a companion auxillary daschund. I'm a smaller than normal sized man, but never felt actually threatened by it since it was so small.

In the news story, there were 7 dogs and they included a bull terrier.
In the article you can see a photo with all 7 dogs. One of them is bigger, although I'm not sure how big it would look in real life.
 

Briar Lee

Lifer
Sep 4, 2021
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Humansville Missouri
A dark caution.

For every woman who ends everything on the mansion high on the hilltop, there’s likely a hundred men who do.

Women do not usually have the heart to kill the dog.

Women have one advatange we men do not.

We always see them the same as when they first approached us and we were the luckiest man alive. No matter what.

They see us as why they have to wash dirty underwear.

Betsy was not so old she couldn’t fit in a slinky dress and play a Steinway.

She had options.

Sing one, Leon Ashley


The famous Gene Hackman could get a prescription filled for enough fentanyl to kill a whole bunch of folks.
 
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rakovsky

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They have better temperaments when bred with Yorkshire Terriers...they then become Dorkies:

DorkieDoxieYorkieYorkshireTerrierDachshundMixFrank.jpg
When I read this, I asked my brother what you get when you mix a Daschund and Yorkie?
He got it right.
 

rakovsky

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Ok, so I've told this story before right after it happened. But, I was walking my beloved setter, Scamper, RIP, when all of a sudden about 30 of them wiener dogs came at us. Scamp was all ready to fight at first, but as they made a circle around us and started darting in and out like some sort of evil mongoose machine. Then Scamp but his back to mine and did his best to fend them off. Now, if there weren't a bunch of kids playing close by, my instincts were to just stomping them damn things into greasy spots, but even then, 30? the odds were that at least one of them SOBs were gong to snip my Achilles tendon, and bring me down to their level. I was just on the verge of stomping them anyways, kids be damned, when their owner came out and started grabbing them up.
I've been chased by Great Danes on my bike, had a pitty chase me out of a yard, and a Pyrenees once bit me while I was trying to feed it. But, those dachshunds were the first time I ever thought that I might not make it out alive. Even if I had been carrying, I would have needed several magazines to clear the field.
That's an intense story, Cosmic.
What did the owner say?
A lot of times dog owners' personalities relate to their dogs. They can do anything from apologizing to blaming the person whom the dog was threatening.
I've jogged through rural areas, and out of fear of random dogs I carry mace on my key chain.
With 30 it's intense, and the numbers make them dangerous.
Grabbing an object like a stick is good. Throwing things is good. Looking for the leader and dominating it is good.
 
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rakovsky

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I don't remember conversing with them. If they had initiated words with me, I probably would have regretted what I would have said.
A problem is that if they have the dogs with them, they can feel that they are in a dominant position, and can have aggressive personalities themselves.
I was walking on a beach and a bossy old southern dog owner and his big wife had a big curlyhaired dog, and I was jogging, and it came behind me and toward me like it was going to get close. It was eyeing me with its ears up. Some dogs see people running away from them as prey. I pointed the spraypiece toward the dog in case it came in to bite me, and the dog got scared. The big owner started yelling at me, telling me to walk away. At that point I have a dilemma whether I want to make this an issue. Legally the owner is in the wrong because he needs to have the dog next to himself not next to me unless I am cool with that, which I'm not. But there is no camera recording what is happening. If I get animated, the dog could come in to bite me, I could spray it, and then the big aggressive owner could come to beat me up, and then I would spray him too. So instead I just walked away while watching the dog, without saying anything to the owner while he and his wife yelled at me. It seems better that way than to have a conflict with them.
 

brian64

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Jan 31, 2011
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Ok, so I've told this story before right after it happened. But, I was walking my beloved setter, Scamper, RIP, when all of a sudden about 30 of them wiener dogs came at us. Scamp was all ready to fight at first, but as they made a circle around us and started darting in and out like some sort of evil mongoose machine. Then Scamp but his back to mine and did his best to fend them off. Now, if there weren't a bunch of kids playing close by, my instincts were to just stomping them damn things into greasy spots, but even then, 30? the odds were that at least one of them SOBs were gong to snip my Achilles tendon, and bring me down to their level. I was just on the verge of stomping them anyways, kids be damned, when their owner came out and started grabbing them up.
I've been chased by Great Danes on my bike, had a pitty chase me out of a yard, and a Pyrenees once bit me while I was trying to feed it. But, those dachshunds were the first time I ever thought that I might not make it out alive. Even if I had been carrying, I would have needed several magazines to clear the field.

This could be the basis for a THEM! sequel: THIS TIME IT'S DACHSHUNDS!

Someone with some photo shop skills could really do something with the poster I posted earlier.
 

dd57chevy

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A problem is that if they have the dogs with them, they can feel that they are in a dominant position, and can have aggressive personalities themselves.
I was walking on a beach and a bossy old southern dog owner and his big wife had a big curlyhaired dog, and I was jogging, and it came behind me and toward me like it was going to get close. It was eyeing me with its ears up. Some dogs see people running away from them as prey. I pointed the spraypiece toward the dog in case it came in to bite me, and the dog got scared. The big owner started yelling at me, telling me to walk away. At that point I have a dilemma whether I want to make this an issue. Legally the owner is in the wrong because he needs to have the dog next to himself not next to me unless I am cool with that, which I'm not. But there is no camera recording what is happening. If I get animated, the dog could come in to bite me, I could spray it, and then the big aggressive owner could come to beat me up, and then I would spray him too. So instead I just walked away while watching the dog, without saying anything to the owner while he and his wife yelled at me. It seems better that way than to have a conflict with them.
Not to get too philosophical , but a wise man once told me something about difficult situations . Specifically , encounters with impossible people :

"You either have to kill them .......or leave them alone".

There are people who must hurt , embarrass , humiliate , & be tyrannically contentious to others .
They-aren't-nice-people........
They aren't interested in your side of the story .

So.....you can stop them by killing them .........then you go to prison.........

Or you can just walk away . Leave them alone .
 

Briar Lee

Lifer
Sep 4, 2021
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Follow the money:

Gene Hackman's net worth​

Gene Hackman, whose legendary acting career earned him two Academy Awards and four Golden Globes, among many other accolades, amassed a large net worth before his death in February 2025. Hackman, who recently celebrated his 95th birthday, had an illustrious career which earned him two Academy Awards, two BAFTAs, four Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, solidifying his status as one of the greatest actors in history.

Despite amassing millions throughout his career, he retired from acting in 2004 due to health concerns. The American retired actor and novelist had an estimated net worth of $80 million, according to celebritynetworth.com.

Xxxx

Hornbook law

If Betsy died last, her family gets the 80 million

If Gene died last, his three kids get the 80 million

Assuming they had no wills

But, if Betsy poisoned Gene then Gene’s heirs get all the 80 million

And if Gene poisoned Betsy, her heirs get the 80 million

At a hundred dollars each, that’s 8 million dachshund puppies!

Sing one Porter!

 

rakovsky

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Interesting insight. My little dog is a totally chill sweetheart around people she knows, and with kids, even toddlers who pull on her ears, but she starts growling and tries to jump off my lap when a runner goes past.
It's an instinct like taking down a deer or other herd animal.
 
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Surprised no one shared this song yet:


Mary Provost did not look her best
The day the cops bust into her lonely nest
In the cheap hotel up on Hollywood West
July 29
She’d been lyin’ there for two or three weeks
The neighbours said they never heard a squeak
For hungry eyes that could not speak
Said even little doggies have got to eat
She was a winner
That became the doggie’s dinner
She never meant that much to me
Woe, poor Mary
Mary Provost was a movie queen
Mysterious angel of the silent screen
And run like the wind the nation’s young men steam
When Mary crossed the silent screen
Oh, she came out west from New York
But when the talkies came Mary just couldn’t cope
Her public said Mary take a walk
All the way back to New York
She was a winner
That became the doggie’s dinner
She never meant that much to me
But now I see, poor Mary
Those twin balms didn’t help her sleep
As her nights grew long and her days grew bleak
It’s all downhill once you’ve passed your peak
Mary got ready for that last big sleep
The cops came in and they looked around
Throwing up everywhere over what they found
The handywork of Mary’s little dachshund
That hungry little dachshund
She was a winner
That became the doggie’s dinner
She never meant that much to me
Woe, poor Mary
Poor Mary
Poor Mary
Poor, poor Mary
Poor Mary
Poor Mary
Poor Mary