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New EM Puppy Bane

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TylerDurden

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Steven C said:
He looks like a beast! Big and very good looking. The last pic makes me miss the north east hardwood floors, fireplaces. In Florida there is hardwood but not nearly as common.
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Thanks Steven. The hardwood floors are really good and bad at the same time. I love them and would always prefer them over carpet. However, we are renting, so I placed a lot of cheap rugs to protect the floor from Mastiff feet.
 
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TylerDurden

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3B90779E-6FFD-4FE4-98A0-0AB023326432.jpeg Bane is doing really well and walks and doesn‘t really pay attention to people anymore (unless something seems to be totally off, which I like). However, today the following happened. We were on our daily walk through the neighborhood, which is where many people walk all kinds of dogs. Most of them are totally relaxed and well trained. Bane does really well on lose leash walking, so no issues at all there. We were getting close to our house, and I saw two boys playing on the other side of the street. They were at least 50 feet away and didn‘t even pay attention to us. Suddenly, their mother comes out and shouts something like "Get in the house, you make me really nervous close to these dogs". "This" dog was just on his daily walk and wasn‘t interested in them at all. Regardless, he has been around small children all his life and has always been extremely gentle. Either way, we had no intention to even get to their side of the street.

I really don‘t care what people think or say, but this makes me feel bad for "these" dogs. I totally understand that people are protective of their children, but statements like that are totally unnecessary. It definitely shouldn‘t make me upset, but for some reason it does. I‘m sure she wouldn‘t have said that in case of one of the hyper labs who jump on everybody around here.

By the way, we switched from Batman to Ninja Turtles today.
 
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Smokeycat

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I had a somewhat similar incident when Kryten was maybe 5 months old. Kryten had picked up a stick and was happily shaking his head. A woman walking with 6 young children was coming towards us so I moved off the sidewalk, open field so I was way out of leash range. As she got closer I could hear her telling the kids that they couldn't go to those dogs because the black one was dangerous and would bite and kill them. I was about to say something when one little boy piped up in a voice that clearly indicated his opinion of her statement and said that black dogs weren't bad and that ones just playing. The look on her face was priceless.
There was also the incident where a woman stopped her van next to the fence and then told her granddaughter to run across the road to get away from the dangerous dog, who was lying down over 30 feet from the fence. The little girl did as told, she ran across the road screaming without looking for traffic. By the time I got over the shock of what just happened I could hear the adults in the playground yelling at the woman for risking a child like that.
Both incidents taught me that adults are the problem, some see no problem with forcing their fears on to children instead of trying to overcome those fears for them. For some people I don't think they even realise the problems they are creating for those kids (like the grandmother.) She was so afraid of the dog that the risk of traffic clearly wasn't in her mind.
 
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TylerDurden

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Forgot to post my update for trg :)
Growth seems to be slowing down a bit. He‘s about 165lbs and going to be 37 weeks. However, he‘s getting taller. 31.5 inches at the shoulder and over 32 inches in the back, which looks funny.
 
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trg

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TylerDurden said:
View attachment 60708 Bane is doing really well and walks and doesn‘t really pay attention to people anymore (unless something seems to be totally off, which I like). However, today the following happened. We were on our daily walk through the neighborhood, which is where many people walk all kinds of dogs. Most of them are totally relaxed and well trained. Bane does really well on lose leash walking, so no issues at all there. We were getting close to our house, and I saw two boys playing on the other side of the street. They were at least 50 feet away and didn‘t even pay attention to us. Suddenly, their mother comes out and shouts something like "Get in the house, you make me really nervous close to these dogs". "This" dog was just on his daily walk and wasn‘t interested in them at all. Regardless, he has been around small children all his life and has always been extremely gentle. Either way, we had no intention to even get to their side of the street.

I really don‘t care what people think or say, but this makes me feel bad for "these" dogs. I totally understand that people are protective of their children, but statements like that are totally unnecessary. It definitely shouldn‘t make me upset, but for some reason it does. I‘m sure she wouldn‘t have said that in case of one of the hyper labs who jump on everybody around here.

By the way, we switched from Batman to Ninja Turtles today.
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I see your side of the equation totally, I’m glad Bane is doing better on his walks.
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Forgot to post my update for trg :)
Growth seems to be slowing down a bit. He‘s about 165lbs and going to be 37 weeks. However, he‘s getting taller. 31.5 inches at the shoulder and over 32 inches in the back, which looks funny.
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He looks great! I would tell my kids to get off the street with all that drool too (Smiles). I would be afraid they would drown. He is a handsome boy no doubt. Thanks for the post.
 
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TylerDurden

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Thanks, trg. Good point on the drool :D he had a lot of treats to be fair. It‘s typically not that bad if there is no food involved :) .
 
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TylerDurden

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Smokeycat said:
I had a somewhat similar incident when Kryten was maybe 5 months old. Kryten had picked up a stick and was happily shaking his head. A woman walking with 6 young children was coming towards us so I moved off the sidewalk, open field so I was way out of leash range. As she got closer I could hear her telling the kids that they couldn't go to those dogs because the black one was dangerous and would bite and kill them. I was about to say something when one little boy piped up in a voice that clearly indicated his opinion of her statement and said that black dogs weren't bad and that ones just playing. The look on her face was priceless.
There was also the incident where a woman stopped her van next to the fence and then told her granddaughter to run across the road to get away from the dangerous dog, who was lying down over 30 feet from the fence. The little girl did as told, she ran across the road screaming without looking for traffic. By the time I got over the shock of what just happened I could hear the adults in the playground yelling at the woman for risking a child like that.
Both incidents taught me that adults are the problem, some see no problem with forcing their fears on to children instead of trying to overcome those fears for them. For some people I don't think they even realise the problems they are creating for those kids (like the grandmother.) She was so afraid of the dog that the risk of traffic clearly wasn't in her mind.
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That‘s horrible. Very unfortunate that an adult is willing to create a dangerous situation just to express her own (unreasonable) fears. She clearly wasn‘t interested in the kid‘s wellbeing.
The two boys whose mother came out were beating each other up with sticks, but she was more worried about the totally relaxed dog on the other side of the street. Crazy world....
 
April Nicole

April Nicole

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Unfortunately, big dogs get bad raps mostly from bad owners! I've come across a lot of big dogs who were not properly restrained, or dragging their owners down the street to get at something or someone. It's sad cause then our well meaning, well behaved dogs that have had hours upon hours of training poured into them, get the bad rap as well....

But with that said, I would rather the children that stay away, over the children that run up unannounced jumping all over my dog, not caring to ask permission, getting all up in the dogs face, with the parent doing nothing but searching the cell phone for the latest facebook post. :)
 
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TylerDurden

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He‘s struggling with the heat quite a bit. It‘s extremely humid around here. That‘s his favorite place for now (right in front of the house). He will be 9 months old in a week and weighs somewhere close to ~170lbs (32 inches tall).
 
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