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People with threatening dogs are people who want to use dogs for attacks and
physical violence (that is their logical "progression" ).

Through their threats and harassment they show that they are dangerous. They
are reminders of the Michael Vick case and the Diane Whipple case (the lady
in San Francisco who was killed by her neighbor's vicious dogs. The
dog-owners went to prison). Neighbors are not only threatened and harassed,
their lives are in danger around such sociopathic misanthropes.

A victim of persecution via dogs stated: "When we (the neighbors) compare
notes in the morning, we've all had the same problems," Landry said. "I don't
think it's a dog problem. It's an owner problem."

Some people are so vile and/or ignorant that they will not take the simple
short measure of teaching their dogs not to bark.

They become enraged if someone tells them that their dog barks and asks them
to train it to stop. It's the same reaction as telling someone that their
child misbehaves because they are a lousy parent. It's not rational,
although it explains much about those many dog-owners who have a youth
history of drug use and abuse with felony convictions and probation. In
other words, they WERE misbehaving youths with lousy parents. Now they are
sociopaths.

It is unfortunate that some public officials have the mis-impression that
dogs should be allowed to bark, and even suggest "schedules" as a resolution
between victims and the sociopaths who own dogs. It is wrong to coerce
victims into accepting a schedule for daily threats and harassment.

Sociopaths who want a daily schedule for their dogs to bark reveal their
sociopathic goals: they want their dogs for harassment. They could leave
their dogs out at any time and all the time if they would simply teach the
dogs to stop barking. They prefer to abuse their dogs and maintain the bad
behavior. Again, they are dog-haters who hate their own dogs, at least in
that sense.

If their own teenage son ran up and down the property line shouting threats
of violence at the neighbors, they would take no action if they believed
they would suffer no response. Indeed the behavior of some dog owners is
worse than if they took no action; some of them provoke their teenagers to
run up and down the property line shouting threats. The dog-owners would do
it themselves if they thought they would suffer no response.

There is no relevant difference between the dogs and their sons. They would
say "Oh my son likes to do that. For him its normal. I tried, but I can't
get him to stop. Just ignore him." The dog-owner would say that about
themselves: "Oh we like to do run up and down the property line shouting
threats of violence at you. For us its normal behavior. We tried to stop,
but we can't. Just ignore us (if you can, ha, ha)." (Here one begins to see
the value of shock collars... if the dog-owner wore it and the neighbor had
the remote control. Then the persecutor would find the wherewithal to stop
the threats from the dog/son/himself) .

Sociopathic dog-owners use dogs for the same end, because they believe that
no one will stop it.

The use of barking dogs for psychological torture is known by military and
law enforcement globally. Do a web search for pictures of dogs used at Abu
Ghraib.

Sociopaths are notorious for using dogs in the concentration camps and
ghettos of the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): the
National Socialist German Workers Party (with Adolf Hilter and ~20 million
people slaughtered) ; the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (V. I.
Lenin and Joseph Stalin and ~60 million slaughtered) ; and the Peoples'
Republic of China (Chairman Mao and ~50 million slaughtered) .

Some modern victims of that behavior literally cannot crack their doors to
step out without a barrage of violent threats from dogs that want to attack
them. They become prisoners in their own homes as if it were a
concentration camp.