All of you people saying the dogs owners deserve fines and jail time should be ashamed of yourselves. You don't know that the dog was abused. We DO know that the dog had JUST escaped from their garage. We DO know that they VOLUNTARILY took the dog in. There are a lot of reasons the dog was this aggressive.

your friend should be in jail

Just so happens that I work for a branch of the county that also deals with animal control. It's unfortunate that these sort of things happen, but it sounds like they impounded the dog and he was aggressive while in custody. He would try to attack the staff even when he was being fed. I don't know that I can find one…

I was going to bring up this point. I used to work with a dog trainer who specialized in aggression. Of course there is the circumstantial/nurture/bad training component (e.g., a dog gets attacked and becomes dog aggressive, or guard dog training gone wrong, or dog fighting) but there are definitely cases where the…

I feel bad that the dog was so... Whatever. Abused, untrained, neglected, whatever.. That he was so aggressive that he continued to attack even those who were trying to help him.

Every now and again you will get a dog that just has aggression issues. Ex-girlfriend of mine, her family had a chocolate lab that was just really aggressive, especially to kids and strangers.

I have to chime in because I own a dog with aggression issues- she was abused and possibly used in dog fighting. I adopted her, discovered her aggressive tendencies months later, have consulted multiple trainers and spent thousands on "rehabilitation." I decided to keep her anyway, as I am able to manage her, and am…

Agreed. Waiting for all the pitbull-hating trolls to hit the threads...

My dog is never off a leash outside the house, why would he be?

A dog's life is not more important than the safety of the humans it encounters.

Personally, I don't have a problem with diets, but I do have a problem with diet culture. I am enormously bothered by the fact that I can't sit around talking with a group of women without some discussion of what diet everyone's doing. It's toxic, and creates an atmosphere where I'm supposed to bond with other women…

I'll trade you. Cottage cheese for beets.

Fuck cottage cheese. Lemon out.

OK, here's how it works:

Sometimes I think people who go on and on about how amazing their diet is are basically suffering from stockholm syndrome. Pretend to love the diet so you don't have to fear it. Eventually you just plain love the diet. I know this is what I went through when I hardcore dieted for 2 years before my wedding. I had to…

Ugh, can I complain? So I love most vegetables and I'm a pretty solid cook (ex-pro, now in grad school.) More often than not lately, I fall closer to the J.Law-skinny-girl-eats-the-pizza end of the spectrum, and I have nothing to blame for that aside from poor organizational skills and well, grad school. I hate it. I…

I sympathize. I don't struggle with IBS, but I just feel better when I eat healthy foods. And I don't want to feel lethargic and shitty mid-afternoon over a stale convenience store donut.

I've gotten a lot of that if I confess that I'm going low carb to lose weight. It's not something I volunteer, but if someone asks why I'm suddenly subsisting on salads, I tell the truth, in a single sentence statement. I don't understand why shoving food at me is an appropriate response. What's that about?

You know, I'd never give a shit again about people endlessly talking and posting about their diets if they would just do one thing. For fucks sake, please stop saying "yummy". Do you want to instagram a pic of your dinner of a blurp of runny peanut butter on three shriveled goji berries? Go ahead, knock yourself out.…

The Internet has talked: Quit with the horse crap. Your eating methodology is not fun. You didn't consume that donut you postured with on Instagram. We know. . . http://bit.ly/1hkHHfl