#Dogs #Behaving Badly Are the #Celebrity Owners Fault

Who me?  I would never do something like that

April 27, 2011  Civility on the Way Out? Add Dogs to That List  By BOB MORRIS

         Summarising this NY TIMES story:  Samantha Ronson, the celebrity D.J. and former girlfriend of Lindsay Lohan, was mortified last year when the news media learned that her bulldog, Cadillac, had attacked and killed a tiny Maltese at her West Hollywood apartment building.                                                                                          Elizabeth Taylor’s dog “treated the floors of friends as fire hydrants.”                                                                                                            Carl Paladino, while campaigning for governor of New York, suffered bad publicity “when his pit bull attacked another dog.”  Paris Hilton’s Tinkerbell “was known to snap and bite”                          

       In the White House, “the pit bull of Theodore Roosevelt was known for ripping the pants off a French ambassador.  Buddy was the Clintons’ cat-attacking Labrador retriever…  Barney, the Scottish terrier of George and Laura Bush, bit a journalist.                                   

     My comment: privileged owners who spend little time controlling their dogs are to blame.

         “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.” 
 Dwight D. Eisenhower