[Soolfelpecelf]

People have forgotten what a dog is. They treat them as their own child and cuddle them till they puke.

I am getting away from what you are looking for and going to take this statement a little further....

"People have forgotten what dog is"...absolutely true, and the way I see it after a few decades of observing dogs and people, I believe the "citification" of dogs is the main problem and really, one can only go so far in getting back to what a dog truly is as long as this phenomenon goes on -- and it will.

Too much confinement, too little room to run and play away from any kind of tethering/leashing; and isolation from other dogs (social isolation) lead to problems that just aren't going to be fixed in any meaningful way. Dogs have to adapt to this life of confinement and isolation -- that's just the way it is and why so many breeds are problematic in a lot of today's lifestyles and why in general we will continue to have problems that can't be "fixed". People think they have a "right" to a dog, no matter how artificial a life the dog has to lead.

Carla