cleo said...

cleo at 03:59 PM JST - 23rd June

sarge - According to Wikipedia, "The Tosa is loyal to his master."

spudman - wikipedia needs an update, please?

Every dog is loyal to his master, trouble is too many dogs don't have masters. You don't become a dog's master just by feeding it, and certainly not by shutting it…

Posted in Town official killed by his dog at 03:59 PM JST - 23rd June
cleo at 03:56 PM JST - 23rd June

grab both hind legs a little upwards and away as it cannot attack you. Not sure what to do next...

Err...don't let go?

:-)

Posted in Town official killed by his dog at 03:56 PM JST - 23rd June
cleo at 03:54 PM JST - 23rd June

timorborder -

I have to agree. When a breed info site qualifies its description with With proper training and control,.... I tend to translate that as 'don't bother'. I suppose it would be a 'good guard dog' in the sense that burglars will go elsewhere rather than face a big,…

Posted in Town official killed by his dog at 03:54 PM JST - 23rd June
cleo at 03:38 PM JST - 23rd June

I think it says a lot more about the owner when he's attacked by his own dog

Virtually everything a dog does says more about its owner.

There are no bad dogs, only bad (or inept) owners.

Posted in Town official killed by his dog at 03:38 PM JST - 23rd June
cleo at 03:27 PM JST - 23rd June

There are also idiots who think that cruelty to dogs will make them more aggressive.

Maybe Mr. Naganuma had no intention of making his dog aggressive and maybe he didn't think it amounted to cruelty, but keeping a large dog locked up in a 'cage' strikes me as a quick…

Posted in Town official killed by his dog at 03:27 PM JST - 23rd June
cleo at 09:42 AM JST - 23rd June

The authorities cleared the guys who chose to send the meat home.

Third cause for indignation.

Posted in Greenpeace defends 2 activists nabbed for alleged theft at 09:42 AM JST - 23rd June
cleo at 12:32 PM JST - 22nd June

So they're just going to stop calling a spade a scientific excavation systematic investigation implement, and call it a shovel.

Smithy has it; if Japan gets 'progress' it will do what it wants, and if it doesn't get 'progress' it will still do what it wants.

Way to go and…

Posted in Japan may resume commercial whaling if IWC talks do not progress at 12:32 PM JST - 22nd June
cleo at 02:35 AM JST - 22nd June

Are you in favor of the death penalty?

Of course not.

Whether multi-murderers and creeps like Kato and Miyazaki 'deserve' to die or not is totally beside the point. We're all going to die, whether we 'deserve' it or not. Decent, law-abiding people do not deserve to die with the…

Posted in Are you in favor of the death penalty? at 02:35 AM JST - 22nd June
cleo at 02:30 AM JST - 22nd June

kinniku -

The Minister of Justice, moron or not, cannot decide to not authorise a lawfully court decided death penalty sentence without very specific and legal reasons.

Nevertheless it has been done in the past by less moronic, less bloodthirsty Ministers than Hatoyama. Between 1989 and 1993 there was an…

Posted in Justice chief protests being called 'specter of death' in newspaper column at 02:30 AM JST - 22nd June
cleo at 01:01 PM JST - 21st June

Pukey -

Please show me where I have expressed 'dislike towards gays and their legal rights'.

Just look at the people out having coffee, playing tennis, etc during the weekday afternoons - lots of middle aged women, many probably not having to look after children, but just spending their husbands'…

Posted in What are your views on same-sex marriages? at 01:01 PM JST - 21st June