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Sarah Palin Posts Photos of Son Trig Using Family Dog as a Step Stool[W:122]:

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Re: Sarah Palin Posts Photos of Son Trig Using Family Dog as a Step Stool

jamesrage said:
Are they they ones feigning outrage over the photo like the die-hard Sarah Palin haters are?
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Why on earth would you say feign outrage? I think what she is posting on facebook is outrageous for reasons I mentioned before. Dogs are not stepping stools and even special needs children need to be taught that this is not the thing to do with pets.
 
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Peter King said:
Why on earth would you say feign outrage? I think what she is posting on facebook is outrageous for reasons I mentioned before. Dogs are not stepping stools and even special needs children need to be taught that this is not the thing to do with pets.
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true.. it's not "feigning outrage".. it's called ... "butthurt", I believe.
 
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vesper said:
Palin could post a picture of her coffee pot and someone would find something wrong with it. Maybe even start a thread over it.
That dog would be the first to tell the child if he was in discomfort. Evidently the dog would not get out of the child's way who was determined to help with dishes. I imagine if the dog wasn't laying there, the child would have dragged a chair from the kitchen table to the sink.

I have seen kids do a lot of things to animals that were not especially kind and they learned quickly what is acceptable and what isn't. If at anytime that animal felt discomfort, it would have let the child know.

I've known several dog owners, some pretty big dogs confined to cages for most of their life while the owner is at work. And then again at night. They have to go to the bathroom they have to deficate in their cage if they can't wait for dear master to get home in time to let them out. Cause we can't have dear doggie taking a crap or peeing somewhere in the house. And if they are lucky the master will actually take them for a walk before returning them to the "cage". That's animal abuse in my book.

Then you have those who dress their little pooches up in clothes. It's one thing to put a sweater on them to go outside when it is cold. It is altogether something else to dress them up in costumes on a daily basis. That's animal abuse in my book.

Then you could make the case that cutting the balls off a dog or cat, or spading a female is rather abusive too. ;)
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I am sorry but I think you are wrong on this issue. This is not a coffee pot but an animal which is being used by a child as a stepping stool, something animals are not meant to be used as. And you say the dog would be the first to tell the child if he was in discomfort? Well, usually that would be a bit or growling, something that is very bad with a child that is a special needs child and usually the dog would get the blame.

And what kind of insane statement is that? Obviously the dog would not get out of the way of the child who was determined to help with the dishes? Are you for real? So that means you just step on the dog? What if it had been a cat or another little child who was not getting out of the way? The alternative for not having a stepping stool is not using a dog for a stepping stool.

A child of his age could way as much as about 50 pounds which is a lot of weight if it stands on you (being a dog that might weigh about the same).

Also, this is not a "regular" child because it is a special needs child and he should have been told immediately to get off the dog and that he should never do it, it is not a photo op.
 
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Thrilla said:
true.. it's not "feigning outrage".. it's called ... "butthurt", I believe.
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No, it is honest dislike of what is in all reality inappropriate behavior towards a dog.
 
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Gina said:
This^^^

I'm running for the kid, not the camera.



I worry when I see people allow their kids to treat animals like inanimate objects or like they don't feel pain. There is all kinds of bad that could happen in that situation. The dog could be hurting but not reacting because it's been taught it's not above the child on the pecking order.
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Exactly. I'm watching all the comments about how the dog would move if it was hurt or even suggesting that dogs actually must like to be treated roughly because they either don't react or they'll continue to come around the kid and I wonder if they've ever had a dog. I've had and grown up with dogs that were very expressive, like my little drama queen I have right now - she'll let you know if she's unhappy about something, but I've also had very stoic dogs that just won't express pain, no matter how much it hurts. Dogs are also notoriously forgiving.


If the boy did a flamenco dance while up there, that could cause the dog to react by biting if it's really hurt and in the process of moving to bite or even to get away, the child is going for a tumble, possibly knocking his head or face really hard.

Even if she didn't care about the dog, letting a child stand on an unpredictable and potentially moving object is really dumb. That is a tile floor and his face is over the edge of the counter.

Trig could've been hurt if the dog leg him know.

Oh and does it piss me off? Yeah, kinda though I don't care it's Palin. I would be upset by any idiot parent who let their kid do that to the family dog, thereby putting their child in danger.
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I know this is true. Obviously I'm no Palin basher but given a choice between taking the side of Palin or a dog, I choose the dog.
 
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FreedomFromAll said:
It is obvious that the Palins need a damn stool by the sink. Until then I guess the dog will suffice up until he wont let the kid stand on him.

Perhaps the dog lovers should unite and raise money for a stool for the kid?
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Or, psychiatric help for the Palin family.
 
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apdst said:
Are you kidding? The Libbos can't resist taking shots at her kids, as this thread proves.
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Please, enough of the libbos.
 
The best part of this is that the dog crawled into bed with her son at night. You can do whatever you want to a dog, but when it comes to dogs holding grudges against their owners, they don't, dogs just give unconditional love. At least most of the time.
 
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Gina said:
This^^^

I'm running for the kid, not the camera.



I worry when I see people allow their kids to treat animals like inanimate objects or like they don't feel pain. There is all kinds of bad that could happen in that situation. The dog could be hurting but not reacting because it's been taught it's not above the child on the pecking order. If the boy did a flamenco dance while up there, that could cause the dog to react by biting if it's really hurt and in the process of moving to bite or even to get away, the child is going for a tumble, possibly knocking his head or face really hard.

Even if she didn't care about the dog, letting a child stand on an unpredictable and potentially moving object is really dumb. That is a tile floor and his face is over the edge of the counter.

Trig could've been hurt if the dog leg him know.

Oh and does it piss me off? Yeah, kinda though I don't care it's Palin. I would be upset by any idiot parent who let their kid do that to the family dog, thereby putting their child in danger.
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You made some very good points Gina.
 
Re: Sarah Palin Posts Photos of Son Trig Using Family Dog as a Step Stool

apdst said:
And they're all just as stupid as this, but this will be on the list.

See what I mean?
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Do you think I am making it up that the shortened name for Trichomoniasis is Trig?? I am not. I thought of it the very first time I heard his name.

I am simply being honest about my reaction to a kid's name, and it doesn't make me a bad person. You're such a whiner.

BTW... I dislike to name Braiden or Braden for a boy. It was once a very popular name, and it sounds more like a girl's name. I really dislike the name Braden. Also, Skylar is bad for a boy IMO, but not as bad as Braden.
 
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Reece, Aubrey, Raden, :roll:
 
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SheWolf said:
Do you think I am making it up that the shortened name for Trichomoniasis is Trig?? I am not. I thought of it the very first time I heard his name.

I am simply being honest about my reaction to a kid's name, and it doesn't make me a bad person. You're such a whiner.

BTW... I dislike to name Braiden or Braden for a boy. It was once a very popular name, and it sounds more like a girl's name. I really dislike the name Braden. Also, Skylar is bad for a boy IMO, but not as bad as Braden.
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Tripp Palin.
 
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CanadaJohn said:
You must be so proud, laughing at someone ignorantly calling a young child an STD.
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I am not calling the kid an STD. I said that his name Trig or Trich is short for Trichomoniasis, and that's what his name made me think of the very second I heard it.

I would never bully a child because of it's name.

I am far from the proper person to make fun of another's name. In fact, I started a thread here on DP a few years ago about how much I dislike my own name, and how much I went through in life because of it. For years, I fought with my mom to legally change my entire name, and the only thing that stopped me was her crying and begging me not to do so...

This kid's name make me think of an STD, but it may not make every other person think of an STD. It's like when I met a girl name Derrena, I thought nothing of it, but my other friend said it reminded her of Doritio.

My opinion really doesn't matter. The child's opinion matter's the most, because he will go through life with his name. I would never bully or endlessly make fun of somebody's name. I have gone through that **** too many times in my own life, and that NOT what I am doing now. I was simply just sharing my honest opinion, and I am continuing to do so now, so you can stop trying to exploit the situation.
 
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Kal'Stang said:
My kids have occasionally done something wrong but it was so cute at the time that I just had to get a picture of it and then after I took the picture I admonished them to not do such again (usually explaining why it was a nono).
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So basically, unlike Mrs. Palin, you would have the common sense not to post it on Facebook.
 
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I just saw Gina's thread warning, so I will be staying on topic... discussing Trig's name is probably off topic, right?
 
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Superfly said:
I don't know - the kid looks like he might be heavy enough to hurt the dog. For whatever reason, I still thought he was very small, and I thought it wasn't a big deal. But he's basically standing on the dog's spine.

She should not use it as a photo op. Just take him off the dog and tell him it might hurt the dog to do that, and go get him a stepping stool.
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When I read the story earlier today, I thought pretty much the same thing. Until I saw the photo and realized that Trig has grown a lot and the dog is not actually that big.
 
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SheWolf said:
Do you think I am making it up that the shortened name for Trichomoniasis is Trig?? I am not. I thought of it the very first time I heard his name.

I am simply being honest about my reaction to a kid's name, and it doesn't make me a bad person. You're such a whiner.

BTW... I dislike to name Braiden or Braden for a boy. It was once a very popular name, and it sounds more like a girl's name. I really dislike the name Braden. Also, Skylar is bad for a boy IMO, but not as bad as Braden.
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"Trig" is a Norse word for "truth".

A "wolf" is a bot fly larvae, too. You think I'm making that up? Should we start going on about female bot flies? Hmm?
 
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Middleground said:
So basically, unlike Mrs. Palin, you would have the common sense not to post it on Facebook.
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Sure, but only because I don't post on Facebook. I play some games on it and that's the extent of my FB life. I personally think that its stupid no matter who/what you are to post pretty much anything on FB.
 
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Did anyone read her gibberish response?

Dear PETA,

Chill. At least Trig didn’t eat the dog.

Hey, by the way, remember your “Woman of the Year”, Ellen DeGeneres? Did you get all wee-wee’d up when she posted this sweet picture? conservatives4palin.com Hypocritical, much?

Did you go as crazy when your heroic Man-of-Your-Lifetime, Barack Obama, revealed he actually enjoyed eating dead dog meat?

Aren’t you the double-standard radicals always opposing Alaska’s Iditarod - the Last Great Race honoring dogs who are born to run in wide open spaces, while some of your pets “thrive” in a concrete jungle where they’re allowed outdoors to breathe and pee maybe once a day?

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Aren’t you the same anti-beef screamers blogging hate from your comfy leather office chairs, wrapped in your fashionable leather belts above your kickin’ new leather pumps you bought because your celebrity idols (who sport fur and crocodile purses) grinned in a tabloid wearing the exact same Louboutins exiting sleek cowhide covered limo seats on their way to some liberal fundraiser shindig at some sushi bar that features poor dead smelly roe (that I used to strip from our Bristol Bay-caught fish, and in a Dillingham cannery I packed those castoff fish eggs for you while laughing with co-workers about the suckers paying absurdly high prices to party with the throw away parts of our wild seafood)? I believe you call those discarded funky eggs “caviar”.
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She is a whack-a-doodle
 
Re: Sarah Palin Posts Photos of Son Trig Using Family Dog as a Step Stool

SheWolf said:
It's not the dog's responsibility to teach Trig how to respect it. It's the parent's responsibility.
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I thought she was from the party of personal responsibility?
 
X Factor said:


Sarah Palin Posts Photos of Son Trig Using Family Dog as a Step Stool - Kids & Family Life, Pet News, Sarah Palin : People.com


Pic is at the link (which I'll include). So why put this in Polls? I'm curious if the story, to put it bluntly, pisses you off because I gotta admit, as an animal fan, most especially dogs, it kinda pisses me off. Not at the kid, of course, but I know, if it were me, I'd teach my kid to not stand on the family dog.

Sorry about the weird font and sizing. It did something weird when I copied the quote.

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It's good of sarah palin to let the child grow up instead of throwing him away after using him as an election prop in 2008--tremendously inconsistent w/her character.
 
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