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Q: Why do kids kick my dog?
So I know there is no good answer to this. It happens once or twice per week that some kid basically kicks my dog, maybe not hard, but hard enough. This could be when we are standing waiting for the wife to do some shopping, kids come running up to us screaming at the dog, once they are close they will go foot first. Parents just laugh when you comment on this. I really am amazed of the lack of social skills.
Sadly i have seen this too. Parents 'encouraging' - usually the son - to behave in this 'brave' way with animals and anything smaller than them. This contrasts with parents at home who encourage their children to treat animals well. I have seen dog owners at home allow children come an pat their dog, under supervision of the parents.
Don't put up with this. There is a general misguided perception of "I own everything" around here. If the dog can bark, let it or make it bark. React, not submit.
If it's me it would be a slap to the kid first, and to the parent then if any reaction.
I guess your dog isn't big enough to make them think about it. I'd go crazy if anyone mistreated my dog, which isn't here. I would not put up with that.
I'm surprised at how well most dogs do behave. I see dogs walk calmly without leashes. I saw a huge dog the other day, maybe across between a King Sheppard and a St Barnyard dog, looked like something from a horror movie, I think it was following it's owner. What surprised me was that people weren't running away from it. My dog (Collie) wants attention and play from everyone and they only bad thing thing she does is jump up on people. She'll knock over kids and may scratch. If she's playful she nips at clothing. She ruins more shirts and not just mine.
Chinese are just insensitive to other people, but also very much so to animals, not all Chinese just some.
Agree with andy74rc, if somebody kicked my dog i would kick them in the face. Not much gets to me, but treating animals like that just shows the most inhumane side of people, makes me question whether they're all there in the head.
Because pet ownership is a relatively new thing in modern China (too bourgeois during Mao's time), animals that belong to others are fair game for mistreatment. I feel that a lot has to do with the pent-up frustrations of the average folk. They cannot strike back at authoritarian figures so they take out their frustrations on anyone and anything perceived as lesser than themselves. I take it that your dog is not very large...most Chinese adults are even terrified of large breeds.
Like to see what would happen if you sank your boot up the little pricks ass
Man, that's weird. Kicking dogs? (Particularly pure breds on a leash.) I've seen it in other (usually third world) countries, usually involving strays, but not where I live in Qingdao. Seems Qingdaoren respect their dogs a bit more than they might respect other animate beings.
No one has ever kicked or tried to kick my dog, Butch, when we're out on peepee or poopoo patrol. Butch is a Rottweiler. He'd sort out a misplaced or mistimed foot in an instant and the perpetrator would live to regret the action.
Now, people kicking other people: I see that all the time. Brutish behaviour not confined to China, but found everywhere in the world.
Ahhh. The human condition. Don't you just love it?
Scandinavian:
I am trying to tell the wife we need a German Shepard as sidekick to the current dog as the current dog is pretty tiny. I'd teach a German Shepard to bark on command, the command would be "laowei" because let's face it, I hear that word every single time people pass me on the street (with an odd expectation of today when someone said "Hey Man" and then tried to give me a flyer for a gym membership)
They want to tenderize the flesh! It might disappear soon and be in their next hotpot!
andy74rc:
You joke but 4 years ago my wife got her dog (kinda of Golden Retriever) stolen from the vet shop..
Chinese culture teaches and encourages cowardice ("face") . And also it is a tool used to keep the population in check. When they are taught about their heroes the lesson is "heroes " end up dead.
And we all know cowards are bullies. When do you as a foreigner get harassed the most, when they are in a large group. They kick small animals because they are not afraid of them.
Revenge Hulk here. Sorry if this sounds too extreme. If I saw a kid kick my dog in China, I would kick his parents in front of him.
They do it because they're cowards, and animals are easy targets.
Ah, the natural high of being a bully.
They are just getting their kids in training for when they are older and they bully their staff.
Wow!!! I have a 40 KG Golden Retriever. Most Chinese are terrified of him although he is quite gentle. I have had people cross the street to avoid him (maybe it's me lol). I often joke that Chinese are afraid of the wrong things.
They will part like the red sea for my dog, but dare me to hit them with my car.
Look how "adults" behave, then you'll get an idea of it
