07-20-2022, 11:25 AM
It may not be a matter of taste, but on some other website that I frequent, someone related that Ann Rule was astonished that when she was on the same crisis-center line with Ted Bundy, she brought her dog in one day and it absolutely hated Bundy. The dog could sense sociopathy in him. Bundy was already raping, murdering, stealing, and burglarizing, the sorts of things that good people just do not do.
I suggested that dogs are still wolves, and the most difficult task for a wolf is deciding what wolf to let into the pack and which one not to. Wolf packs and human families have similar structures, which may explain why wolves found us. Solitary predators such as bears and most cat species don't have that problem (lions do). I'm not going into the details on what criteria make a strange wolf a desirable addition to the pack and not a wolf to avoid. What wolves can do with fellow wolves so can dogs -- with us. The dog got plenty of signals that Ted Bundy was a deceitful, unreliable, and dangerous person. The dog was basically telling its owner Ann Rule to run for her life before Bundy could do very bad things to her!
Is it simply abnormal behavior? No. I am on the autistic spectrum, and dogs see right through me and find me harmless. OK, I know the rules with dogs, but those come naturally. I have been bitten only once in my 66 years, and that was by a puppy who didn't know what he was doing. Then again, I don't do crime. Note well that, speaking of crime, the scariest unit that many criminals can face is the K-9 unit. A corrections officer told me that burglars (who are often rapists or pedophiles as well as thieves) dread the K-9 unit because the dog can figure them out.
Back to the person in the title of this thread: Donald Trump has never gotten along with dogs, which says much about his character. Dogs are either your best friend or a nightmare -- the Other Big Cat. Trump is a cruel, deceitful person, perhaps far from as hideous as the late and unlamented Ted Bundy. Dogs can apparently see through him.
A dog that I knew well (it belonged to my brother's girlfriend) got along well enough with me and with cats. It went out of its way to attack some man hiding behind some bushes. Mugger? Rapist? That fellow did not report the incident to the police or to Animal Control. I wonder why!
(OK, Adolf Hitler had a dog Blondi whom he even gave the dubious honor of going to the bunker with him, That dog had been socialized by the SS, a group full of sociopathic characters who trained dogs to, among other things, attack inmates in the camps. So you can just imagine what sort of dog would have fit the Fuhrer. Hitler eventually tested a cyanide pill on him a few minutes before offing himself.
I suggested that dogs are still wolves, and the most difficult task for a wolf is deciding what wolf to let into the pack and which one not to. Wolf packs and human families have similar structures, which may explain why wolves found us. Solitary predators such as bears and most cat species don't have that problem (lions do). I'm not going into the details on what criteria make a strange wolf a desirable addition to the pack and not a wolf to avoid. What wolves can do with fellow wolves so can dogs -- with us. The dog got plenty of signals that Ted Bundy was a deceitful, unreliable, and dangerous person. The dog was basically telling its owner Ann Rule to run for her life before Bundy could do very bad things to her!
Is it simply abnormal behavior? No. I am on the autistic spectrum, and dogs see right through me and find me harmless. OK, I know the rules with dogs, but those come naturally. I have been bitten only once in my 66 years, and that was by a puppy who didn't know what he was doing. Then again, I don't do crime. Note well that, speaking of crime, the scariest unit that many criminals can face is the K-9 unit. A corrections officer told me that burglars (who are often rapists or pedophiles as well as thieves) dread the K-9 unit because the dog can figure them out.
Back to the person in the title of this thread: Donald Trump has never gotten along with dogs, which says much about his character. Dogs are either your best friend or a nightmare -- the Other Big Cat. Trump is a cruel, deceitful person, perhaps far from as hideous as the late and unlamented Ted Bundy. Dogs can apparently see through him.
A dog that I knew well (it belonged to my brother's girlfriend) got along well enough with me and with cats. It went out of its way to attack some man hiding behind some bushes. Mugger? Rapist? That fellow did not report the incident to the police or to Animal Control. I wonder why!
(OK, Adolf Hitler had a dog Blondi whom he even gave the dubious honor of going to the bunker with him, That dog had been socialized by the SS, a group full of sociopathic characters who trained dogs to, among other things, attack inmates in the camps. So you can just imagine what sort of dog would have fit the Fuhrer. Hitler eventually tested a cyanide pill on him a few minutes before offing himself.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.