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Dragon Lover's avatar

I tend to associate the word "lacrosse" with the dogs that killed a lacrosse player in San Francisco back in 2001 or so.

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Two large Presa Canario dogs, also known as Canary Island mastiffs, combined weight about 250 pounds.

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Eric F Coppolino's avatar

the size only matters when they are abused and mean. these dogs were conditioned to be killers. the animals always pay for human error and abuse but at least the perps got long sentences. one is now dead and the other is still inside. both were attorneys. people need to know about this.

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Dragon Lover's avatar

Yea. I'm hip. I was living around there at the time. I had an extremely well-trained service dog-- Treeing Tennessee Brindle cur -- who weighed about 65 pounds. Media had a great time with the story, fomenting fear. I had many, many people getting all weird with me because my dog had a similar coat to the Presa Canario dogs.

What is the 'Notes' that there is a square one can click to have a comment Also shared to Notes?

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Eric F Coppolino's avatar

oh WHAT is it? it posts your comment and my article to your NOTES feed on your personal Substack home page. Look on the front of my page and you will see an option to read my notes and you will see these comments up there.

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Eric F Coppolino's avatar

It should be right below the comment field though I never do this by phone so I don't know that layout. I have met many many thousands of dogs. nearly all of them are very loving creatures. it takes a lot to get a dog to break. but some people specialize in that.

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