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

Does this piss you off?

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The former governor of Alaska, 50, posted a trio of photos to her Facebook page Thursday, which featured her 6-year-old son, Trig, who has Down Syndrome, standing atop the black pooch in an attempt to reach the sink so he could help wash the dishes.
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http://www.people.com/article/sarah-palin-trig-dog-step-stool-photo


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.

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

Great, I can see PETA freaking the **** out about this. Because they need more to go off the deep end about.
 
Re: Sarah Palin Posts Photos of Son Trig Using Family Dog as a Step Stool

The kid has Downs and the dog was in the way; **** happens.


Nor did the dog seem to mind much.



So, I'm indifferent.
 
Re: Sarah Palin Posts Photos of Son Trig Using Family Dog as a Step Stool

Nope. Doesnt make me mad.
 
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OrphanSlug said:
Great, I can see PETA freaking the **** out about this. Because they need more to go off the deep end about.
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Honestly, it was my own reaction to this that made me curious about others. Typically, I'm one to defend Palin more and, as far as I know, the dog wasn't hurt and the kid is cute. At the same time, the kid's not tiny, especially in relation to the size of the dog and I do believe in teaching kids to, well, refrain from stepping on dog's backs.
 
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Does it piss me off? No, not really, but I think it was stupid on her part, and if it were my child, I'd not let him act that way. A kid with Downs Syndrome isn't typically retarded enough not to understand things like this. It certainly isn't anything I consider cute.
 
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I read the article comments on this, and a lot of people were arguing that if the dog was hurt, it would move. I want to punch all those people in the face. The kid could hurt the dog, and it may not be an immediate, obvious injury, but the dog could feel sore later and have a hard time walking. I assume his parents see nothing wrong with him standing on the dog. The more he does it, the more likely it is going to injure the dog and damage it's back and legs.

Also, Trig is growing. He is going to weigh more and get bigger. His parents should teach him to not stand on the dog now and not later.


Add: It's not the dog's responsibility to lash out or teach Trig not to stand on it. It's the parent's responsibility.
 
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If in future he hurts the dog and it bites him, which one will be euthanased?
 
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Manc Skipper said:
If in future he hurts the dog and it bites him, which one will be euthanased?
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neither.
 
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Manc Skipper said:
If in future he hurts the dog and it bites him, which one will be euthanased?
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Ok, you are kind of making a good point... He should be taught to respect animals, because he could get hurt, and that would be messed up.

My sister has dogs and kids. The other day, she freaked out because her five year old pulled one of the dogs by the tail. The dog didn't do anything, but you can't pull dogs by the tails. The wrong dog will turn around and bite somebody for doing that.
 
Re: Sarah Palin Posts Photos of Son Trig Using Family Dog as a Step Stool

ISIS beheading women and children pisses me off.


This barely rises to the level of bored indifference.
 
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It does seem like, as Obama used to say all the time, a teachable moment. Don't freak out on the kid or get mad at him, he meant no harm, just tell him why we don't stand on animals.
 
Re: Sarah Palin Posts Photos of Son Trig Using Family Dog as a Step Stool

It's official: Sarah Palin is the Kim Kardashian of politics.
 
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X Factor said:
It does seem like, as Obama used to say all the time, a teachable moment. Don't freak out on the kid or get mad at him, he meant no harm, just tell him why we don't stand on animals.
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That's just the thing imo- he should already know something like that. I dunno. Maybe he's worse than I realize, but I'm just surprised that he doesn't know any better, and that she thought it was a good idea to post it. Maybe it's just me. :lol:
 
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It doesn't make me mad. In fact, I literally feel nothing reading this. At the same time, I don't think she should allow her son to use an animal as a step stool. That's not cool. Just because dog's are "subordinate" doesn't mean that they should be used in such a manner.
 
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Goshin said:
ISIS beheading women and children pisses me off.


This barely rises to the level of bored indifference.
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It's all good, for real and exactly consistent with what I understand your view on animals to be.
 
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Goshin said:
ISIS beheading women and children pisses me off.


This barely rises to the level of bored indifference.
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I'm at the point where if you showed me a youtube video of Palin running over a dozen girl scouts with a humvee while laughing maniacally, my attention would wander to a cat video link to the right and I'd click that instead.
 
Re: Sarah Palin Posts Photos of Son Trig Using Family Dog as a Step Stool

Doesn't bother me any. Somehow I get the feeling that while Mrs. Palin thought it was cute and took a photo of it (prolly with her phone since I get the feeling she's never without it considering her lifestyle) and then more than likely told Trig that doing such could hurt the dog. Its easy to assume that she didn't, as many here obviously did, but I know that as a parent I've done similar. 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). For example smearing their poop all over the walls or as they got older coloring on the walls. Perhaps minor examples compared to the OP but you get the idea. So I really think that this is much ado about nothing. I mean her other kids don't go around hurting animals so I'm pretty sure that Mrs. Palin does her best at teaching the kids right from wrong.
 
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Holy ****. Look at all the votes, and in such a short time too. Lol.
 
Re: Sarah Palin Posts Photos of Son Trig Using Family Dog as a Step Stool

X Factor said:
It does seem like, as Obama used to say all the time, a teachable moment. Don't freak out on the kid or get mad at him, he meant no harm, just tell him why we don't stand on animals.
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Obviously.
It's no biggie, but I'd lift the boy off and explain he shouldn't do that. Going to get a camera and posting the picture seems like an odd way to handle it.
The boy did learn something.
 
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Not in the least. The only people I could see really getting pissed about that photo are PETA-tard or some die hard Sarah Palin hater. I bet that kid has probably tried to ride the dog like a horse,maybe pulled on it's ear,probably fed it candy and sorts of other things.
 
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lizzie said:
That's just the thing imo- he should already know something like that. I dunno. Maybe he's worse than I realize, but I'm just surprised that he doesn't know any better, and that she thought it was a good idea to post it. Maybe it's just me. :lol:
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He might very well know better. It could be that he forgot to. Kids with Down Syndrome aren't the best at remembering things at times. And considering I don't know of a single NORMAL kid that remembers everything all the time I can imagine a kid with Down Syndrome being far worse. Heck, for the past week all I've been getting out of my daughter lately is "I didn't remember!". Despite the fact that she KNOWS that such a statement is no excuse for doing the same wrong thing.
 
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X Factor said:
It's all good, for real and exactly consistent with what I understand your view on animals to be.
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Yeah, I know I'm not as huggy and fluffy about animals as some. I like them, like 'em a lot in fact, but I don't elevate them on a pedestal and imbue them with superlative traits and consider them sacrosanct.




If it was my kid, I would've just said "don't stand on the dog", possibly accompanied by a smack on the butt if I wasn't promptly obeyed, and otherwise ignored the whole matter. Then again I'm not a celebutician living in a glass house.


I'm just saying that while I don't think kids standing on dogs is a good thing either, it doesn't rise to the level of pissing me off that what ISIS is doing to women and children does. THAT I have a hard time reading about without grabbing my rifle and hopping the next flight to Kurdistan.
 
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My thoughts on Palin's purpose of posting the photo, ether...

1. She has no commonsense and didn't realize it would invoke criticism, and she actually thought it was cute or
2. She isn't that stupid and wanted to stir up some BS drama to get attention


Maybe I could be forgiving if number one is true, because at least she wouldn't knowingly be putting her son in the center of negative attention.


And assuming number one is the truth, how could somebody not know that letting your child stand on a dog would cause some backlash? I understand people make mistakes, but this seems incredibly stupid.
 
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This. :yt
 
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