Want a good job? Get rid of your dog team

Dogs are dogs, and are considered to be man’s best friends.

But we must decide now and to make a final decision. A dog can be your best friend, but must be controlled, because it is an animal, and dangerous to others. When my oldest son was about eight years old and was playing outside as usual, a vicious dog attacked him. That was about 1968.

It is not a pretty sight to see your loved one attacked by your neighbour’s dog and you have to be careful not to be attacked too when you have to rescue your loved one. His head was badly ripped like a piece of cardboard paper. Some people use their dogs as guard dogs, which is a wrong thing to do today.

This shows some people have no mercy for their fellow men. If a dog is a killer, it interprets who the real master is.

Secondly, if we dearly love our spouses, and our children we should be hunting for permanant jobs seriously and not just looking after our dogs. It is good to have dogs, but is it more important to sit around and beg for food for our family and for our dogs?

I think I would look for a permanent job instead. Sometime in the future, there would be some very high paying jobs coming up. Stop whining, start working, do less hunting and fishing and stick to your job.

I had my own dogs before. One was a pet at times, and I also had dog teams for few years, and not long enough. I loved them as I should, but I had to decide what was best for my family and my job.

I cried when I first shot a dog at the fishing camp, because it bit one of my nephews. It was not easy. Back in 1968, my best dog was shot by the special constable just because it was loose, a very pretty dog and very friendly. It had to be shot for no good reason at all. In fact it tried to come home even though it was already wounded and dying. It was not a pretty sight to look at, my own dog trying to come home while dying.

Once I had a half-wolf and half-husky dog. One time it got lose and we were on our way to go to church and it gently bit my arm by surpise just to let me know that he was lose. The second time he got lose, he ran over to someone walking by and gently bit that person by the arm, so I had to make decision to get rid of him even though I hated to lose that beautiful grey dog.

I had to make a very emotional and a very important decision — either my dog or my fellow man’s own lives. So I got rid of my own best dog.

When you want to get a good job, you should not have anything hindering your very important job. Stick to your job. I love to hunt, and love to go fishing. But in the future, it will be very important to get a job for your own good and for your family,even if it mean less hunting.

I know it is not a easy thing to get rid of your dog or dogs. But dogs cost alot of money and it is not a pretty sight to clean up all those droppings, and it is not a good smell in the warm weather.

Communities are growing, so are the dogs roaming, barking, mating, poaching, dirtying our backyards, and mostly, you have to hunt for them, feed them, water them, and pet them which most of us don’t have time for anymore.

I have been reminded through our local radio not to talk about dogs, but we are now living in the settlements, in modern days with jobs, whether it be adminstration, or high tech, or even janitorial work.

Some of us are not able to feed our own families. Why should we beg for our pets too? Get rid of some of your things, such as your pet dogs that are just sitting around by someone’s property or the hamlet beach — less dogs, less worries, and less work for nothing.

Let the rich people worry about extra things to do. Fewer pets mean less poverty too. I hope that you will be convinced and take my advice. I went through it. I had that very experience. So take my advice very seriously.

William Noah
Baker Lake