I saw today an example of a person hating dogs that moved me to wish violence upon a woman.

BG were in a pub and the landlady has a wholly adorable boxer (mostly red) that is regrettably deaf - but has not an ounce of vice in it.

Obviously the dog is used to pub customers feeding it crisps and so on.

It was "working the room" (for this purpose, and indeed much to the delight of most customers who were making a fuss of it) and approached the woman in question. She reached for her small handbag - an almost dead ringer for a crisp packet - and the dog put its head forward expecting a treat. She started yelling and violently pushing the dog away and hit it on the head (fortunately not hard) twice.

The look in the dog's eyes was simply tragic.