Janice Dean Instagram – I’m old enough to remember when Mitt Romney admitted he strapped his family dog to the top of his car for 12 hours, and it disgusted me. Today I read the passage from her book about killing her family dog. It brought tears to my eyes. Truly awful. By all means, go find the story and read it yourself. It’s all over the place. I read this quote from Dan Lussen, a professional hunting dog trainer says that a 14-month-old dog is a “baby that doesn’t know any better.”  “To me, it’s a lack of guidance by the owner, or training by the owner, or discipline of the owner,” he says, explaining that young bird-hunting dogs in training often go through a slow process of introduction to dead fowl before even being around gunshots. “There’s a lot of steps that you take before you take it to a field and shoot birds over it. And then there’s obedience training. Does the dog know how to come when it’s called? Does the dog know how to sit and wait?”