"I was six years old and an only child, and I yearned to have a dog for a pet. My parents got me a cocker spaniel. I was happy beyond words. I named the dog Pooch, but as it turned out, I should have called him Lout, Thug, or Stinker. That dog was perfectly awful-vicious, disobedient, and pathologically territorial-and it refused to be housebroken. I learned my lesson the hard way: Cocker spaniels make dreadful pets. Don't even think about getting one." Identify the fallacy that applies to this example.
A. The fallacy of false alternatives
B. The fallacy of hasty generalization
C. The questionable cause fallacy
D. The fallacy of appeal to ignorance
E. None of the answers are correct
Answer: B
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