Don't Blame The Dog

[LaraCroft 863]

The problem is that people get a dog without really "knowing dogs", they dont take the time to really understand what owning a dog entails. If the womens reaction was to panic and do nothing, what would have happened if you were of the same nature, who would have sorted it? Rather than just get a dog, I think people really need to think long and hard if they have the time to invest in all aspects of owning a dog, not just feeding it but socialising and training it. The first time I met a Greyhound was a classic example. My neighbours got a dog from the local track and were told to keep the muzzle on in the garden for a day or two so that the local cats knew their was a new boy in town! They didnt so one day the woman next door started screaming, so I rushed out and through the fence saw their new Greyhound running around with my cat in its mouth. She was just screaming and physically paralysed so I ran round and took my cat out of its mouth, obviously dead! The cat was in their garden so one of those things, the thing is she just screamed and did nothing and i was only ten years old!

I "liked" it because of the "not knowing bit" not because your cat died - just wanted to say.

[Huan72 687]

 

The problem is that people get a dog without really "knowing dogs", they dont take the time to really understand what owning a dog entails. If the womens reaction was to panic and do nothing, what would have happened if you were of the same nature, who would have sorted it? Rather than just get a dog, I think people really need to think long and hard if they have the time to invest in all aspects of owning a dog, not just feeding it but socialising and training it. The first time I met a Greyhound was a classic example. My neighbours got a dog from the local track and were told to keep the muzzle on in the garden for a day or two so that the local cats knew their was a new boy in town! They didnt so one day the woman next door started screaming, so I rushed out and through the fence saw their new Greyhound running around with my cat in its mouth. She was just screaming and physically paralysed so I ran round and took my cat out of its mouth, obviously dead! The cat was in their garden so one of those things, the thing is she just screamed and did nothing and i was only ten years old!

I "liked" it because of the "not knowing bit" not because your cat died - just wanted to say.

I knew that, thanks for the like

[bird 10,014]

Dunno about anyone else but I stay as far away as I can from other dogs and their owners, means I have to travel miles or just walk on the roads if I don't have time.

 

same here i try to keep away from other dog walkers, unless i know the owner+ dog.Ive always took my dogs when they were young pups to meet people+ dogs, so i know they will behave when older. Right now my 1x gsd x grey Buck is 7 1/2 month old,he got a great temp loves people+ dogs.But he is getting very strong now just as pup, he will have massive power when mature.So the last thing you want is a dog like him kicking off with another dog when older if a fight started, as i think Buck could do alot of damage very quick . .Thats why like you i will try keep away from most dog walkers if i can .!

[RubyTex 1,957]

Dunno about anyone else but I stay as far away as I can from other dogs and their owners, means I have to travel miles or just walk on the roads if I don't have time.

 

Yeah me too. Nowt but hassle. I'll walk the long way round in order to avoid certain dogs around here.

 

What annoys me is when i'm on the beach, a big feck off beach at that, and people wander on over to you with their dogs as though it's some sort of social gathering...sod off!! It's not that me or the dogs are unsociable, just i've had enough of dogs chasing Ruby and Tex having to go in and clatter them. She's quick but she's only 16kg, so no match for most dogs in defending herself....Tex on the other hand is 25kg, a spaniel battering ram if i ever saw one

[Lab 10,979]

I very rarely walk my dogs in a public place. Canny be arsed with folk who cant control there dogs. Much easier just to walk the other way. I find it amazing with some folk though, the seem to see you as some kind of beacon and head right for you even when your trying to distance yourself. Nothing worse when you here some daft c**t shouting on there dog "Tiddles, tiddles......TIDDLES!!!!"... and the dog has no interest in listening and its heading your way. Sometimes you just have to hope the dog is untrained but hopefully doesnt have a nasty streak....

[paulus 26]

i just stick to private land and carrying a shotgun seems to keep the curious at bay :laugh:

[NEWKID 29,095]

I also tend to walk early morning or late evening/ night and I'm not one for going around the park.. This weekend showed why, a stroll with the family went wrong... I think the thing I couldn't get my head around is once her dog had locked on she was more than clueless, and when I was separating them she was more concerned that her dog was being choked than the fact her dog was biting a lump out of mine... Most of us on here work our dogs so have permission to walk them on, but a lot of your pet dog owners will be walking around the local park with the odd out of control dog running wild..

[RubyTex 1,957]

I very rarely walk my dogs in a public place. Canny be arsed with folk who cant control there dogs. Much easier just to walk the other way. I find it amazing with some folk though, the seem to see you as some kind of beacon and head right for you even when your trying to distance yourself. Nothing worse when you here some daft c**t shouting on there dog "Tiddles, tiddles......TIDDLES!!!!"... and the dog has no interest in listening and its heading your way. Sometimes you just have to hope the dog is untrained but hopefully doesnt have a nasty streak....

 

Well with that ginger bonce of course you're going to be a beacon! Attract them from all over

[Lab 10,979]

 

I very rarely walk my dogs in a public place. Canny be arsed with folk who cant control there dogs. Much easier just to walk the other way. I find it amazing with some folk though, the seem to see you as some kind of beacon and head right for you even when your trying to distance yourself. Nothing worse when you here some daft c**t shouting on there dog "Tiddles, tiddles......TIDDLES!!!!"... and the dog has no interest in listening and its heading your way. Sometimes you just have to hope the dog is untrained but hopefully doesnt have a nasty streak....

 

Well with that ginger bonce of course you're going to be a beacon! Attract them from all over

Now theres a thing...it is usually women........

[Brewman 1,192]

Posh bird sounds more like a pet owner who like the idea of a large traditional breed as opposed to being a dog person.

Silly mare.

[RubyTex 1,957]

I also tend to walk early morning or late evening/ night and I'm not one for going around the park.. This weekend showed why, a stroll with the family went wrong... I think the thing I couldn't get my head around is once her dog had locked on she was more than clueless, and when I was separating them she was more concerned that her dog was being choked than the fact her dog was biting a lump out of mine... Most of us on here work our dogs so have permission to walk them on, but a lot of your pet dog owners will be walking around the local park with the odd out of control dog running wild..

 

Unfortunately for me the footpath out the back of mine is what i use to get the dogs out either down to the field or to the beach, but so does everybody else! That's fine but hardly any of these dogs respond to their owners calls so it usually ends up in the dog running at us, Ruby yelping and Tex kicking off....i never even get an apology really. I'm lucky i've never encountered the Alsatian off the lead, well only once but Ruby barked so much it thought twice and ran off. It's a little b*****d and has torn up a Daschund and a Jack Russell before, the woman who owns it is about 10 stone wet through and when it wants to go she can't hold it back, she gets dragged. Dangerous. The last encounter i had with it was just as i was opening the back gate to go out, i didn't realise it was stood behind it. When the gate opened it launched itself at it and tried to push it open further, luckily i had my body behind it and got it shut. What did the woman say as she walked on by? Nothing. She didn't even respond when i shouted "put that f***ing dog on a f***ing lead ya stupid bint"....you can't educate pork but if it cops one of mine it'll be the last thing it does

[Ratreeper 441]

I'm the opposite to many of you, I like my dog to meet as many others as possible and know how to react if the other dog isn't interested (only with dogs off lead and I live in a small village so I see the same people/dogs all the time). Shit happens, my dog has been snapped at by quite a few terriers owned by decent owners but he knows to just walk away from them, but it could be very different if my dog wasn't such a soft little coward.

 

I don't get annoyed by the odd grumpy dog, but I did get very wound up with this daft old woman with a greyhound who started screaming from about 200 yards away and then released her dog that ran right into mine and nipped it hard (small puncture wound). Once it was away from the daft hysterical woman it was as calm as you like, i just picked up the lead, let them have a sniff and gave her dog back. She said she let go incase he pulled her over, which I can sympathise with as she was quite old but the reality is she shouldn't have a dog she can't control, or should learn to stop winding her dog up as it didn't seem to have a nasty streak it was effectively doing what it was told as far as it was concerned

[Nik_B 3,791]

Problem is my dog is a bit nervy and will react to other dogs with growling and snarling. Then people give me the funny looks but he's on a fecking lead and theirs isn't. I don't think its fair for me to tell him off when he's probably just warning them off.