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People and their pets are crazy sometimes! That sounds scare me so much with the pitbull.
I 100% AGREE!
My dog was bit by another dog .. the owner didnt even know and when we told her all she did was tell her 10 year old son "the dog got out get him"!!!
We showed her our leash and asked her if she had ever heard or seen one!!
@justlikeheaven- lol awesome about the leash.
It was so scary! (the pitbull, not the poodle). I mean as I was walking away all I kept thinking was... what if the dog IS mean? What if she lost her grip and it came after stew? What should I do? Let his leash go and hope he runs faster? Pick him up and try to keep him safe (he's 30 pounds and very pick-upable).. but then the pitbull is coming after ME!
It doesn't help that I have a client who was seriously injured trying to save her dog from another dog attacking it ON HER PROPERTY (and she was only saved by a neighbor who beat the offending dog off with a shovel or something). Ugh. I'm really really not for breed specific legislation, because I don't believe any dogs are inherently bad, but I kind of think that when your dog attacks someone there should be SERIOUS consequences, so maybe people would take training a bit more seriously.
I mean a dog is kind of like a gun. If treated responsible its perfectly safe, but if neglected it can be really dangerous. Shouldn't someone be held accountable?
My cute little neighbors have two super huge scary pitbulls that are always in the backyard. They never walk them and the backyard if full of poop, I am not exagerating COVERED in poop year round in the winter it freezes and in the summer it THAWS and smells like death! Anyway theres only one of those short metal fences keeping them in the backyard and when I walk from the garage to the front door or vice-versa those dogs bark and jump and make me have a heart attsck everytime! I am so scared they will just jump over one day! I am so tempted to call animal services on them, but they are such a cute couple and had like 3 babies in a row so I get that they are probably overwhelmed but still!! haha this turned into a mini rant of my own.
This is my biggest pet peeve (no pun intended). I always am careful with my dogs because I don't want people to have to deal with them and cause a bad name for their respective breeds. Also, it's very embarrassing. Of course I have a strict "I will kick your dog in the face if it's going to try to attack my dogs" policy. Or if it's going to attack me. For probably 8 months every time I'd walk any of my dogs past a certain house, their small dog would run out and bite my dogs ankles. To the point at which they would bleed sometimes. Finally I just grabbed the dog and punished it as if it was mine and it stopped doing it. Before that they would occassionally walk over and pick up the dog and apologize and not even punish the dog. Sometimes I just don't know what is going through people's minds.
A few people in my neighborhood walk their dogs without a leash and while the dogs are clearly trained and I've never seen any incidents, it still really pisses me off. The world is unpredictable, you know? You never know what could happen. Just put a friggin leash on your dog when you're in a public area (i.e. not in a fenced in yard, fenced dog park, etc.)
@jennychicago- ugh that actually annoys me more. Like wow i have babies now so i'm going to neglect my animals?! dogs are not meant to be shoved outside to live without interaction their whole lives. It sounds like they made a bad choice getting dogs they don't have time for.
@toffee- i'm with you. unfortunately i was wearing flip flops so kicking... prob not so effective. But i would definitely not hesitate to do something like that to protect myself or my pup.
I'm so with you Corgi!!! I have two cavalier king charles spaniels and though they are not always the most obediant dogs, I pay attention to make sure they behave. Some people are so annoying and give dog owners a bad name. My pet peeve is all the dog poop left on sidewalks, grassy area, the park, etc. In the city it's like landmines on the sidewalk.....and even worse when it rains. It's like people....PICK UP YOUR POOP!!!!
@gvsusara- oh i totally agree. you buy those little things for the leash that keeps all the bags right there... i mean really why would you NOT do it??? ugh@ people
I have actually stopped going to off-leash areas at all - I have a big black dog, and other dogs have gone after him so many times it isn't even funny. He has bled, gotten stitches and an infection, and have clumps of hair pulled out by other peoples untrained dogs. The worst part is that they think it is funny when their little shit of a dog goes after my 140 pound dog. No, it isn't funny, it is aggressive behaviour.
I think that all communities should pass legislation like mine recently did. If you are caught walking a dog and can't show the bylaw officer a big to pick up your dogs poo you get fined on the spot (I think the fine is around $100). They found it is too difficult to catch people not picking it up, and I know that having a bag won't make them pick it up - but you can be sure if their dog poops and they don't have a big they won't be picking it up.
The other thing is that if your dog attacks someone, you might have to put it to sleep...all because of bad training. Now, whose fault is that? The dog's fault or the human's fault??? Geez.
I'm with ya. I've made a mistake getting an animal I shouldn't have had (only for a couple days) and learned my lesson... I reeeeeally want a puppy/dog but we're waiting til we're ready! So I get that impulse to get a dog, I love dogs. But it's just not fair to the dog & if you love dogs you don't do that. Simple stuff.
On a sidenote, for future reference, what is the deal with the retractable lead?? Is it bad?
CorgiTales, everything you said in your post is EXACTLY what frustrates me about so many dog owners!
And one of my biggest pet peeves is when people have tiny dogs like poodles, yorkies and chihuahuas and don't train them. Just because they are small and you can carry them DOES NOT mean you shouldn't train them to be well behaved!
About a month ago, a man was walking a mastiff/pitbull mix through an off-leash area, and when it saw my pup, he lunged! The man had to jump on top of his dog, and completely pinned him to the ground until I could get Darwin away. If your dog is very aggressive, stay away from off-leash areas! What if he had gotten away from his owner? And I mean any aggressive dogs. I don't care if you have a pit bull, lab, or poodle. If they are dog aggressive, DON'T take them to a dog park or off-leash area.
jslsbride: My problem with retractable leashes is as follows.
-It is a good idea to train your dog to walk next to you in the heel position. Retractable leads let your dog walk way out in front of you, and you have little to no control over your dog when they are walking ahead of you.
-It is hard to leash train a dog when you are using a retractable leash. They extend, so if the dog pulls, it can move forward, therefore rewarding the pulling behavior. It is good to train your dog NOT to pull on his/her leash.
-I am not convinced that a retractable leash is sturdy enough to prevent a large dog from breaking free.
my husband and i are constantly on about this! honestly - it's NOT the dog's fault - it's the OWNER!!!!
Even the more "agressive-type dogs" such as PITs can be tame and trained as long as their owner knows what they are doing. I have nothing against anyone raising more agressive-breed dogs - just make sure you know how to handle them and DON'T let them loose!
there's always stories on the news about agressive dogs who have to be put down because of attacks...well if the owner knew what they were doing in the first place, it wouldn't have attacked!
honestly some people should NOT be allowed to own dogs - of any breed - unless going through extensive background search and should need a license! (sorry but it's a peeve of mine...)
my husband and i are constantly on about this! honestly - it's NOT the dog's fault - it's the OWNER!!!!
Even the more "agressive-type dogs" such as PITs can be tame and trained as long as their owner knows what they are doing. I have nothing against anyone raising more agressive-breed dogs - just make sure you know how to handle them and DON'T let them loose!
there's always stories on the news about agressive dogs who have to be put down because of attacks...well if the owner knew what they were doing in the first place, it wouldn't have attacked!
honestly some people should NOT be allowed to own dogs - of any breed - unless going through extensive background search and should need a license! (sorry but it's a peeve of mine...)
Oh my gosh! I have had so many bad experiences with other people's dogs! And I LOVE dogs! My german shorthair and I are from out west, where we hiked and ran every day- she would run free for two hours in the mountains. Then we moved to a city in the midwest. While my dog is innocently running, minding her own business and pointing birds, these dog-park people's dogs will come and attack her! It is so awful. And, no matter how much control over your dog you have, you can't do anything about anyone else's. I wonder what it will be like when I have kids...
Unfortunately, you don't have to pass any tests to own a dog (or have kids for that matter), much to the detriment of some poor animals (and kids o.O).
@mskalinin- You took the thoughts right out of my head.
I hate people who don't train their dogs. It's rude, its irresponsible and the owner should have consequences if a dogs behavior is out of control.
When I was little (like, 3), our neighbors had an Akita. My mom told me that one day it attacked me. We were coming home and she parked the car in trhe garage with the door still open, when she turned around to get some bags out of the car, the dog came running into our garage and pinned me in a corner. She said it was growling and snarling at me like it was going to seriously hurt me. She whacked it with a broom that was sitting by the wall and it ran off. It got put down shortly after because it ripped our mailman's arm open, he got something like 15 stitches.
Oh my gosh I have to send this post to my mom. In the last two weeks, she and our dog have been chased by a pitbull, encountered a coyote and had a run in with a rottweiler. The owner of the pitbull was incredibly irresponsible and seriously yelled at my mom for telling her to get the pitbull on the leash!
Obviously, not much can be done about a coyote but still, YIKES!
My mom and I were walking around the neighborhood when the rottweiler ran out at us. The owner literally said "I didn't know you were out here." Apparently we need to call the neighbors any time we fancy a walk? :-P
I completely understand that people can get defensive about their dogs but they need to be responsible!
PS @corgitales, I'm so jealous. FI and I are dying to get a corgi once we move in together!!
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As though you couldn't tell it was a rant from the allcaps.. haha.
Okay so I live in a pretty nice development with sidewalks and a park in the middle that has stuff like ponds and a playground and a couple of picnic areas. And I take my dog for a walk to and through the park every afternoon. And I've just got to say...... wtf people?!
First, we're walking through the park and Stew (my corgi) does his business, which I put in a bag, and head over to walk through the picnic area to get to a trash can to toss the bag in. As I enter it I can see there is a group of people at the picnic table kind of all spread out so I couldn't get around them, and I hear a dog growling. So I pull stew into heel and stop for a second to see whats going on and see they have a BIG pitbull on a leash and a tiny baby pitbull sitting on the picnic table. Well the dog is growling and starts barking and pulling on his lead. And the lady who has him has ZERO control over him and is clearly pulling as hard as she can to keep him close to her while he DRAGS her towards us. And I'm looking around and everyone else (presumably her family) are cracking up. Like zomg so funny the dog is going to eat another dog.
So I turn around and find another trash can, clearly.
Then not 5 minutes later I'm walking down the sidewalk and there is a lady with a tiny little teacup poodle on a retractable lead (dont get me started on those) that is crossing the path while she is paying 0 attention to the dog, watching her kid on the playground. So we go off the path and around the dog, but not too far away bc Stew is totally uninterested and my god, its a 2 pound poodle that wasn't doing anything. Yea. Well we get to passing the dog and it runs at Stew and attacks him! (apparently had more leway on his retractable than i thought). Now, its a 2 pound dog so he wasn't hurt. I just yanked him away from the dog and he was fine. But the woman turns around when she hears the snarling and yipping from her dog and says "oh" then turns back around. UMMMM
Seriously. What is wrong with people. To the people with the pitbull: If you are going to get a big-ass dog with the POTENTIAL to cause serious harm (not saying pitbulls are by nature bad, i'm saying any big powerful dog). F'ing train them! And certainly don't get one (or 2) if you're not strong enough to keep them in check.
And to the poodle lady, I don't care if your dog is only 2 pounds. It's still rude to let him attack other dogs. What if he attacked a baby? What if he'd gotten stew's eye? I mean for godsake lets use common sense here.
Checklist for owning a dog:
1) researching to find a breed appropriate for your lifestyle
2) financial ability to keep the dog vetted, healthy, and TRAINED
3) time and interest in actually training the dog and making it a member of the family
If you don't have all three, Don't get a dog!!
argh. /rant.