Attacks on Posties

My winnie hates the postman I've told them not to enter so they just put stuff over the gate, tbh my dogs are rarely out loose on there own and I do have a rough idea what time to expect them so try to make sure they are in.

I very much doubt she would bite but she barks alot and its just not nice for anyone to have to put up with, I've tried to stop her barking and it's the one thing I have not been able to completely stop I can distract most of the time
 
I keep my postman/woman safe as well as delivery drivers by having my post delivered to a designated place outwith my (6ft) fenced garden area. If I’m in I also bring my dogs inside when they deliver so they don’t feel unnerved or uncomfortable. While I allow a few warning barks I don’t allow them to continue on unnecessarily.
 
Whilst there is absolutely no need for any postie or delivery driver to come into contact with our 12" tall JRT, due to us routinely padlocking our 4' tall entrance gates and having both a post box and a doorbell outside the gates, just why do some delivery drivers think it a good idea to reach right over the gate to fondle her ears 😳?

Do they think that they are some sort of dog whisperer or something?

She does bark but is not human aggressive at all, but sticking your hand into someone else's garden to stroke a dog unasked is asking for trouble ☹️.
 
When we were little our dog, Manchester terrier type, bit the postman. He was teasing him with the post, pushing it through then pulling it back. Dog got his fingers. He admitted it was his fault but dad had the dog put down anyway. He had growled at mum once or twice so I suppose dad thought it wasn't worth the risk of keeping him.
Many years later after dad had died, mum had a little terrier, Lakeland possibly, and she had a letter from the GPO telling her they wouldn't be delivering any more due to her dog biting the postman. This incident was actually not the postman, just someone delivering flyers for the GPO, not in uniform, who decided that the gate we had at the side of the house led to another property. The fact that he had already delivered to No.2 you would have thought would have told him there wasn't another property but no, he opened the gate, went round the side of the house to the back door, dog came flying out to deal with what she saw as an intruder and nipped his leg. She had never bitten before and never did again.
I wrote back to the post office and told them precisely what had happened and they backed down. We put a door on the side passage after that and bolted it so no more intruders.
One of mine used to grab post out of the letterbox so we put a wire cage on the back.
Some people are so careless about allowing dogs access to the front of the property, just don't understand them.
 
As I said in the other post (!) I live in a small bungalow and my dogs don't know what post or a postman/woman is, they have no reason to be near the front door and if I ever do come round the corner and they're there, the dog is on a lead.

There was a man strimming the garden on Wednesday who was roundly ignored.
 
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I have a baby gate across my corridor, protects everything and anyone including open doorways, post, etc ... Mine mostly ignore postie and post coming in, which is weird because they love barking and reacting to everything else, but I think during Covid when I was working from home, lots of post would arrive but I never got up to check, so they learned it's just a boring thing that happens in the background.
 
Tiddlypom said:
Whilst there is absolutely no need for any postie or delivery driver to come into contact with our 12" tall JRT, due to us routinely padlocking our 4' tall entrance gates and having both a post box and a doorbell outside the gates, just why do some delivery drivers think it a good idea to reach right over the gate to fondle her ears 😳?

Do they think that they are some sort of dog whisperer or something?

She does bark but is not human aggressive at all, but sticking your hand into someone else's garden to stroke a dog unasked is asking for trouble ☹️.
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we had a boiler serviceman do this. 29kg anxious carpathian behind a locked door and he took it on himself to go and stand in front of it to prove that if he "ignored her and stood quietly" she'd get bored and go and lie down.

He was asked to leave.
 
our dog has the back garden only and delivery men the front and they don't meet. The postbox is outside the premises.



If the dog is inside I don't open the front door to anyone unless he is in the kitchen which is behind 2 closed doors.
 
One of my postmen leaves biscuits for the dogs. I was a bit worried at first and examined them closely but they turned out to be good quality, however l still prefer the post and dogs to be kept apart as one of mine is partial to opening the post if she gets there first.
 
Some eejit from DPD dropped a parcel basically on top of her when we were out in the garden one day. Lazy fecker didn't even try the front door just yeeted it over my side gate. I went full fish wife. Not detracting from posties plight, just an aside.

Once we happened to be in the front porch when the postman came (on her lead about to go for a walk) and my poor dog got such a shock when the letter came in she jumped straight up into the air and still eyes the letterbox with suspicion. I always scan for postie now when I take her out 😂
 
gallopingby said:
One of my postmen leaves biscuits for the dogs. I was a bit worried at first and examined them closely but they turned out to be good quality, however l still prefer the post and dogs to be kept apart as one of mine is partial to opening the post if she gets there first.
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Our postie at the farm used to pull up, whistle, and hand out shapes. The dogs were often up in the yard with OH and would all charge off for a biscuit. Really not a lesson I wanted them learning.
 
The posties here puts post in the back door, Maz doesn't get out of bed for the event. To be fair everyone just comes in and out and she doesn't worry, she is unusual in that she doesn't have a bone in her body dedicated to guarding or bothering to say hello.
We had a friend do some cleaning during lambing time and maz doesn't even crawl out from under her duvet to say hi, same with the plumber who loves dogs.
The electrician isn't a dog fan so maz is kept away from him as I don't want anyone to feel uncomfortable doing their job.
 
Clodagh said:
Our postie at the farm used to pull up, whistle, and hand out shapes. The dogs were often up in the yard with OH and would all charge off for a biscuit. Really not a lesson I wanted them learning.
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Yeah, I'm not sure that 'running at approaching vans' is a lesson I'd want to teach any dogs of mine either😲
 
I worked as a postie for a while and had 3 dog warning cards for my route. The one dog was absolutely off its head scary. It tried everything to get through the window at you. There was a few others that I really hoped never got out too but thankfully I was never attacked before I left the RM

Some letter boxes were terrible for getting thin letters through so I had to roll them up tight to get it pushed through before the letters were nabbed at the other side. If you’d put your fingers through they would’ve definitely got bitten although not intentionally. It was obviously just fun when the Mail came through for the dog.

The worst thing with a postie is you go and the dog barks. You deliver the post and turn and walk away and in the dogs mind his barking made you leave. Job done. The next day is the same. And so it reinforces that behaviours. It’s a tricky one to retrain them. A lot of the rural posties took dog biscuits in the vans.
 
Our postie is most upset if the door is shut and the dog is in as he loves having a fuss with her.... I'm only not keen for when he has holiday cover who might not be dog friendly.
 
Peglo said:
The worst thing with a postie is you go and the dog barks. You deliver the post and turn and walk away and in the dogs mind his barking made you leave. Job done. The next day is the same. And so it reinforces that behaviours. It’s a tricky one to retrain them. A lot of the rural posties took dog biscuits in the vans.
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That's it. It wasn't the workman's place in A Fish Out of Water's example, but his point was valid.
 
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