Dog walking AIBU

You're not being unreasonable. I hate it when people do that.
I also hate it when they throw ball unexpectedly past my horse when I'm hacking and the dog comes pelting past from behind in what I call "predator pose" ... Argh :(
A ball went UNDER my horse once ... I mean WTF?!?!
 
If you + your dog/dogs were clearly visible, while they're walking behind you, their elevator is clearly not going all the way to the top floor.


But then I read about people throwing balls so it goes near a horse, and I think people can't get more stupid than that, only to read that they've also thrown a ball going under the horse.

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I almost can't believe I read that. What if the ball had bounced up, and hit the horse? What if the horse spooked? Rider thrown off, horse running off? Dog getting trampled, kicked...
 
Archangel said:
I get this lots of times. Especially with the ball launchers - straight at my dog. If my dog happens to pick it up I just walk on so they have to come running after me saying "can I have my ball back". Sometimes my dog picks up the other dog as well (just kidding).
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On a scale 0-10, how tempted are you to say "You sent it to my dog, a gift is a gift, you can't just come take it back"?

One could always hope it would teach them to be more careful about throwing balls your way.
 
FinnishLapphund said:
On a scale 0-10, how tempted are you to say "You sent it to my dog, a gift is a gift, you can't just come take it back"?

One could always hope it would teach them to be more careful about throwing balls your way.
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10 all day long! If they say something like "it's OK, s/he is friendly" as well then I get very, very, twitchy.
 
MissTyc said:
. Argh :(
A ball went UNDER my horse once ... I mean WTF?!?!
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you should try an out of control dog going under your horse. My horse had recently gone very blind. We led him outside of our gate onto the road to graze off the banks to improve his quality of life. Very few cars and we had one of us on each
side of him to make sure he knew where he was and he was safe. The horse caused no problems. Neighbour took their lurcher for a walk off lead, next thing we knew very fast lurcher completely out of control ran straight under him from front to back. Horse had no idea what was happening. He couldn't see or understand any of it. He was terrified. We were lucky not to get hurt as he tried to hold it together.
The air was blue.
 
No you are not being unreasonable at all. Sadly I think it is an example of the sort of behaviour that has to be expected nowadays.
Goodness I sound like a real old fart. But try not to get too bothered by the ball throwing, not worth the aggro /elevated blood pressure etc
 
It's just how regularly it happens that pees me off, it's not like an occasional person didn't think it seems to be bleedin everyone. Thankfully the GSD I was walking today (who loves to chase dogs, balls, squirrels etc) is very well trained to a whistle so when she lunged forward to chase I whistled and she stopped dead, god knows how far I might have been dragged otherwise lol
 
No not unreasonable at all.

That said even if my bitch wasn’t being trained to work, I’d make the effort to train any dog to be steady to chasing things without release if possible. I know two people who have lost dogs after they’ve bolted after something ended up being hit by a car.
 
paddy555 said:
you should try an out of control dog going under your horse.
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Sadly, has happened twice to me on my regular hacking route since lockdown... Thankfully, both times they've run under my extremely sensible little cob rather than the more reactive Arab we usually hack with. Both times, I've pointed out to the owner that my horse weighs well over half a ton and has lumps of metal nailed to her feet, so they should probably keep their dog on a lead. I've seen both dogs running loose since.

Also, this thread should probably be moved to All About Dogs rather than Breeding!
 
paddy555 said:
you should try an out of control dog going under your horse. My horse had recently gone very blind. We led him outside of our gate onto the road to graze off the banks to improve his quality of life. Very few cars and we had one of us on each
side of him to make sure he knew where he was and he was safe. The horse caused no problems. Neighbour took their lurcher for a walk off lead, next thing we knew very fast lurcher completely out of control ran straight under him from front to back. Horse had no idea what was happening. He couldn't see or understand any of it. He was terrified. We were lucky not to get hurt as he tried to hold it together.
The air was blue.
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Goodness! That sounds potentially horrific! We had one silly woman allow her dog on a longline to walk under the Appaloosa with my sister sitting on her. I was behind, also on a horse, and could only watch with my heart in my mouth. Fortunately the Appy was sensible about dogs and the dog wandered back towards its owner, without getting its lead tangled round her legs.
 
Pippity said:
. Thankfully, both times they've run under my extremely sensible little cob rather than the more reactive Arab we usually hack with. !
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Ah but life is more exciting with an arab. I rode round a corner to find OH on our arab stallion with all 4 feet in the air with a dog attached. What amazed me was that it was a golden retriever. Not a breed that I thought would be a problem. As you can imagine the owners immediately caught it and were overcome with their apologies. NOT!

We have just had so many of them over the years. Good you had a sensible appy PAS.

This situation just gets worse year on year.
 
Get it all the time, massive park, people head straight for me despite my deer in headlights pose as I put the lead on and hobble off. I can be clearly training, dog in a sit, dummy in hand yet still I get people chucking a ball straight at me! I’m lucky that my two are very funny about balls that don’t belong to them and won’t pick them up.
 
Even more disturbing is the local nob who has acquired a boomerang and is trying to perfect his skills on the village green. Sadly, he has a long way to go....in other words, plenty of room for improvement. :(

I can (just about) cope with a tennis ball being flung in my vague direction and that of my dogs, but a boomerang freaks me out.
 
It's a crappy thing to do and one of the reasons why I have arms like Popeye.
Both of my dogs carry a ball on walks but will try and go after something if it whizzes past them.
One currently has a soccer ball which was sitting outside my house, it's his now ?

I was at the beach last year and my mate, who doesn't even have a dog and never has, in fairness to her, shouted DON'T THROW THAT BALL at someone.
All you need to do is wait a few moments for someone to pass.
 
I had a very dog reactive dog in Australia. He was a dobermann cross and really enjoyed a good fight. He was socialised enough that he didn't just start them out the blue but if someone else was up for it, or even said 'hi' wrong it was good enough as a trigger. A ball being thrown in his direction (he always had one in his mouth already) he didn't go for the ball but for the dog that was after it. I tended to think that was justified!
 
Clodagh said:
I had a very dog reactive dog in Australia. He was a dobermann cross and really enjoyed a good fight. He was socialised enough that he didn't just start them out the blue but if someone else was up for it, or even said 'hi' wrong it was good enough as a trigger. A ball being thrown in his direction (he always had one in his mouth already) he didn't go for the ball but for the dog that was after it. I tended to think that was justified!
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You beat me to it, C.

I was just about to say for an anxious or reactive dog, it isn't the ball hurtling towards them that is the problem but the dog in pursuit of the ball.
 
Luckily not had it happen while mine are on lead, but it did happen off lead in a local large exercise field, (primarily for humans) when my GSD was a youngster. Me ang my dog, and them and their dog were the only ones in a 10 acre field. They had a ball chucker and whammed it pretty much directly at us from 100ft away (my boy was heeling nicely). He caught it in the air. I shouted 'thank you' and we left the field. I could have got him to drop it no worries, but why would I?

People don't seem very good with balls on walks anyway. My boy has collected about 25 or so since we moved to this house and walk in the country park across the road. He brings them home and they live by the front door. Sometimes he selects one to take back with us.
 
fankino04 said:
Is it unreasonable to expect people to think before they lob their ball straight past your on lead dog for theirs to run after? Presumably lots of dogs would get excited by this and want to give chase??
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This is where I love to practice my stop whistle!! Mant pet dog owners are pretty impressed!! One place I like to walk is in a hay field alongside one of those enclosed dog fields (I have permission to be there) so many people just chuck balls constantly when using the runs, loads go over the fence for the spanners to find, I haven't had to buy any for ages, I used to lob them back but I keep them now!!
 
paddy555 said:
you should try an out of control dog going under your horse. My horse had recently gone very blind. We led him outside of our gate onto the road to graze off the banks to improve his quality of life. Very few cars and we had one of us on each
side of him to make sure he knew where he was and he was safe. The horse caused no problems. Neighbour took their lurcher for a walk off lead, next thing we knew very fast lurcher completely out of control ran straight under him from front to back. Horse had no idea what was happening. He couldn't see or understand any of it. He was terrified. We were lucky not to get hurt as he tried to hold it together.
The air was blue.
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Yikes! Why oh why are people such ar$ewipe$.
 
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