Irresponsible dog owner causes lunchtime rage.

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puppystitch

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I was just walking along a busy city street to get lunch and saw two border collies, one with no collar, the other with a lead dragging along the floor with the other dog's collar attached to it. Both wandering aimlessly, not obviously with anyone. Various suit-types rushing past, looking at them in bewilderment. The dog with the lead dragging wandered up the pavement about 10 metres ahead of me and turned left down a side street, the collarless dog was loitering but going up to the people rushing past. So I did the only normal thing - stopped and said hello to the collarless dog. Very friendly so I stroked the back of it's neck, ready to grab it if needed, in the meantime the other dog has wandered back and come to say hello too. Out of nowhere, an angry voice says "Excuse me, leave my dogs alone" and I spotted a man standing between two parked cars (so IN the road), on his phone. I was honestly speechless, and only managed to say something about the collar dragging on the floor, which he claimed was fine (whilst still on the phone), then I finally got my wits together and sternly told him he was lucky they weren't run over. No point to this post really, other than needing to tell someone how furious I was! How dare he be angry at me when he was oblivious to his lovely dogs out of control on a busy road! Grrr!
 
You could cheerfully strangle some dog owners.

I see we have another poor dog abandoned at a station, I expect this will become
a regular occurrence now.
 
It's infuriating! I just can't imagine being that laissez-faire about the welfare of my dogs - the guy barely looked up, and made no effort at all to get them back under control. My friend and I were tempted to run away with them!
 
Ooh this sort of incident winds me up beyond belief. No matter how obedient and under control people think their dogs are, all it takes is a split second for the dog(s) to get slightly confused or scared and they're under the wheels of a car.

I learnt this the hard way years ago with my little JRT. She was always on a lead on busy roads but on the quiet back roads I sometimes didn't bother as she would have followed me to the moon and back.

Never had an incident until one fateful evening, about fifty yards from home. I had stopped to talk to my neighbour, then went our separate ways. Pip got slightly confused and followed neighbour straight across the road and was hit by a car. Very luckily the car just caught her very slightly and she was fine but it taught me a lesson I'll never forget.

Lovely little Pip eventually died of old age in her 21st year but she was never allowed off her lead around traffic again.
 
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