Irresponsible Owners

At last a judge who hands down a decent sentence, we could have hoped for more, but this is better than the pathetic suspended sentences and dismally small fines…Do hope this lays down a marker for other cases and judges…..
 
I'm pleased to not have had reason to post on here for a good while but had a couple of things recently.

Last weekend had dog settled nicely in cafe, guy asks if his puppy (who had been barking at us from across the way) can say hello. Before the words 'actually no...' had a chance to leave my mouth, the pup was already there. Fairly predictably it wanted to play and jumped up at Ivy who was laying down. Ivy gave a growl but to me it was a very measured correction of the pup who hadn't done anything wrong, just being a puppy in a busy place learning how to behave (or not). Not a biggie but then my dog looks like the mean one when she was behaving exactly how we have asked her to and minding her own business!

Then today a much more unpleasant experience. Walking along hedge line in a field (incidentally, one which will likely have sheep with lambs in fairly soon) when a big young boxer emerges from where the gate is further up. Can hear owner but not see them so we stood still. OH told the dog no and it did stop. Finally owner catches up with another boxer on a lead. Young one absolutely not listening and approaches. OH says no again but it ends up reaching him. Other owner starts getting arsey telling OH to just grab it by the collar and bring his dog back over to him. Fairly understandably OH isn't sure about this so I give him our spare lead. Other owner gets rude about that too. OH returns dog to owner who then explains he couldn't come and get his off lead dog is because the on lead one would kick off at us.

Fantastic. So we have a large, young, off lead dog with no recall and if it gets into any kind of trouble, an owner who can't do anything about it because the on lead dog will cause problems.

He was so rude to OH and I for no reason; we were calm to not upset his young dog and I think basically all we said through this whole interaction was 'no'. When we walked off I said to OH I was glad he was there because if I had been on my own, I'd have been stuffed (or clipping the young dog on a lead and walking it home with me because we wouldn't be able to go near the guy with the other dog!)

OH agreed if he hadn't have been there, the guy probably would have behaved worse with me. Eugh!
 
I can't sufficiently express my contempt of this individual. Your OH was I dare say correct. Anyway it was clearly all your fault for being there 🙄🙄

Many years ago a couple of GSDs pinned my shrieking Labxcollie down in some woods. I told their owner to get his effing dogs off mine. He said not till I asked more politely!! I was forced to grovel. I went home and told OH who was furious and said he wouldn't have responded like that to him. I'm sure he was right.

Despicable.
 
As I was driving home, a woman at the bottom of my lane did that thing where someone pops the tailgate and the dog was off and running before she was out of the driver's seat. Annoying

As I drove slowly behind her (think 5mph, which is fine, it's a shared space) she holds up her hand and indicates she is going to leash dog, fine and stands aside for me to pass. She releases dog immediately once I pass, fine.
As I am reversing into my driveway, I spot something white in my mirrors.
THE DOG IS CHASING MY WHEELS AND RUNNING AROUND IN FRONT OF AND BEHIND MY MOVING VEHICLE. And she's still at the bottom of the lane and isn't seeing any of this.
So I just stop and wait for her to catch up as I'm not going to squash her dog. She just goes 'come on' to the dog and keeps going.

You're welcome, I guess? If I see her again l'll tell her but I was too busy getting the car in the gate and she'd already walked on by the time I'd finished.
 
It's insane isnt it _these idiots all profess to lurve their ickle darlings but in reality they could' t care less about them. Today as I was sitting peacefully indoors all hell let loose outside my front door a dog was barking and screaming and something was banging on the door. When I opened it the dog that has already attacked my dog twice and even had a go at me when I didn't have a dog at all, appeared to have run down to my house, (it had to go past another house to get here) but had only started barking and jumping at the door when it got to me. Now that's a first for me, to have a dog go to those lengths to try and eat mine! Sigh.
 
Littlest Hobo said:
It's insane isnt it _these idiots all profess to lurve their ickle darlings but in reality they could' t care less about them. Today as I was sitting peacefully indoors all hell let loose outside my front door a dog was barking and screaming and something was banging on the door. When I opened it the dog that has already attacked my dog twice and even had a go at me when I didn't have a dog at all, appeared to have run down to my house, (it had to go past another house to get here) but had only started barking and jumping at the door when it got to me. Now that's a first for me, to have a dog go to those lengths to try and eat mine! Sigh.
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Yeah, if a dog goes that far out of its way to attack another one, that's a major problem.
 
CorvusCorax said:
As I was driving home, a woman at the bottom of my lane did that thing where someone pops the tailgate and the dog was off and running before she was out of the driver's seat. Annoying

As I drove slowly behind her (think 5mph, which is fine, it's a shared space) she holds up her hand and indicates she is going to leash dog, fine and stands aside for me to pass. She releases dog immediately once I pass, fine.
As I am reversing into my driveway, I spot something white in my mirrors.
THE DOG IS CHASING MY WHEELS AND RUNNING AROUND IN FRONT OF AND BEHIND MY MOVING VEHICLE. And she's still at the bottom of the lane and isn't seeing any of this.
So I just stop and wait for her to catch up as I'm not going to squash her dog. She just goes 'come on' to the dog and keeps going.

You're welcome, I guess? If I see her again l'll tell her but I was too busy getting the car in the gate and she'd already walked on by the time I'd finished.
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These people are completely irresponsible and unfit to be in charge of any living thing
 
Agility training today. I have already had a problem with the owner and their 30kg+ entire male herding type bowling up to my lurcher in the ring last year and having to be dragged away, in hindsight I should have reported that incident to the show Sec - I know the Judge was shocked at what had happened. Today I was in the same training session as this dog. Rew had finished running, and I’d brought Fig, all 5kg of her, in to sit quietly, minding her own business and he just watch. All going very well. Jumps needed the height changing, so everyone gets up to do this, I walk from my seat in a straight line towards a jump which is directly in front of me, with Fig of course on the lead as was every other dog in there… or so I thought. The herding dog appears off lead, rams his head under Fig’s little body to check her out, lifting her off the ground. I snatch her up in the air out of his way - this dog could snap her in half.

Luckily I didn’t hear the owners comment at the time, it was told to me later that they said ‘ well you shouldn’t have paraded her in front of his nose’. For the record she is six months old, so never been in season. At no time has this person ever said they are sorry to me, but now both of my dogs have been abused by their dog.
 
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