Irresponsible Owners

ArklePig said:
Eugggh. I'm just back from walking Fodhla and ran into a dog and owner I dread running into. Her idea of walking her dog is chain smoking on a bench while he runs riot. Luckily Fodhla is pretty neutral toward most dogs especially when she knows I have toys.I ignored him and Fodhla and I walked off and he started following and she just kept shouting it's name. Then he started approaching Fodhla and getting in her space so I stood between them while at this point she's miles away shouting his name over and over. At this point I bellowed 'ARE YOU GOING TO COME GET YOUR DOG OR WAIT TIL I GIVE HIM A SHOE UP THE HOLE'. And then 'your dog has zero recall why are you calling his name'. Normally I'd say something like 'can you get your dog please' but I'm sick to death of this woman.

Most dog owners round here are decent but it's the same ones over and over that are a pain in the arse.

I could just as easy put this on the happy thread though 'today I was mobile enough to walk my dog'
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YASS QUEEN!!
 
ArklePig said:
Eugggh. I'm just back from walking Fodhla and ran into a dog and owner I dread running into. Her idea of walking her dog is chain smoking on a bench while he runs riot. Luckily Fodhla is pretty neutral toward most dogs especially when she knows I have toys.I ignored him and Fodhla and I walked off and he started following and she just kept shouting it's name. Then he started approaching Fodhla and getting in her space so I stood between them while at this point she's miles away shouting his name over and over. At this point I bellowed 'ARE YOU GOING TO COME GET YOUR DOG OR WAIT TIL I GIVE HIM A SHOE UP THE HOLE'. And then 'your dog has zero recall why are you calling his name'. Normally I'd say something like 'can you get your dog please' but I'm sick to death of this woman.

Most dog owners round here are decent but it's the same ones over and over that are a pain in the arse.

I could just as easy put this on the happy thread though 'today I was mobile enough to walk my dog'
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I'd love to sit and chain smoke 😂😂

I met a large dog last year that had no recall. It was my fault 😀!! Was told by it's owner to keep on walking and ignore it, difficult as it was in my little dog's face. Him and me told it to sod off a few times which didn't work and owner was determined not to try and catch it but had convinced himself that the 200th "Luna" would magically recall the thing. He then got very irate when, as instructed, I continued walking but I was approaching a headland with a steep cliff and he changed his tune!! I then got a lecture on how dogs should be on a lead there (hmm, mine was) and how loads of dogs had fallen from the cliffs and died! That being the case, and it was pretty obvious due to the fact that I was heading in that direction initially, I would have expected more of an attempt at catching the animal.
 
LunaLunaLunaLuna is a very popular one here.

Someone once had 'RUPERT DOESN'T KNOW HIS NAME' at them....

I had that conversation with someone the other day, I said the dog's name meant nothing to it, they said 'oh but he knows it at home', which is always my cue to say 'we're not at home, we're here and he is ignoring it'.
This person is trying though and has made huge progress in the last week.
 
Ha! I know a girl with an uncivilised Luna, I actually get embarrassed when I run into her out walking because she wants to walk with us. My walks are quality time with my girl I don't feel like using them to educate this woman and have a background of lunalunaluna to my walk. Luna does not give a F. I don't know if it's a Luna thing or just the laws of probabilities as it's such a popular name.
 
ArklePig said:
Eugggh. I'm just back from walking Fodhla and ran into a dog and owner I dread running into. Her idea of walking her dog is chain smoking on a bench while he runs riot
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It's a few years ago now when I was out with my dogs, a woman pulled up at the gateway, got out of the car with a coffee and her phone. She let the dog out of the car to run amok while she just stood in the gateway, on her phone, drinking her coffee.
 
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ArklePig said:
Eugggh. I'm just back from walking Fodhla and ran into a dog and owner I dread running into. Her idea of walking her dog is chain smoking on a bench while he runs riot. Luckily Fodhla is pretty neutral toward most dogs especially when she knows I have toys.I ignored him and Fodhla and I walked off and he started following and she just kept shouting it's name. Then he started approaching Fodhla and getting in her space so I stood between them while at this point she's miles away shouting his name over and over. At this point I bellowed 'ARE YOU GOING TO COME GET YOUR DOG OR WAIT TIL I GIVE HIM A SHOE UP THE HOLE'. And then 'your dog has zero recall why are you calling his name'. Normally I'd say something like 'can you get your dog please' but I'm sick to death of this woman.

Most dog owners round here are decent but it's the same ones over and over that are a pain in the arse.

I could just as easy put this on the happy thread though 'today I was mobile enough to walk my dog'
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*Applauds wildly* Superb-to both things! I would have cheered had I been in earshot. When we used the park with Zak, there were 2 French bulldog things, crosses, dunno and the family would sit on one of the picnic benches and let them run riot. We were always walking away with purpose, like catch on, you eejits!
ArklePig said:
Ha! I know a girl with an uncivilised Luna, I actually get embarrassed when I run into her out walking because she wants to walk with us. My walks are quality time with my girl I don't feel like using them to educate this woman and have a background of lunalunaluna to my walk. Luna does not give a F. I don't know if it's a Luna thing or just the laws of probabilities as it's such a popular name.
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There's Luna the pointer at the park, got in our faces the first ever puppy walk, but then played nicely until she got in Bear's face and he proper growled at her. This was not long after Zak's death, so he was still in the 'Protect the pack' zone. Youngsters just zoom away from potential problems, so he has nobody he needs to protect.
 
My neighbor has a Luna. A black and white Pitbull type. She stays in their fenced area. She did get out one time and just ran over to OH and fell in love with him.

Otherwise, I haven't had any interactions with a Luna.
 
Some local dog was barking over and over from midnight last night. It sounded like a large dog that was locked outside.
My dogs wouldn’t go to bed as a result and were howling. So we had to stay downstairs with them to keep them quiet, while this dog barked on and on and on.
I couldn’t work out what house it was coming from because a bit of a wind had picked up and the sound was carrying, or I’d have been knocking on the door.
I am exhausted this morning.
 
blackcob said:
Every year I run a report off our practice management software for the top ten pet names. Luna is by far the biggest climber - it's gone from 8th, to 4th, to 2nd place in three years.
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I must be awkward being one of five people in the park shouting the same name...
Though I'd imagine that happens here in France a lot, because animals are supposed to named with a name starting with the letter designated for the year. Last year was "U" for dogs and cats. Every third male dog from last year seems to be named Ulysses.
 
scats said:
Some local dog was barking over and over from midnight last night. It sounded like a large dog that was locked outside.
My dogs wouldn’t go to bed as a result and were howling. So we had to stay downstairs with them to keep them quiet, while this dog barked on and on and on.
I couldn’t work out what house it was coming from because a bit of a wind had picked up and the sound was carrying, or I’d have been knocking on the door.
I am exhausted this morning.
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Many, many years ago one of mine either got outside or I left him outside once. I didn't hear him but my neighbors did. I can't remember what woke me up. The dog or the neighbor.

And on a more charming /s note, 3 times this week Freddie has jumped the fence at night. I've been with the little $h1t. She has a reflective collar because she did this in the past. She's to be fastened to a log by a long line for a while until she learns that fence jumping is NOT ACCEPTABLE. Her owner doesn't like being terrified and I hate being the Freddiefreddiefreddie one.
 
Well today a lovely walk with daughter and her little dog and my two. Came across what I think was a Cane Corso (looks like all the pictures I have ever seen of one). Impressive looking dog walking with a man and his smaller french bulldog. Cane Corso was calm, attentive to him and on a long lunge type line but reeled in to pass other dogs. He was very obviously avoiding narrow and busy paths in the woods and taking side tracks when meeting groups of dogs. I think he was doing this because of the type of dog he had might cause concern as the dog itself was beautifully behaved, looked very relaxed and gave no cause for alarm. We put ours on lead to pass and he said thank you. I just think it must be hard to walk a dog like this at the moment, in a public place and it makes a change to see someone really have control of their dog and setting an example to all the bouncing labs, retrievers, and every other dog in the woods 😍.
 
We also had the pleasure of seeing a beautifully trained and attentive dog out on our walk today. A Lab doing dummy pick ups (sorry I don't know the terminology) where he had to stay with his owner walking the opposite way to where the dummy was thrown, then got sent off to search for it. One run had it absolutely hurtling past us, total focus on the job. They did a stop and change direction when he couldn't find one, we started moving as thought we could be distracting but then realised it was more likely direction for the dog! It was a joy to watch. Two spaniels being absolute pain while he was walking to heel, still totally focused. Thankfully we were spared spaniel harassment but they did go and bother another person and their on lead dog, no control, no apologies 🙄

Pulled up the car at home though and the XL bully which I manhandled my OH out and launched all 27kg of our Greyhound in the car a week or two ago, walking down our street again. No muzzle. Walking reasonably nicely with a lead (we stayed in the car til it was gone to avoid changing that)...being held in it's mouth but not actually attached to it. It looked bigger in the day than it did when I saw it before at night. Big nope from me.
 
I agree you haven't a lot to report but approx times and appearance may help.

Next steps in the XL Bully ban

As from today (1 February) enforcement action will be taken as the next stage of the XL Bully ban begins. We understand the new restrictions on XL Bully dogs are an adjustment and change for everyone. Thousands of dogs have already been registered and owners are stepping up and following the...
www.southyorks.police.uk www.southyorks.police.uk

Hope the above is of some use. Of course, they may do nothing, but then again, they can't act on information they have not had 😊
 
Listening just now to Sara Cox on R2.

She was relating how she has recently taken her mare Nelly to Tring Gallops for a spin. The gallops are well sign posted to alert people to stay off them due to fast horses approaching. Nelly was well up for it, but the pair of them encountered a lady walking 8 dogs right on the gallops, ranging in size from a St Bernard downwards 😱. Described as being like a nest of Russian dolls, except in dogs, ranging downwards in size from the St Bernard.

Sara had a little chat with the dog walker but she hates confrontation and is feeling mortified. She did let the gallops owners know too.

Stupid dog walker. 8 dogs and can’t read, apparently.
 
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