Irresponsible Owners

[Landcruiser]

I used to know a dog who would pick raspberries for himself

Neville (our springer x poodle) scrumped every single one of our raspberries and gooseberries, I just gave up growing them in the end! Even when I caged them the bugger broke in

 

[teapot]

Just had a lovely experience walking along the sea wall - there's a seal enjoying the sunshine, local wildlife watch/mammal organisation are protecting it from dogs mainly and ensuring it goes back out to sea (has been on the beach all day). Some collie bounds down, lies down on the path, getting fully ready to go at it, then jumps onto the beach getting ever closer. Volunteer gets between seal and dog.

Dog was called back a number of times to no avail, finally the absolute arse of an owner walks past f'ing and blinding about do-gooders and let the thing die, bloody hate them. If you go near my dog I'll hit you etc etc.

I eventually caught up with said bloke (and totally silent wife four paces behind who by this point had all three dogs on the lead...), and he's still mouthing off about do-gooders. I politely pointed out they were trying to protect the dog from getting bitten as much as anything else. 'Oh **** off, who cares, I bloody hate them, they do so much damage, I'll come back and kill it later', want my name and number as proof?' I just kept on walking, but my god.

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

I used to know a dog who would pick raspberries for himself

Ivy did this in my mum's garden last year. On the one hand mum was annoyed but on the other thought it was quite sweet as mum quite likes to go foraging too!

When we very first had her, she leapt up on to the sofa and onto me when I crunched into an apple. This was pretty shocking given she was still quite nervous then so hadn't really got her paws under the table yet. She absolutely loved a bit of apple and OH used to bite chunks of his to share with her. I wondered whether someone working it the kennels when she was a pup might have shared theirs with her. However now she's not interested, having learned about the good stuff in life she holds out for that!

 

[DabDab]

Neville (our springer x poodle) scrumped every single one of our raspberries and gooseberries, I just gave up growing them in the end! Even when I caged them the bugger broke in

Likewise, strawberries can now only be grown in hanging baskets around here or the Westie has them all.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

It was a completely different situation, but when I had trouble getting a police call handler to take an incident seriously I did end up explaining that if somebody drowned or was injured as a result of them ignoring my call, I would be contacting the papers to make it clear that the situation was reported that people were endangered and no action was taken. I got a crime number. Social media is much more powerful now than it was then and possibly a similar statement, made calmly, will produce a result about loose xl bullies?

As part of that call, the call handler made the entirely serious suggestion that I should visit an illegal rave site where there was plenty of alcohol being consumed, and very likely drugs, as a lone female, out in the countryside, to speak to the organisers
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My OH is going mad about the call handlers. Not their fault, but they're not specialists, they're often clueless about the areas covered. A classic last week had them sending an officer locally to an incident 20 minutes away whilst sending the officer in that area yo an incident right by the first unit who was making their way 20 minutes away. Just farcical.

This dog has been allowed out by its owner to roam free for months.

Dog warden contacted multiple times, owner told they are not allowed to allow their dog to roam free.

The owner completely ignores it and continues to allow it to happen.

They are now basically saying they cant do anything without building up a case from witnesses who see the dog fouling in public or similar. Apparently the dog causing trouble for reactive dogs cannot be considered as a problem.

Can someone pick it up and take it to a not local rescue? Any rescue? So the owners have to pay to get it back? Might encourage them to keep it in.

Just had a lovely experience walking along the sea wall - there's a seal enjoying the sunshine, local wildlife watch/mammal organisation are protecting it from dogs mainly and ensuring it goes back out to sea (has been on the beach all day). Some collie bounds down, lies down on the path, getting fully ready to go at it, then jumps onto the beach getting ever closer. Volunteer gets between seal and dog.

Dog was called back a number of times to no available, finally the absolute arse of an owner walks past f'ing and blinding about do-gooders and let the thing die, bloody hate them. If you go near my dog I'll hit you etc etc.

I eventually caught up with said bloke (and totally silent wife four paces behind who by this point had all three dogs on the lead...), and he's still mouthing off about do-gooders. I politely pointed out they were trying to protect the dog from getting bitten as much as anything else. 'Oh **** off, who cares, I bloody hate them, they do so much damage, I'll come back and kill it later', want my name and number as proof?' I just kept on walking, but my god.

Omg, the idiots walk among us!

 

[Jenko109]

Nobody can catch it unfortunately.

 

[cauda equina]

Nobody can catch it unfortunately.

Perhaps reports to the dog warden could be embellished a bit (eg people saying they felt threatened or in danger) to get over the line for contravening the dangerous dogs act

 

[MurphysMinder]

Not owner but an irresponsible rescue/foster. Just seen this on a breed rescue page , yes they use the twee dog writing thing "On Tuesday I was taken down to the local enclosed field. It was great! I remember it from before. I had a ball thrown for me loads of times I was so tired I could hardly jump back in to the boot of the car." !

 

[ycbm]

My OH is going mad about the call handlers.

I knew it was a civilian call handler CT, there was no way a policeman would have given that advice to anyone, never mind a female.
.

 

[SilverLinings]

Just had a lovely experience walking along the sea wall - there's a seal enjoying the sunshine, local wildlife watch/mammal organisation are protecting it from dogs mainly and ensuring it goes back out to sea (has been on the beach all day). Some collie bounds down, lies down on the path, getting fully ready to go at it, then jumps onto the beach getting ever closer. Volunteer gets between seal and dog.

Dog was called back a number of times to no avail, finally the absolute arse of an owner walks past f'ing and blinding about do-gooders and let the thing die, bloody hate them. If you go near my dog I'll hit you etc etc.

I eventually caught up with said bloke (and totally silent wife four paces behind who by this point had all three dogs on the lead...), and he's still mouthing off about do-gooders. I politely pointed out they were trying to protect the dog from getting bitten as much as anything else. 'Oh **** off, who cares, I bloody hate them, they do so much damage, I'll come back and kill it later', want my name and number as proof?' I just kept on walking, but my god.

Really great to know that there are people like this in society, he sounds like a right piece of work. I hope the seal eventually made it back into the sea unscathed, and that the man's partner dumps him and takes the dogs with her!

 

[Chippers1]

Not so much irresponsible but I took Clover to a new country park on Sunday morning and was having a lovely walk, she was behaving nicely and not jumping on anyone or any dog then as I walked down a hill I spotted a man standing with his French bulldog. When I got closer he stopped me and asked if Clover was a girl as his dog 'saw her and refused to move' I said yes but she's only 5 months so I'm not sure he will even be noticing anything, had a quick chat then went on my way back up a windy, wooded path the other side.
I had put a fair bit of distance between me and him but when I stopped as I was going to take a photo I noticed he was fairly close behind me which was odd as he would've had to have gone quite quickly to get from where he was to there, especially with his chubby frenchie but carried on my way until I was rounding the last bend (although I didn't know it was the last) and he had managed to get right behind me. He may have also been enjoying a power walk with his dog but it just felt so unnerving to have this guy coming so quickly behind me, especially after he'd stopped me previously I'm not normally one to jump to any kind of conclusion but I was on a secluded, wooded path in a park I didn't know and there was no one around early morning, I don't think I will do that walk again now.
Fortunately as I rounded the next bend I was on a main path again with people around.
Hopefully not a common occurrence as I just wanted to be out with my dog!

 

[Pearlsasinger]

Neville (our springer x poodle) scrumped every single one of our raspberries and gooseberries, I just gave up growing them in the end! Even when I caged them the bugger broke in

We used to have a Lab who loved to pick blackberries when out on a walk

 

[blackcob]

OH got bitten by a loose dog in the street last week (unharmed, it was a small dog and only got a mouthful of his clothes). The owner did apologise but as it had actually made contact OH wasn’t very gracious about it and told her it wasn’t good enough and that she needed to keep it on a lead. Apparently she “didn’t have to say sorry”.

Anyhow, lost dog post on the community FB page last night and lo, it’s the same dog. Double whammy of owner stupid enough to let it out again and let’s also hope that it doesn’t eat anyone trying to help it…

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

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Hmm... link is coming up in another language but anyway... Sharpei X Staffie x "something else" but "definitely not an XL" anyone?

Eta - someone made what seems a sensible suggestion to DNA test him to work out why he is so large as apparently neither breed would account for him being 45-50kg, making the point that it could give some clues about breed-based needs which could be helpful for new owners to know given his size. And people have gone in at them for that.

Eta 2 - scrolling through they seem to have a variety of types of dog but I get a skewed view of them as someone I am on FB with seems to always share ones that make me raise a brow!

 

[ester]

You can see the sharpei but that doesn’t stop it meeting the xl description I shouldnt think

 

[nutjob]

You can see the sharpei but that doesn’t stop it meeting the xl description I shouldnt think

You can, but sharpei are typically half the weight of this dog and staffys even smaller. When this thing has finished growing it will probably be heavier than me and they admit needs a lot of training and is currently out of control. Not for the faint hearted or inexperienced and it would be in the interests of everyone including the dog to admit what the breeding actually is.

 

[splashgirl45]

Sharpie cross staffie isn’t a cross that sounds like a family dog, looks very much like the size of an XL bully and has the look and will be even bigger and stronger on maturity …wouldn’t like it to be rehomed near where I walk my dogs, I wonder why it’s being rehomed ? and why it is a pent up ball of energy ?

 

[oldandgold]

I dread to think what the little bit of something else is.

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

You can see the sharpei but that doesn’t stop it meeting the xl description I shouldnt think

Yep someone pointed out that he could still measure and be of type, but that comment has been ignored and elsewhere they just keep saying 'there's no XL in him' but if it's a type not breed then surely that's irrelevant.

Also spotted that the rescue poster says they and friends have the siblings of this dog, so surely they might know a bit more about his breeding? Unless there was a dumped litter I guess. They all insist they're great family dogs though so

 

[blackcob]

Ah, summer, season of leaving your dog out in the front garden to fly at dogs passing on the narrow pavement.

There’s three regulars that I know to avoid but we discovered a new one today. The garden is surrounded by a wall so I didn’t see that there was a cocker spaniel poised at the front gate until we were passing it. Nasty little git got the large dog right on the tip of the nose.

 

[SilverLinings]

OH got bitten by a loose dog in the street last week (unharmed, it was a small dog and only got a mouthful of his clothes). The owner did apologise but as it had actually made contact OH wasn’t very gracious about it and told her it wasn’t good enough and that she needed to keep it on a lead. Apparently she “didn’t have to say sorry”.

Anyhow, lost dog post on the community FB page last night and lo, it’s the same dog. Double whammy of owner stupid enough to let it out again and let’s also hope that it doesn’t eat anyone trying to help it…

I really hope your husband posted a comment warning anyone who finds the dog that it is aggressive and that the owner is unlikely to thank them for helping

 

[P3LH]

Show bred labs, who are overweight, under exercised and with zero manners and owned my joules fashion victims who think labs come already trained. I am currently moving like the tin man/a bill and Ben puppet after being taken out by one In a style taking me back to my rugby days, after it molested my male corgi who has HD and is now lame, and mithering our youngster into a tetchy wreck.

It reaffirms why I no longer enjoy dog walks.

 

[ester]

Ah, summer, season of leaving your dog out in the front garden to fly at dogs passing on the narrow pavement.

There’s three regulars that I know to avoid but we discovered a new one today. The garden is surrounded by a wall so I didn’t see that there was a cocker spaniel poised at the front gate until we were passing it. Nasty little git got the large dog right on the tip of the nose.

There's 3 within shouting distance, and someone without a dog it drives me nuts, and then they let them carry on while they have a chat (all smalls)

 

[ponyparty]

We’re on hol at the moment, I’ve lost count of the number of people who let their off lead dog run over and try to jump all over mine, on our towels/bags on the beach, allow them to get in other dogs faces on the street, one today had a dog yapping constantly, so she let it off to stop the yapping, and then it proceeded to nause every dog nearby and she couldn’t catch it again… it’s just numpty central round here, I can’t wait to get home to normality I’m now limited to holidaying in school hols as my son is at school now… if this is what it’s like, I’d rather stay at home

 

[P3LH]

We’re on hol at the moment, I’ve lost count of the number of people who let their off lead dog run over and try to jump all over mine, on our towels/bags on the beach, allow them to get in other dogs faces on the street, one today had a dog yapping constantly, so she let it off to stop the yapping, and then it proceeded to nause every dog nearby and she couldn’t catch it again… it’s just numpty central round here, I can’t wait to get home to normality I’m now limited to holidaying in school hols as my son is at school now… if this is what it’s like, I’d rather stay at home

I think on holiday decency gets forgotten. We were away this week and one of ours made a nuisance of themselves to someone on the beach who got a treat bag out as we passed - quickly getting the dog back and apologising isn’t hard. Beaches and dogs are pressure cookers because I think, unless you live by one and go there every day, even the most well trained and sensible dogs can lose their heads a little bit - but that’s not an excuse for owners not giving a shit. I think people must think I’m a right lunatic as I over apologise half the time for the dogs even going up to say hello to someone who has initiated the greeting!

 

[ponyparty]

I think on holiday decency gets forgotten. We were away this week and one of ours made a nuisance of themselves to someone on the beach who got a treat bag out as we passed - quickly getting the dog back and apologising isn’t hard. Beaches and dogs are pressure cookers because I think, unless you live by one and go there every day, even the most well trained and sensible dogs can lose their heads a little bit - but that’s not an excuse for owners not giving a shit. I think people must think I’m a right lunatic as I over apologise half the time for the dogs even going up to say hello to someone who has initiated the greeting!

Is it that decency gets forgotten, or is it just larger numbers of ignorant, selfish, irresponsible people crammed together in one spot? Feeling very grumpy with it all today. Went to one of my favourite beauty spots this week, in school hols for the first time ever. Usually it’s peaceful and serene but it was teeming with People and their annoying Children. I’m done with school hols can’t imagine how annoying it must be for locals (although appreciate it’s also a good source of income).

 

[P3LH]

Is it that decency gets forgotten, or is it just larger numbers of ignorant, selfish, irresponsible people crammed together in one spot? Feeling very grumpy with it all today. Went to one of my favourite beauty spots this week, in school hols for the first time ever. Usually it’s peaceful and serene but it was teeming with People and their annoying Children. I’m done with school hols can’t imagine how annoying it must be for locals (although appreciate it’s also a good source of income).

Perhaps a bit of both! Someone didn’t seem to share my irate state when their dog shoved its head in our picnic basket when I was half dosing in the three seconds of sun we had this week!

 

[Pippity]

My local park is usually very good - dogs all on leads, owners paying attention to dog/surroundings, rather than their phone.

Except for yesterday. A very sweet little Yorkie, with a harness but no lead or apparent owner, decided to adopt me the moment I walked into the park. It was very polite about it, trotting nicely at my side, but it wasn't going to leave me.

After about fifteen minutes, I finally spotted a woman about my height and build, dressed similarly, with a lead but no dog. She was too busy talking on her phone to have noticed the lack of dog.

As soon as it got close enough, the Yorkie abandoned me and ran off to the other woman, who noticed its arrival as much as it's disappearance, ie, not at all.

 

[oldandgold]

We have just come back off our hols, and I will say that everyone (barring fluffy in the pub) were all very good. On the beaches or woods if dogs were seen approaching then all dogs including ours were either called to heel or leads slipped on. Everyone saying the same sort of thing, dogs were friendly but they didn't want them being a nuisance to other dogs and people. It was actually a delight to be able to go out with the dogs in such a friendly relaxed atmosphere.

 

[ponyparty]

We have just come back off our hols, and I will say that everyone (barring fluffy in the pub) were all very good. On the beaches or woods if dogs were seen approaching then all dogs including ours were either called to heel or leads slipped on. Everyone saying the same sort of thing, dogs were friendly but they didn't want them being a nuisance to other dogs and people. It was actually a delight to be able to go out with the dogs in such a friendly relaxed atmosphere.

Where was this? I’m going there for my next hol