Irresponsible Owners

Had a great one yesterday.
In the pub. Finished eating paid getting ready to leave.

we walk past woman on her phone with large pointer at a table. Rocky is wagging his tail as usual but just walking toward the door.

pointer dog decides to walk towards us (to say hello I guess) at which point his lead catches two full pints of beer on the table and over they go.

woman is on her phone. Gets an absolute soaking. Looks up at me but I have my ‘don’t try and say that was my fault for walking past’ face on!

had a right good laugh when we got outside. Oh very dear!
 
Spotted whilst driving home today, by a pedestrian crossing.
Two huge bullies with cropped ears, lunging at a small bichon with the owner barely able to hold them back.
Bichon's crime was... walking past with it's owner. Owner had to scoop her dog up and and hightail it up the hill.
Spoke to the owner to check she was okay as I ran into her outside the local shop, thankfully she was.
I looked down the hill to see the bully owner letting them off the lead to run free around the playing fields, packed with people, kids and dogs of all shapes and sizes...
 
fiwen30 said:
‘Accidental litter’ of golden retriever/German Shepard pet animals - still charging £850 per pup, for a litter of 7. Not a word said about the health of either parent. No idea where people dream up these prices from. For a one-off, accidental litter, from uncertain quality of parentage, it should be more like £100 as a token.
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They will be German retrievers, or golden shepherds, before any of us know it!
 
Had a rubbish short walk just now. Guy walking two small poodle crosses, along the road, both off lead. They came from behind a parked car. I only saw one first of all. It started coming straight to my dog so I picked him up. Went down the footpath, guy carrying along road. Walked about 30 metres and put my dog down. Heard guy shouting the other dog belted up to my dog. My dog growled. Put my foot out to just keep his dog away and picked my dog up. He said don’t kick m dog, said I didn’t. Told him it’s illegal to walk a dog next to a road, off lead. He said it’s illegal to kick a dog. His dog still following me, jumping up, running around us. Told him I did not kick his ******g dog. His dog then ran off, across a road to a small field, when he saw another dog. Don’t feel well and didn’t need this ☹️
 
LR said:
Had a rubbish short walk just now. Guy walking two small poodle crosses, along the road, both off lead. They came from behind a parked car. I only saw one first of all. It started coming straight to my dog so I picked him up. Went down the footpath, guy carrying along road. Walked about 30 metres and put my dog down. Heard guy shouting the other dog belted up to my dog. My dog growled. Put my foot out to just keep his dog away and picked my dog up. He said don’t kick m dog, said I didn’t. Told him it’s illegal to walk a dog next to a road, off lead. He said it’s illegal to kick a dog. His dog still following me, jumping up, running around us. Told him I did not kick his ******g dog. His dog then ran off, across a road to a small field, when he saw another dog. Don’t feel well and didn’t need this ☹️
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I’d happily boot a dog that was bugging mine. Don’t feel bad.
 
I felt awful the other day, this woman walks multiple dogs, generally well behaved, she recently got a deerhound lurcher type 'rescue' puppy, it's already as large as my female, it does run up to people/dogs but it is a big soft thing, no harm in it, the boys don't care. Came gambolling over the other day, my female was right beside me, I was holding her in the collar and feeding her but the pup got too close and she snapped at it....but in fairness....she shouldn't **really** be letting it gallop up to strangers....I did tell mine off, as it was a witchy bitchy thing to do but I can understand why she did it, as it came right direct into her face.
 
I've just had some very distressing pictures come up on my Facebook of a 16 month labradoodle who has had to undergo surgery to repair his eyelid bitten through in two places by an off lead dog while he was out walking next to his owner on his lead. He has also suffered an ulcerated eye and the vet thinks he'll need help with anxiety following this as well. The owner of the attacking dog failed to stop the attack and wouldn't engage and just walked away. It makes me so angry and very sad that you can't seem to be able go for a walk these days without worrying what might be around the corner. This was not in an open space or park, they were walking along a pavement.
 
My last dog was one of lifes dog haters, he only became like this when attacked by another dog while he was on the lead when he was young, so not really his fault.
Every time I took him out it was a nightmare but in Ireland there seemed to be more dogs 'allowed to roam' so i started taking a walking stick with me to prevent dogs coming too close for their safety - now our present dogs are friendly i still do take the stick for my dogs protection, i perceive the roaming dogs as a threat now!
How things change, or is it my perception of risk, due to my dogs different nature.?

( be reassured my doghater dog had at least daily runs in secure private fields)
 
nagblagger said:
My last dog was one of lifes dog haters, he only became like this when attacked by another dog while he was on the lead when he was young, so not really his fault.
Every time I took him out it was a nightmare but in Ireland there seemed to be more dogs 'allowed to roam' so i started taking a walking stick with me to prevent dogs coming too close for their safety - now our present dogs are friendly i still do take the stick for my dogs protection, i perceive the roaming dogs as a threat now!
How things change, or is it my perception of risk, due to my dogs different nature.?

( be reassured my doghater dog had at least daily runs in secure private fields)
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I can hand on heart say that I rarely, really rarely, have a problem with other dogs. But it pays to be cautious, obviously.
 
Yesterday our 2 were on leads when a big young dog just rushed up to play 'rough and tumble' luckily with our lab x beagle so she was solid enough to roll over without getting hurt, the owner was calling his dog back to no avail. He did apologise, but when I commented about recall he did say his dog didn't have any, yet he was letting it run loose - aaahhh !!!
 
fiwen30 said:
‘Accidental litter’ of golden retriever/German Shepard pet animals - still charging £850 per pup, for a litter of 7. Not a word said about the health of either parent. No idea where people dream up these prices from. For a one-off, accidental litter, from uncertain quality of parentage, it should be more like £100 as a token.
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I can see that this might be a popular cross, possibly quite useful? I’d be looking for hipscores on that cross, tho.

CorvusCorax said:
I felt awful the other day, this woman walks multiple dogs, generally well behaved, she recently got a deerhound lurcher type 'rescue' puppy, it's already as large as my female, it does run up to people/dogs but it is a big soft thing, no harm in it, the boys don't care. Came gambolling over the other day, my female was right beside me, I was holding her in the collar and feeding her but the pup got too close and she snapped at it....but in fairness....she shouldn't **really** be letting it gallop up to strangers....I did tell mine off, as it was a witchy bitchy thing to do but I can understand why she did it, as it came right direct into her face.
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She’s lucky that’s all that happened. Zak would have gone to full fight mode if an unknown dog came raving up.

nagblagger said:
Yesterday our 2 were on leads when a big young dog just rushed up to play 'rough and tumble' luckily with our lab x beagle so she was solid enough to roll over without getting hurt, the owner was calling his dog back to no avail. He did apologise, but when I commented about recall he did say his dog didn't have any, yet he was letting it run loose - aaahhh !!!
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Bonkers. Goose is not yet trusted to be totally off lead yet, recall is essential for me, for the puppies’ sake and for ours, I don’t want anyone getting upset at them or them approaching unknown dogs.
 
Amymay said:
Without a doubt. And I do appreciate how lucky I am.
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We get a lot of free range farm collies. Fly from next door charges at us every day, occasionally she overcooks it and ends up the wrong side of enemy lines, there is then an embarrassed stand off until she can slink back to her yard ?
 
I am with Clodagh and Amymay, and for me I don’t think it’s location based. I can count on one hand the bad experiences we’ve had, and all have been at Luna, the on lead one. I do walk in popular dog walking areas, early mornings when we see no one, and afternoon/evenings when we meet all sorts.
 
We're now up to 5 dogs that I'll be avoiding in future and the fifth dog is a lab (along with three of the others, must be the dog of choice for numpties around here).

I was out walking our old girl in the woods and she was off lead, no issue because she's one of these mongrels that's just a great all-round family dog. Doesn't run off, only greets other dogs if permitted and generally just potters about close to whoever is walking her.
Suddenly heard thundering paws and this yellow lab came charging up the path towards us. I could hear the owner shouting it but couldn't see them.

At first it was being what I'd describe as just a little over the top but still polite enough but when our girl ignored it he started trying to mount her and was being pretty insistent. She came over to me because ilthe lab was a fair bit bigger than her (she's 16kg and sort of the size of a large collie) I was struggling to bend down to fend it off and our girl was starting to get vocal when the owner finally showed up. She was apologetic but didn't seem to see the problem because her dog was "learning". Our girl is used to young dogs and doesn't make a fuss but she was properly screaming at this lab and hiding behind me. She hasn't got an aggressive bone in her body and won't offer up a half decent correction. Not that the ordeal seemed to have any lasting effect on her, maybe she's just too old to be bothered.

To the untrained eye, the lab looked very much like a dog that wasn't just lacking recall but lacking in any foundation of recall and totally over-aroused by a simple walk. I'm trying to remember how long we waited until our dogs were allowed off lead but there was a lot of secure dog park visits and walks in very uninteresting places at first. Is that a step that other folk are missing out these days?
 
Labs are usually numerically the biggest breed registered (although I think I heard that frenchies were surpassing this recently?) so unfortunately they probably are prevelant re attacks/unfortunate incidents. A massive show idiot dog used to always go for one of ours back in the day. Drove me nuts.
 
We've been doing quite well with walks recently. A couple of times fending off incoming dogs with a No! but otherwise pretty good. Today was a different story. I didn’t handle things that well and let myself get frustrated which probably didn't help. I'm not sure what's wrong we me today.

First owner at least asked if I minded her taking her dog off lead before it ran straight at us. She informed beforehand he'd want to say hello. Tough I thought. At least they did go off in another direction. Next one I think did actually have recall but the ignorant chap walking it just didn't bother to use it despite mine and Ivy's clear signals we'd had enough of his dog. We had the joy of bumping into them again and he let it do the same thing. Then we had a point of around 3 or 4 dogs from different groups surrounding us and one owner getting all excited to say hello to Ivy who was having a 'statue' moment. I had to say 'actually can we just not?!' and a little 'ffs' slipped out because I just felt so bombarded and fed up. I thought we'd be safe in the field marked on lead dogs only this time of year (for the ground nesting birds), but apparently no one is paying attention to that bit.

On the plus side we saw an owner doing some nice long line training with their doodly, and a lab that was so focused on it's owner it brushed past Ivy up close but didn't pay her the slightest bit of attention. The owner had a magic stick I think! I wanted to call out how grateful I was as he was clearly doing this to pass us before letting his dog go on again.
 
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