Goldenstar
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poor little chap .
Irresponsible Owners
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poor little chap .
maisie06
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Saw this on Facebook this evening, shared by a Facebook friend who's all for importing street dogs.
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A very honest advert..looking for the impossible that hopefully can be made possible.
I am looking for a forever home for gunner, an 11 month alapaha blue bulldog, please read before messaging
Gunner was due to be euthanised on the 07/01/2023, but I swept in 12 hours before and saved his life, he is an absolute goofball but very misunderstood, gunner has witnessed domestic, mental and psychical abuse in these 11 months.. which has impacted a gigantic part of his life ?
Gunner is a one persons dog, with slow and careful introductions he would happily live with a couple, he doesn’t like any man or anybody at first sight but time to decompress and them being around him whilst crated and muzzled he is fine after 24-48 hours.
Gunner is very reactive on walks and remains muzzled, I don’t know the extent of the abuse he’s received but he’s very alert and aware of people.
Gunner is a cuddle monster he loves his human, cuddles, kisses, belly tickles he’s a giant dope once you know him, and I’d trust him with me the world.
He loves dogs but is reactive whilst on walks- mainly to the humans.. he’s currently living with a female dog, he’s very submissive she will growl bark at his and he finds it funny and wants to play ?
He hasn’t been cat tested, but he is a softy for animals so would probably be a cats bestest friend ?
I am looking for an experienced female who wants a life long forever loving companion or a experienced couple who fully understand gunner isn’t gonna be your friend straight away but after time, decompression he is a Diamond? preferably who lives alone and with as minimal visitors as possible, gunner will need to be remained crated in arrival of visitors until he settles.
If you think you know, a loving home for gunner where he can thrive off some training and be your best friend please message me,
A very honest advert, I will offer full back up, to come here whenever needed, if it doesn’t work out, if you go away, holidays etc. he’s always welcome back! But due to having a baby in May, I won’t have the time for the training ??"
This is an accident waiting to happen if you ask me. The dog should have been PTS as originally planned and should not have been "rescued" without a suitable home being secured beforehand. To try and rehome a dog like this is utterly irresponsible.
Gunner would be better off PTS for his own sake as well as the fact he's a tradegy waiting to happen - WTF is this save everything at any cost mentality going to achieve??
CorvusCorax
'It's only a laugh, no harm done'
A warm fuzzy glow and lots of heart emojis
marmalade76
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And numerous virtual pats on the back from like-minded idiots.
fiwen30
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For a bit of lightheartedness - my friend’s Jack Russell would believe I am THE most irresponsible pseudo-owner, ever.
When I moved in 6 weeks ago, said Jack Russell was as round as a blimp on stick legs, with a layer of blubber that you could see wobble as he trotted around. I figured it was likely the 2 over-sized dog food meals he was getting each day, plus copious amounts of tit-bits off the table, and flatware to lick clean. Too much ‘love’.
The only stimulation he got was from eating, and it had created a food-obsessed menace.
As I get up before my friend for work, I’ve been charged with the dog’s breakfast, which has gradually been getting smaller from his gargantuan portion. He’s also been getting (*shock*) exercise!
Dog wholeheartedly believes he is being starved to death, and wishes to report me, but we are finally starting to see the glimpse of his waist coming back in, and you can feel his ribs if you press firmly. He’s actually a very smart little dog, under all the pudge.
When I moved in 6 weeks ago, said Jack Russell was as round as a blimp on stick legs, with a layer of blubber that you could see wobble as he trotted around. I figured it was likely the 2 over-sized dog food meals he was getting each day, plus copious amounts of tit-bits off the table, and flatware to lick clean. Too much ‘love’.
The only stimulation he got was from eating, and it had created a food-obsessed menace.
As I get up before my friend for work, I’ve been charged with the dog’s breakfast, which has gradually been getting smaller from his gargantuan portion. He’s also been getting (*shock*) exercise!
Dog wholeheartedly believes he is being starved to death, and wishes to report me, but we are finally starting to see the glimpse of his waist coming back in, and you can feel his ribs if you press firmly. He’s actually a very smart little dog, under all the pudge.
Smitty
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Poor you?. I am going in March when it's warmer .. .
Smitty
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Ha, ignore above, was meant as text to a friend ?
CorvusCorax
'It's only a laugh, no harm done'
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cocker-spaniel-needed-45-stitches-26054732
Very unfortunate but to be fair, the owner has admitted that his dog was off leash and the one who attacked was on leash and it would have not happened if both were leashed.
PSA even if your dog is 'friendly', if your dog can get within reach of another dog to the extent that it can be grabbed/attacked, it will not recall, then you have no control.
My own female will snap straight at another strange dog's face if it comes within striking distance because of repeat bad experiences/being rushed and scared by offleash dogs. Of course I mitigate this - she is either in a down position beside me or between my legs when another dog passes. If your dog comes that close to mine, despite me asking you to call your dog, your dog is too close and has gone out of its way to get to mine - that is a you problem, not a me problem.
Very unfortunate but to be fair, the owner has admitted that his dog was off leash and the one who attacked was on leash and it would have not happened if both were leashed.
PSA even if your dog is 'friendly', if your dog can get within reach of another dog to the extent that it can be grabbed/attacked, it will not recall, then you have no control.
My own female will snap straight at another strange dog's face if it comes within striking distance because of repeat bad experiences/being rushed and scared by offleash dogs. Of course I mitigate this - she is either in a down position beside me or between my legs when another dog passes. If your dog comes that close to mine, despite me asking you to call your dog, your dog is too close and has gone out of its way to get to mine - that is a you problem, not a me problem.
Escapade
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I try to avoid it happening but the way we get approached by loose dogs at times, I don't often feel the need to apologise when mine tells them to bugger off.
Initially thought I'd created a reactive dog but she just has low tolerance for rudeness
Initially thought I'd created a reactive dog but she just has low tolerance for rudeness
CorvusCorax
'It's only a laugh, no harm done'
I just don't want her to be in the mindset that she needs to act like that to make all other dogs disappear/go away from her or that she does not feel protected by/safe with me. Every time it happens, it can reinforce 'I did that, I made that dog go away by acting big and scary' and it just becomes a reinforced behaviour. People don't think about that sort of thing/the problems they can cause when they allow their FWENDLY dog to run over.
Goldenstar
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I just don’t know what it is with some people , they just can’t get it that if you go fifteen feet off the track and get your dogs in a sit with you between them and the track that means you don’t want their off lead dog running up to you friendly or not .
I don’t let my dogs interact with strange dogs I don‘t want them to know that’s a thing, they have dog friends but in my control it’s not an infection risk free for all .
I don’t let my dogs interact with strange dogs I don‘t want them to know that’s a thing, they have dog friends but in my control it’s not an infection risk free for all .
blackcob
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A truly friendly and socialised dog would, of course, look over and decide woah, miss parked-between-the-legs over there is looking a bit tense and spicy, I'll skip the greeting and let her be. The ones that go barrelling in aren't friendly, they're poorly trained, poorly socialised, rude arseholes and/or just thick. The owners won't see it, though.
Small dog can be standing there with one paw in the air, ears swivelling, whale eye all over the place, quivering on the spot ready to bolt - giving off every 'piss off and leave me alone' vibe he can - and when a dog ignores this, and gets rebuffed by me, the owners are all *surprised pikachu face*.
Small dog can be standing there with one paw in the air, ears swivelling, whale eye all over the place, quivering on the spot ready to bolt - giving off every 'piss off and leave me alone' vibe he can - and when a dog ignores this, and gets rebuffed by me, the owners are all *surprised pikachu face*.
CorvusCorax
'It's only a laugh, no harm done'
Oh and don't get me started on The Floor is Dogshit at the moment, I have to pick my way around the landmines trying to get out my own front gate and I've two pairs of boots laid up in the garage waiting to go crusty. I'm standing in other peoples' dogs mess as I am bending down to pick up after my own dogs. Lazy twats.
SilverLinings
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I can't decide whether people have got worse at picking up over the last couple of years, or if it's because there are loads of new ignorant dog owners because of the pandemic? I find it especially bizarre when the owner also has a small child with them at the time- I can't imagine they'd be overjoyed if their toddler stepped in it (or got it on their hands and became ill). And people who let their dog foul (and don't pick up) somewhere like someone else's doorstep, or right next to the drivers door of a car, or in the middle of someone else's drive/lawn definitely deserve to go to hell.
Kunoichi73
Beware... My Plants...
I don't think it's just dog owners. It's a general level of not giving a monkey's about their environment and the consequences of their actions on others, because someone else will clean up their mess! Today a bloke I work with was setting up some new equipment and he just dropped the cardboard boxes on the floor next to the bin and left them there! People in general are lazy and ignorant.
SilverLinings
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I think litter-dropping seems to have increased too which makes me think some people must be really stupid- do they not realise that the council pays for people to pick up the rubbish, so more rubbish to pick up equals a rise in YOUR (the litter dropper's) council tax! And regarding places where litter isn't collected (e.g. country lanes) why would anyone want to live in an environment that looks like a dump?!
cauda equina
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They probably don't live there and are just using the lane as a short cut home from Maccy Ds; so why wouldn't they chuck their wrappers/beer cans/bottle full of piss out of the window?
fiwen30
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I found a dog today. I was driving back to my friend’s house, and just pulling into the drive, when I saw a cavalier-type trotting down the pavement, unaccompanied.
Cue a hasty stop, a light, friendly voice, and it came trotting up wagging its tail - very friendly, and absolutely adorable, albeit enormously overweight. Collared and tagged, thankfully.
Bundled it into my friend’s porch while I grabbed her dog’s lead, and prepared for a trek back to wherever it came from.
Turns out, where it came from was the house just around the corner, on the next street. The front door was left ajar, no gate to secure the front garden, and fresh dog poo on the pavement in front of the house.
I guess they’re the type of people who just open the door and turf the dog out into the street for a bit. I didn’t bother knocking or calling out to get into a conversation that wouldn’t have gone down well - I just shoved the dog back into the house, and firmly closed the door behind it.
If I had been an unscrupulous person, that friendly little thing would’ve been easily scooped up and taken to god knows what fate.
Cue a hasty stop, a light, friendly voice, and it came trotting up wagging its tail - very friendly, and absolutely adorable, albeit enormously overweight. Collared and tagged, thankfully.
Bundled it into my friend’s porch while I grabbed her dog’s lead, and prepared for a trek back to wherever it came from.
Turns out, where it came from was the house just around the corner, on the next street. The front door was left ajar, no gate to secure the front garden, and fresh dog poo on the pavement in front of the house.
I guess they’re the type of people who just open the door and turf the dog out into the street for a bit. I didn’t bother knocking or calling out to get into a conversation that wouldn’t have gone down well - I just shoved the dog back into the house, and firmly closed the door behind it.
If I had been an unscrupulous person, that friendly little thing would’ve been easily scooped up and taken to god knows what fate.
smolmaus
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I had a similar thing happen a few years ago with a tiny Yorkie with a cone on. He was trying to board a bus/ get squashed by a bus/ attack the bus? I'm not sure what his plan was. I managed to lure him away from the road so the bus driver could move but he wouldn't come closer than 6ft so I was starting to panic a bit when a door on the next street opened and someone just called him in. Letting your dog roam about is bad enough but 30ft from a main road with a cone on took the biscuit ? the man just waved at me and closed the door again. I hadn't remembered that in ages, it feels like a weird dream ?
cauda equina
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to bothSome people don't deserve to have dogs
CorvusCorax
'It's only a laugh, no harm done'
Yeah there's a communal Yorkie in my street. I had to put plastic mesh all over my front gates as he would walk up the lane and I'd find him in the garden when my female was in season.
Tiddlypom
Carries on creakily
I reckon that we're fairly responsible owners, or at least we try to be.
Our front gates are 4' high and mesh reinforced, and we keep the gates padlocked. There is a post box and door bell outside the gates. No need for any postman or delivery driver to come into contact with our 12" tall JRT.
So why did the relief postman think that it was ok to lean right over the gate to fondle a barking JRT on the ears just now ?
? She was fine, as it happens, but if I leant over a stranger's gate to pat their dog without permission and got bitten, I'd only have myself to blame.
Our front gates are 4' high and mesh reinforced, and we keep the gates padlocked. There is a post box and door bell outside the gates. No need for any postman or delivery driver to come into contact with our 12" tall JRT.
So why did the relief postman think that it was ok to lean right over the gate to fondle a barking JRT on the ears just now ?
? She was fine, as it happens, but if I leant over a stranger's gate to pat their dog without permission and got bitten, I'd only have myself to blame.
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fiwen30
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I reckon that we're fairly responsible owners, or at least we try to be.
Our front gates are 4' high and mesh reinforced, and we keep the gates padlocked. There is a post box and door bell outside the gates. No need for any postman or delivery driver to come into contact with our 12" tall JRT.
So why did the relief postman it ok to lean right over the gate to fondle a barking JRT on the ears just now ?
That’s a postman with more fingers than sense!
ponyparty
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...eIfm_KY37lB9uNCnzhBicQDbzA#Echobox=1674737718
Anyone else read this and just think, silly woman? ?? And also, well done Guardian for essentially promoting buying a dog off gumtree and not seeking professional help when it turns out to have behavioural issues?
Anyone else read this and just think, silly woman? ??
And also, well done Guardian for essentially promoting buying a dog off gumtree and not seeking professional help when it turns out to have behavioural issues?
CorvusCorax
'It's only a laugh, no harm done'
If she wrote: 'I bought this car off a bloke on Gumtree and it doesn't work as well as one I would have bought from an authorised outlet with warranty and a guarantee, and I'm not taking it to the mechanic'
No paper would accept her whimsical piece.
They would just think she was daft.
No paper would accept her whimsical piece.
They would just think she was daft.
smolmaus
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...eIfm_KY37lB9uNCnzhBicQDbzA#Echobox=1674737718
Anyone else read this and just think, silly woman? ??
You couldn't write better bait for the comments section if you tried. Or maybe... she did... ?
Caol Ila
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Zoe Williams is a regular Guardian columnist, who's pieces I generally like, but this was a swing and a miss. She came off as a bit of an idiot.
Clodagh
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I thought ‘and she’s proud of that’ ?https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...eIfm_KY37lB9uNCnzhBicQDbzA#Echobox=1674737718
Anyone else read this and just think, silly woman? ??
Arzada
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Yet another child killed by a dog https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-64476833
Caol Ila
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Today's win goes to.........
The greyhound owner in Mugdock Park who's off-lead greyhound shot towards the horses at full speed, then proceeded to run back and forth along the line of three horses, barking. Owner stood about 20m away with her arms outstretched, like she was pretending to be an airplane, screaming, "Mica!! Mica!! Come!!!" Mica did not come. Owner screamed, "She's just a puppy." I was tempted to yell back, "Then she should be on a f&*97cking lead, you f&(7cking spanner!" I did not. Mica ran right at the heels of the other two horses, but not Fin. Our hacking buddies are pretty tolerant lads and just stood there, but Fin might have thrown a kick had the dog gotten within range. He's done it before. Not hit anything yet but there's always a first time.
This went on for about five minutes, then we decided to keep walking slowly away, in the opposite direction of the owner, towards the park gate. The dog followed us until we got to the gate, then it decided to run back to its owner, who was well out of sight (but not sound!) at this point. Nothing was stopping it from running out onto the road had it continued to follow the horses. Owner was about 50m away and around a corner.
The greyhound owner in Mugdock Park who's off-lead greyhound shot towards the horses at full speed, then proceeded to run back and forth along the line of three horses, barking. Owner stood about 20m away with her arms outstretched, like she was pretending to be an airplane, screaming, "Mica!! Mica!! Come!!!" Mica did not come. Owner screamed, "She's just a puppy." I was tempted to yell back, "Then she should be on a f&*97cking lead, you f&(7cking spanner!" I did not. Mica ran right at the heels of the other two horses, but not Fin. Our hacking buddies are pretty tolerant lads and just stood there, but Fin might have thrown a kick had the dog gotten within range. He's done it before. Not hit anything yet but there's always a first time.
This went on for about five minutes, then we decided to keep walking slowly away, in the opposite direction of the owner, towards the park gate. The dog followed us until we got to the gate, then it decided to run back to its owner, who was well out of sight (but not sound!) at this point. Nothing was stopping it from running out onto the road had it continued to follow the horses. Owner was about 50m away and around a corner.