skinnydipper
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Our Keeshond was very keen on letting you know that there was someone closing their garage door 10 houses up, or walking past-keen heating and not used as guard dogs for nothing.You are objecting to dogs that are shut inside their own house barking at your passing dog? Not even dogs running up to their fence or gate?
That’s a bit extreme, isn’t it? At least the dogs are inside. Ideally the indoor dogs wouldn’t bark at passers by, but in my view as a walker it is my job to reassure my dog that they are safe and to continue their walk.
There’s a few dogs that do that locally. We just deal with it, my dog is in no danger as the other dogs are shut in.
Any prizes for guessing which was was rumbling?
Just got back from a walk around our local park, which has a fairly big, fenced off children’s playground which dogs aren’t allowed into. A woman was inside the play area, and had left her dog outside the fence, off lead! The dog was harassing every other dog it came across including a poor woman with a staffy who was muzzled and on lead.
The woman was getting progressively more stressed too screaming at the dog to come back. I mean really?!
Just watching the dog house and a breeder has left a 6 week old frenchie at the vets as they aren’t prepared to pay any vet bills for him, they say they don’t have the money… he was the smallest poor little chap.. when you think how much breeders are asking for frenchies it’s ridiculous that the breeder wasn’t prepared to look after this little one. I’m not keen on frenchies but it’s made me so angry
He was adopted by a lovely couple and looks like he is doing well. I agree, makes me so mad when those of us who love our animals put ourselves in debt so they don’t do withoutThese are the sort of things that make me want an angry emoji on the like bar. Yes, I know that money can be very tight but apply for credit, borrow money, or whatever. Be prepared for these things!
I hope the poor puppy was signed over to the clinic and one of the staff nurses it back to health and has a nice pet. I've seen it happen plenty of times.
You would think that dumping an animal on your vet would seriously mess up the client/vet relationship, possibly to the extent that the vet would tell you to take your business elsewhere
My very obviously pregnant friend had a large doberman come right up to her and stick its head in her stomach today. The owner said 'don't worry he's just sniffy'. Didn't even have a lead on their person![]()
I don't get when people let their dogs round a corner without them or go into a part of the trail where they can't see. If my dog(s) got a but ahead I told them to wait or called them back. I always have to see what's ahead. Apparently that's not a common way of thinking.
I obviously can't comment on this dog, but I always use a slip or at least a half check when I take a young puppy out, it reduces the chance of them slipping the collar /harness if something spooks them.Not necessarily irresponsible but I saw a family today with a cocker spaniel who looked less than 6 months old , still very puppyish , he was bouncing around at the end of the lead but I was shocked to see he had a very thin slip lead similar to the ones used in showing and it was at the top of his neck which is very sensitive. He was being pulled around by a big man but I was tempted to say something was wasn’t brave enough. That sort of lead seemed very severe for a small young dog especially as the man wasn’t showing any sign of training him… perhaps I’m being too fluffy but it quite upset me
I obviously can't comment on this dog, but I always use a slip or at least a half check when I take a young puppy out, it reduces the chance of them slipping the collar /harness if something spooks them.