Irresponsible Owners

Tiddlypom said:
Woman whinging on local Facebook page that she was asked by the manager to remove her (not an assistant) dog from the town’s Boots store where she was queuing up for a prescription. Asking for recommendations of pharmacies where she can bring her dog in with her.

Lots of support from the fur baby brigade, of course.

Just why would you think you are entitled to take your dog into a pharmacy of all places 🤷‍♀️.
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It is a very dog friendly town and I think that makes the fur baby brigade even more entitled than normal. It's still quite warm today, why not just leave your dog at home.
 
My local pharmacy encourages people to go in with their dogs. I was leaving mine outside the shop and got called in where they made a fuss of my dog and gave him treats. I’m constantly surprised with how dog friendly places have become.
 
Tiddlypom said:
Woman whinging on local Facebook page that she was asked by the manager to remove her (not an assistant) dog from the town’s Boots store where she was queuing up for a prescription. Asking for recommendations of pharmacies where she can bring her dog in with her.

Lots of support from the fur baby brigade, of course.

Just why would you think you are entitled to take your dog into a pharmacy of all places 🤷‍♀️.
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I'm away on my own with dog. I packed every sort of medication we were likely to need, plus our prescription meds, but obviously I left the most important meds at home😬😬. Fortunately the tablets are now available in chemists so I headed to Boots in nearest town and stood hopefully outside the door clutching dog. No member of staff in view so after 15 mins I went in with dog fully expecting to be turfed out. Didn't happen and I got the tabs.

This is worse 😂😂: I am camping. I value my own space. I am probably taking up less than half of my pitch which seems to be encouraging people to cut across my pitch, straight past my door, to the loo block.

I have tried Oh Hello, do come in, a couple of times but a classic a few mins ago was when a woman walked straight past my door with about 1' to spare, at which point I said Oh Hello, but was backed up by terrier who, clearly as peed off as me, woke from his slumbers and shot out barking. She jumped in the air as he missed her by inches and she almost ran to get away whilst he had reached the full extent of his lead. She came back a different way, avoiding us by miles and not one single person has been cutting across since😁.

Get off my land 😄

But yes, very irresponsible as I made no attempt whatsoever to prevent or stop him!!
 
I actually thought of that today after years and years of camping. I have never been so intruded on before. Understandable to a degree when it's a free for all with unmarked pitches, but when they are, grrrrr. I think dog picked up on my fury 😂
 
Smitty said:
I actually thought of that today after years and years of camping. I have never been so intruded on before. Understandable to a degree when it's a free for all with unmarked pitches, but when they are, grrrrr. I think dog picked up on my fury 😂
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We've never had a problem when we camp. We set up and clearly define our boundaries m
 
blackcob said:
Eventful walks continue. Yesterday a small terrier shot out of a housing estate and towards the main road, I tried whistling and calling him but he was in a flat out panicked bolt (and I had mine with me in any case). He made it to the road before I did but somehow the oncoming cars spotted him and stopped, some got out to try and go after him but he wasn't stopping for anyone. He was heading for the high street which was heaving with people so we figured he'd get stopped there, a few minutes later he passed me again running back in the direction he came from, again nobody managed to head him off. Sadly I see today that he's still missing despite having been headed for home last he was seen.
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Found today, thin and dehydrated but safe. Very lucky dog considering the recent temperatures.
 
Smitty said:
I travel light so no windbreak or anything like that. It is probably the way this particular site is laid out on reflection, but even so ...
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I use a windbreak 'garden' but still put the bunting line outside it to stop dogs being able to piss on it, I think people forget that you have to roll it up with your hands and put it in the car. 🤢

This is at dog events too, you'd hope people would be more conscientious. I have bunting in club colours and also some Belgian flags if I'm running the small dog. 😄
 
We had another one this week. Friend and I walking in NT woodland, dogs on lead, friends GSD carrying a ball as per usual. People coming towards us with 2 spaniels on flexis, so we stood just off the path and put our 2 in sit, friends dog dropped his ball between his front paws. Spaniel clocked it and looked interested, owner said "oh look he wants the ball". So would it be sensible to shorten/lock off flexi lead, apparently not, spaniel pulled across and got right in N's face, at which point he told it to go away ;). And then the spaniel owners got all huffy and aw never mind he doesn't want to share, idiots !
 
blackcob said:
I just don't understand how you could look at a dog like him and decide in any way that that is a reasonable thing to do (besides the fact that I know he's otherwise a saint).

I hope you know that when I see those outings posts on FB, in my head they are called 'N stands on things - with friends'. 😂
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Z actually went and put her paws up on the tree first on that occasion 😂
 
Oh god, it's me! I'm nominating myself today. Clipping Ivy's dew claws and for the first time properly cut the quick. I've ever so slightly nicked one before but this was the first proper cut. Que GSOD directly into my ear and styptic powder flying everywhere across the kitchen.

I think she was actually less traumatised than me. She kept offering me a paw for another biscuit.

We still need to do the other dew claw 😭 😭
 
Not irresponsible but kind of annoying... OH and I discussed hand feeding Ivy as I've got the Total Recall book out again and it mentions this for dogs who are 'Absconders' and I know that some on here do it. Ivy isn't an absconder but I am 100% this is because of the long line. Especially since the move to the countryside. We had a big chat about it and gave it a go starting with her dinner last night. Mainly what we learned is that suddenly she no longer cared to hassle us about dinner if we were sitting on a bench overlooking the common. A useful lesson in how food value changes with distraction I think!

Anyway, literally the first thing OH says to me this morning... "I've given Ivy her breakfast" (I would put a facepalm emoji here but am on laptop and all the buttons have gone!)
 
blackcob said:
OH might need putting on a lightweight house line while he’s still learning.
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Haha! Yes maybe.

He's so good at sticking to routines/habits, I wish I could do it because I'm pants at sticking to things consistently and once he gets going he's really great with things like that. Change on the other hand... a little trickier!
 
SaddlePsych'D said:
Oh god, it's me! I'm nominating myself today. Clipping Ivy's dew claws and for the first time properly cut the quick. I've ever so slightly nicked one before but this was the first proper cut. Que GSOD directly into my ear and styptic powder flying everywhere across the kitchen.

I think she was actually less traumatised than me. She kept offering me a paw for another biscuit.

We still need to do the other dew claw 😭 😭
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We had one brought into the vets where I work a few months back. Owner had been clipping claws and ended up with a bloodbath. He rushed in without an appointment in an absolute panic, with his dog wrapped in a blanket. He put the dog down and dog proceeded to walk all round reception area dotting blood everywhere. His poor owner (who is an excellent client and very good owner) was virtually in tears, he felt so bad about it. Dog was entirely unconcerned, and was soon sorted out.
Owner now brings dog in for regular nail clips!
 
Landcruiser said:
We had one brought into the vets where I work a few months back. Owner had been clipping claws and ended up with a bloodbath. He rushed in without an appointment in an absolute panic, with his dog wrapped in a blanket. He put the dog down and dog proceeded to walk all round reception area dotting blood everywhere. His poor owner (who is an excellent client and very good owner) was virtually in tears, he felt so bad about it. Dog was entirely unconcerned, and was soon sorted out.
Owner now brings dog in for regular nail clips!
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Genuinely not sure I can bring myself to do the other one so we might be bringing her into the vets for that. I Dremel/grind all the others but tried doing that to a few claw and she got properly cross with me so stuck with clipping those.
 
Last night I saw another torch coming in my direction last night and called out 'Have you got a dog?'
'Yes but he's fine'
'Mine is not'
And then there was a very large GSD on top of us.
Nothing happened as I had a good hold on her, while it sniffed all over her, apart from a bit of barking when it moved off again.
Got an 'Oh I didn't think there would be anybody else about at this time of night' - I walk every night at that time and have never seen them before.
But Christ me, if you like your dog, why would you have it off leash, miles away from you in the dark, especially in a new area?!
 
Seen on facebook (and roughly translated from French): "Hi, we have a 2.5 month old malinois puppy. She loves us and greets us happily every morning and sometimes through the day. But she also bites us. Why does she do this and how can we stop her doing this?"

Head hits desk... Please send the puppy back to her breeder and get a cuddly toy instead. No living being should have to put up with that amount of unpreparedness? plain stupidity? cruelty by entitlement?
 
This is third hand but 😳 enough to be passed on.
A man I work with on the shoots has his granddaughter living with him. She’s a wrong ‘un.
She has just bought a very large dog from a Romanian ‘rescue’. It’s very large indeed. She’s going to use it for breeding to make money. She has a drug habit to support.
It attacked her partner (tbh not an enormous tragedy I gather). They took it to the vets to be PTS but they wouldn’t do it as it’s not in her name. She’s decided to keep it. It’s muzzled out the house but not in. They don’t walk it (she can’t hold it), it’s not shut away when people come. Apparently it’s as tall as to tower over a seated person.
What could possibly go wrong?
 
blackcob said:
The most annoying bit of the recent heatwave was not having our usual exclusive late evening use of the park. I wanted to stamp my feet and tell them I'd earned it for being there at 11pm in all weathers and seasons. 😅
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Likewise but early morning - dog walkers, joggers and horse riders all appearing at my usual nice quiet walking time. Subconscious petulance was definitely my vibe 😂.

I did also have one particularly dozy horse rider who we me at an unfortunate place - at the junction where two tracks meet at an angle, and I hadn't seen her over the 6' block of ferns but she should certainly have been able to see me. She then decided to launch into gallop just as she emerged in front of us, and although Mr kelp was only about 3m in front of me I didn't have time to grab him or even recall, so it was just a bellow "down!" and hope job. Fortunately he was a good egg and complied rather than thinking it was jolly larks to take chase, but jeepers I could do without that kind of adrenaline spike that early in the day.
 
Walking the boys down the lane behind the houses to the park this evening, a guy with another springer was going the other way. My 2 were keen to say hello to his but they shouldn't think they are allowed to say hello to every other dog. Bloke with a beagle on the lead, also going into the park, was about to overtake me but decided to allow his growling dog to approach mine! Utter numpty! I fear I used harsh words 'Don't allow your growling dog to approach mine, that's really inappropriate, keep walking!' Harsh, I know! He muttered something and walked on. But, ffs, have a brain! His dog stayed on the lead the whole way round, we avoided him. Boys are good at staying close.
 
Me🙄. I have been on my last legs all week with diverticulitis so dog has had one short walk and rest of his time has been spent lying on my bed so that I can keep him company 🙄

I ventured out today as I needed to pick up a sale item ordered online from a shop, speak to my garage at end of road and combine it with walking him.

Everything accomplished, I nipped into Jollys with him to get him some lamb braids to make up for his crap life a bit, and the little sod cocked his leg on the corner of a pallet.

I could have died. I apologised, offered to clean up and I honestly think nobody believed me when I said it was the first time in his 11 years he had done something so antisocial.
 
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