This is a new one for me!

[Hormonal Filly]

Yesterday I went for a walk with all 4 of our dogs, they’re working dogs and pretty well trained.

We walk up a stretch of road and there is 3 terriers I walk past which go crazy on a stone drive. Running up and down it, jumping at the gate. Sounding aggressive. They’ve spooked horses for years and the owners never gives a cr*p when a horse was refusing to go past or spooking half way up the road.

I was about to walk past with all 4 dogs on a lead (at heel) yesterday and one of mine (who’s been attacked on lead totally unprovoked by 2 dogs previously) can react and get scared. So we all heeled past and I was giving the nervous one bits of sausage as we walked past the driveway, on a public road.. the other side of the road to their gates. This distracts him and keeps his focus on me.

They all walked past lovely and he didn’t react, yay, but was tense. Then the window opens as I get past the house.. and a women’s shouting, don’t feed your dogs by my dogs! I said excuse me? Genuinely shocked and she said it again.

I said (in a calm tone) I’m on a public road.. she said yes but don’t feed your dogs doesn’t matter if it’s a public road. I said one of mine is scared and I’m distracting him from your dogs! I’m on a public road on the opposite side of the road. You need to train your dogs!

She then slammed her window.

What planet are some people on!

 

[Jenko109]

Wow. That is absolutely bonkers.

 

[Fluffypiglet]

Yesterday I went for a walk with all 4 of our dogs, they’re working dogs and pretty well trained.

We walk up a stretch of road and there is 3 terriers I walk past which go crazy on a stone drive. Running up and down it, jumping at the gate. Sounding aggressive. They’ve spooked horses for years and the owners never gives a cr*p when a horse was refusing to go past or spooking half way up the road.

I was about to walk past with all 4 dogs on a lead (at heel) yesterday and one of mine (who’s been attacked on lead totally unprovoked by 2 dogs previously) can react and get scared. So we all heeled past and I was giving the nervous one bits of sausage as we walked past the driveway, on a public road.. the other side of the road to their gates. This distracts him and keeps his focus on me.

They all walked past lovely and he didn’t react, yay, but was tense. Then the window opens as I get past the house.. and a women’s shouting, don’t feed your dogs by my dogs! I said excuse me? Genuinely shocked and she said it again.

I said (in a calm tone) I’m on a public road.. she said yes but don’t feed your dogs doesn’t matter if it’s a public road. I said one of mine is scared and I’m distracting him from your dogs! I’m on a public road on the opposite side of the road. You need to train your dogs!

She then slammed her window.

What planet are some people on!

Pop along to sit outside with a nice picnic for you and your dogs perhaps? Some people are just a whole new level of WTF!

 

[Hormonal Filly]

Pop along to sit outside with a nice picnic for you and your dogs perhaps? Some people are just a whole new level of WTF!

I was tempted to take their breakfast bowls there this morning!

I can kind of understand if I was feeding them a full meal outside her gates but walking past and feeding a bit of sausage to a reactive dog.. who is terrified of them and he did so great

 

[Titchy Pony]

Wow, that's weird! I assume the 3 terriers would be barking at the gates as you went past whether you were feeding yours or not. If other people are going to leave their dogs out to bark at the gate, I will use them as training opportunities (within reason). If other people are going past my gate, I will use them as training opportunities if I have the time or pop the dogs back inside.

 

[Hormonal Filly]

I assume the 3 terriers would be barking at the gates as you went past whether you were feeding yours or not.

Yes.. the terriers go crazy if it’s someone with a dog or without! Whether I gave treats to mine or not made no difference. They try to jump over the gate which makes even a non reactive dog a bit worried.