Was I being a grump?

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Sandstone1 said:
I have found out she was a dog walker. I have no problem with them as long as they can control their dogs and do not walk too many. 6 dogs you cant control is too many.
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I agree that 6 dogs is too many (although her insurance may well allow for 6). 5 is my maximum and they are all great, well behaved dogs.

If all 6 (or 7) were genuinely having a pop then it’s worth having a chat with the dog warden (so at least the woman will have some official input in to her business).

Reflecting on your original post, I think it’s fair to say that if you’d written that she had six large reactive dogs - then responses would have been different (mine included).
 
Sandstone1 said:
Always surprises me how little dogs get away with being rude bad mannered little buggers. If my big dogs behaved like that I would be in trouble.
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For some it does come with the territory. Surprisingly some smaller breeds just are more aggressive (unruly or feisty are perhaps better words). Larger dogs, on the whole, are steadier.
 
I think it's much, much more likely that what you said made her feel on the defensive, and went home grumpily thinking that you're a busybody who gave unsolicited advice, rather than that she went home, and thought "Maybe I do need to change something".
If so, all it resulted in is that you're here asking if you acted as a grump, and she's probably at home feeling grumpy but not changing anything.
 
Sandstone1 said:
I probably did not explain it very well. My dogs were under control. On leads, looking at me. My point is these dogs were really aggressive. Not just a bit gobby. She was struggling to hold them. Some of them on those double lead things. My worry was if they had got loose which they nearly did they were intent at getting to mine. The dangerous dogs act says that you only have to think dogs are a danger.
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Oh stop it. You clearly didn't feel in danger or you would have been straight on the phone to the warden, and I suspect someone phoning to say 'Yes hello, 6 small dogs on the lead have just barked at me' would have been the day's joke for them.

For what it's worth most small dog's barks are worse than their bite - as someone upper thread said, it's 90% of the time Little Dog Syndrome and had one of your dogs got loose they probably would have run a mile. When you're struggling, you KNOW that you're struggling and you don't need some busy body stranger pointing out the very obvious to you.
 
If you are a paid professional walking too many dogs that are barely under control then don't be surprised that other dog walkers are alarmed.

As to little dogs running away, err no, many only small on the outside dogs would pile right on in given half a chance.

Has the OP hit a guilty nerve with some posters?
 
Tiddlypom said:
If you are a paid professional walking too many dogs that are barely under control then don't be surprised that other dog walkers are alarmed.

As to little dogs running away, err no, many only small on the outside dogs would pile right on in given half a chance.

Has the OP hit a guilty nerve with some posters?
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I suspect more it's OP has hit the nerve of many people who have struggled and had some stranger make a comment that has broken them that day. Where is that Be Kind movement when you need it?
 
IrishMilo said:
I suspect more it's OP has hit the nerve of many people who have struggled and had some stranger make a comment that has broken them that day. Where is that Be Kind movement when you need it?
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I will remember that if im ever walking 6 bigs dogs and the go for some little ankle bitter.
 
IrishMilo said:
Oh stop it. You clearly didn't feel in danger or you would have been straight on the phone to the warden, and I suspect someone phoning to say 'Yes hello, 6 small dogs on the lead have just barked at me' would have been the day's joke for them.

For what it's worth most small dog's barks are worse than their bite - as someone upper thread said, it's 90% of the time Little Dog Syndrome
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The owner of a Coton de Tulear thought it was funny when his bratty dog ran round and round my GSD barking, he laughed and said "He'll eat you for breakfast, Charlie". What a pratt.

The big girl (mastiff x) has had a small terrier circling, barking and trying to bite her legs. I told the owner to get his dog pronto.

There is nothing amusing about it.

Owners of large breeds recognise the behaviour for what it is. "Small dog syndrome" is an excuse given for aggressive or badly behaved small dogs.
 
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skinnydipper said:
The owner of a Coton de Tulear thought it was funny when his bratty dog ran round and round my GSD barking, he laughed and said "He'll eat you for breakfast, Charlie". What a pratt.

The big girl has had a small terrier circling, barking and trying to bite her legs. I told the owner to get his dog pronto.

There is nothing amusing about it.

Owners of large breeds recognise the behaviour for what it is. "Small dog syndrome" is an excuse given for aggressive or badly behaved small dogs.
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Both of these scenarios feature an off lead dog though.

This lady had the dogs on leads so I cannot see that it's comparable.
 
Sandstone1 said:
I probably did not explain it very well. My dogs were under control. On leads, looking at me. My point is these dogs were really aggressive. Not just a bit gobby. She was struggling to hold them. Some of them on those double lead things. My worry was if they had got loose which they nearly did they were intent at getting to mine. The dangerous dogs act says that you only have to think dogs are a danger.
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But since they didn't get loose, it's a game of what ifs. Personally I think it's dangerous for a society to have such an act which is based on individual human's subjective feelings, and not factual danger.
 
You were judgemental and unkind. Next time smile and say something nice if you must say something. Your two dogs were upset- how would you feel if someone said something along the lines of 'why on earth did you bring two dogs who are upset by noisy dogs out on a public walkway' ? Annoyed? That it was none of their business?
 
skinnydipper said:
The owner of a Coton de Tulear thought it was funny when his bratty dog ran round and round my GSD barking, he laughed and said "He'll eat you for breakfast, Charlie". What a pratt.

The big girl (mastiff x) has had a small terrier circling, barking and trying to bite her legs. I told the owner to get his dog pronto.

There is nothing amusing about it.

Owners of large breeds recognise the behaviour for what it is. "Small dog syndrome" is an excuse given for aggressive or badly behaved small dogs.
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I've been face to face with an adult loose St. Bernard trying to get to my 3 Lapphunds that I had dragged in behind me. I would've much preferred it had been a Coton de Tulear.

Idiot dog owners can own any breed, and dogs of any breed can behave as idiots, and when I'm unlucky enough to happen to encounter either of those 2 types of idiots, I prefer that it involves a dog of a size less capable of killing me or my dogs/dog.
 
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