Why are people such *@$$*&@**s !!?

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Every morning there is a lady who walks through our garden up the bridlepath. she walks in a very energetic/aggressive manner.

Recently she has taken to bringing some black box thingy which she points at the dogs.

This morning she has accused Bear of biting her. She pulled down her pants and bared her arse to show me (I asked her to please keep her clothes on) and I couldn't really see anything.

The thing is that she will now go back home and write a letter to the council claiming that Bear is dangerous and aggressive.

He is an 8 month old puppy who when someone repeatedly points something at him morning after morning thinks it is some sort of game. He is not aggressive in the slightest. He does play and will have his mouth open when doing so but he has NEVER made any attempt to bite anyone or animal.

I'm just fed up with people who want to make trouble.

I appreciate that he is a big dog (40kg already) and that he must look intimidating when he runs at speed towards you, hackles raised but tail wagging. He is a GSD for anyone who doesn't know him. But he is only 8 months old and totally non aggressive.

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Now I've just got to wait for the backlash that will come from it.

Sorry, pointless post really as there is nothing anyone can do.
 
If I had a path through my garden I would fence it off.

I know what you mean though, I was accused of deliberately putting nasty horses in a filed with a footpath through it. Nothing ever came of it, the horses are all friendly. I corridored off the footpath and now have no worries.
 
How b****y annoying. If he was a labrador bet she wouldn't bother. However, she could cause you problems so I think you need to be prepared. I am sure your trainer at the dog club, and Mort would write "character references" if need be . Is there any way at all you can divert the footpath, or fence it off in some way so the dogs can't get to it. I know my lot would take exception to someone walking through our garden, and if this stupid woman is threatening him with something then don't blame him for barking at her. I hope she calms down and thinks better of taking things further but unfortunately suspect this won't happen
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Ah, welcome to the world of owning a big dog of German extraction (bloody hell, Bodo is only 38kgs!!!).
If anything happenes, be assured it was your dog that did it.

My dogs are pretty territorial - Bodo took huge exception to someone walking up to me suddenly with a 'sausage' toy in his raised hand.
If she is walking through your garden and pointing what I presume is a sonic anti-dog device then sorry, she can't complain - she needs to PROVE it was your dog and that he bit her - the skin isn't broken, there is no way to match his teeth/mouth size to the mark and there is no pictorial/video/eyewitnees evidence.

The best way to do it, as I have discovered over the last squillion years, it to make damned sure they CAN'T be blamed for anything.
My dogs are fenced in, in plain few of myself when I am at home, when I am out they are in a secure run with padlocks.
When we are walking they are either on a lead or with Bodo, off lead walking to heel or within a certain radius, they never leave my sight.

If they need to hoon about they do so in our field at home or in a patch of woodland around the house.

I live in the middle of sheep country so I have to be super careful. I have already rung a farmer about a dead sheep to tell him that it was there and that it wasn't us!!!
 
We have 2 rights of way. 1 goes through the fields - we have fenced this off and use it as our access path to the fields. The other is a bridlepath and goes through our garden and up our drive. It is not possible to fence this off.

Bear does not have a problem with anybody walking through. He makes noise but that is it. We have had 3 people scared of big dogs to the business who have no problem with him and he has changed the opinions of some of our other clients on GSD's as he is so gentle.

IF people walk through normally and ignore the dogs they are not a problem.

MM - Mort is too busy but Sue has given me someone else's number - Emma collins. She is a trainer and a behaviourist. Whilst Sue is willing to give me a character reference it could be argued that she has a relationship with the dog so we will get someone totally independent to come in and see what they think.

HH - we do have CCTV cameras, but some of the time she is out of view. However they do not show any sign of a bite.
 
I would happily give him a character reference myself but don't really carry much clout anymore, quite a while since I showed or judged. I can give you the name of a local breeder and Ch show judge who might help if need be or a vet is always a good one, or maybe dog warden. Hope it won't come to any of this .
 
thats awful!
I hope she doesnt do anything about it (stupid woman!)

Sorry cant give much advice/help, but just a supportive stupid woman back up group
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I don't think she can do anything about it. I am pretty sure that a dog has to leave its own boundary and go onto a highway to attack for action to be taken. I realise the bridleway is a highway but it is within your curtiledge. She would also have to have photographic evidence, witness or doctors report to prove that he bit her.

Next time she comes through tell she's lucky there isn't a herd of cows on the bridleway
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Can you have her for indecent exposure, waving her bottom at you?! She doesn't sound right in the head quite frankly!
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It doesn't sound as though she has any 'proof' of what she claims - no marks on her bottom (how delightful) and you have the CCTV footage as well. Not a nice thing for you to deal with though
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Are you SURE he didn't bite her? I know as owners we are all loathe to believe our dogs would bite but sometimes an instnct that we can't explain takes over and they can act out of character. I'm saying this as I had a confrontation with a woman at the local rec when I was with a child who has special needs. He was just doing his normal running in circles when a little terrier came running up, stopped, barked a couple of times then ran up behind him and nipped the back of his leg. I shooed the dog away but the owner said 'he won't bite'. I said 'he just did' and she got really defensive and replied 'what are you on about, he wouldn't do that'. Well he did and I saw it but she wouldn't have it and I wondered if the dog perhaps sensed the child was different.

As this woman was so keen to bare her bum it could be that she was 'different' too?
 
I hope you get this sorted as soon as possible and it really isn't fair that the people who is the most afraid of dogs, usually does things that makes it more likely to trigger a reaction in dogs.

I "met" a man at a walk once that stopped and started screaming and waving his arms like a windmill when he saw my dogs sitting at my side, they of course thought he was completely mad and began barking to perhaps scare him away/alert me about that there was a mad man in front of us (as if I hadn't noticed), which made the man scream to me that I shouldn't be allowed to own dogs if I couldn't control them (they were still sitting at my side)...



I know it's no proof of that nothing can have happened, since she some of the time was out of view, but maybe the CCTV can be seen as showing an idea about how he normally reacts to people passing by/a little piece of evidence to determine how likely it is that what she said happened actually did happened?


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There is nothing the police can do, they may have a word to u, and themn u can put your side forward, as MM suggests tell them u take him to training and u are a responsible owner, but she does antagonise, even though u are certain he did nothing, she is a barmy arse flashing b!tch that torments him
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