What do you use to tie your dog up outside?

Raggs_2

So glad that I lived in an enclosed community when I read things like that.

Louis get's tied up like most peoples, lead looped through the handle, then clipped onto the collar. His lead is a piece of rope that my dad spliced (it's easy to recognise a lot of the dogs he's trained, since a lot of the owners buy a lead off him).

catlou

Raggs wrote: »

So glad that I lived in an enclosed community when I read things like that.

Sorry to be thick........:o:o

But......What's an enclosed community?

Margaret_Skinner

PinkPeach wrote: »

I'd never tie my dog up outside a shop or anywhere due to the possibility of him being stolen. However, my belief on this was sadly reinforced due to a barbaric incident which occured in my area 2 years ago. Two teenagers took a collie from the owners garden, used wire to tie him to a lampost on a main road and set him alight. Thankfully the dog was saved and given vet treatment. There was an ongoing piece on the local news about it as people were understandably appalled. The dog is now ok thank god and I've no idea what happened to the low-lifes that did that. Despite this kind of thing being rare, I just dont think you can take the chance of leaving your dog as there are people that may have a cruel, spur of the moment thought and act upon it and I'd never forgive myself if I put my dog in such a vunerable situation. I'm not saying this is likely to happen if you do leave your dog but it's an example of a real danger that pet owners face. Sorry if my comment is a bit off track from the OP but I feel so strongly about this now that I had to mention it.

THAT is just the PITS! What kind of lives are these kids leading to be able to do things like that to a defenceless dog !!!!!!?? (scuse my French) I am NEVER tying Trooper up ever again!

(So happy the dog is okay though - great news)

Margaret_Skinner

Thanks for posting the pic gettingready! God knows what I wasn't doing right .......

By the way it's not a collar he's got on - a couple of folk who have seen that pic previously wondered what was wrong with him - it's his Frisbee - when he picks it up in his mouth sometimes it slips over his face like that and he wanders about innocently wondering why I'm giggling away at him - never fails to cheer me up!

(Completely ruins his street cred though .......)