Securing your dog outside the shops

tankgirl1

I tie my pooch up occasionally - she is too embarrassing to do it regularly.... she yaps when left tied up - REALLY loud and high pitched!

But at least the YAPPING lets me know she is OK and where I left her!

Oliver14

vroombroom wrote: »

don't don't don't tie your dogs outside a shop!!!

What a silly over reactionary statement. A lot of it will depend on where you live and the type of area. I live in the country so frequently leave my dog outside the local shop as everyone knows me and my dogs. I would not leave my dog outside shops in an area I didn't know or in most cities.

There is way too much paranoia and scaremongering on this thread. It seems to me that in this modern world one thing seems to be in short supply. ' Common Sense'. Its a bit like some of the threads that appear in DT with the worst possible outcome on something but with a little common sense and assessing your own situation/location etc you can make an informed choice. Obviously if you're in an area rife with dog thefts dont do it but if like me you're in some backwater with a local shop you may wish to take the minimal risk/

I'm not saying dogs getting stolen doesn't happen I'm just saying put some perspective on it and just use a wee bit of common sense

There are a few products out there to secure dogs if your worried

http://www.dfordog.co.uk/store/pid-731/petloc_secure_locking_dog_lead.html

There is also a carrabina type device with a combination lock but i've only seen that available in the US

http://furlongspetsupply.com/dog_leash_lock.aspx (i'm not endorsing this business by the way)

vroombroom

why is it silly Oliver?? You wouldn't tie a toddler up outside a shop or leave a baby in a car seat when you pay for petrol so why do it to a dog?
I can speak personally about it - I made the very mistake 7 years ago by tying my dog outside the shop while I literally ran in to get something and its something I regret every day. My dog was 8 months at the time and got attacked by an offlead dog. As he was tethered he had no where to go.
I'll never forget hearing him scream so don't you dare tell me its sillyl If the OP wants to do it then its up to her, but where a crime that sounds as silly as dognapping on the rise, its not a risk I would ever take again.

Gemmy_2

Our Bruno is not so good with other dogs or people he doesn't know, so thats the major reason why we wouldn't tie him up outside a shop... but the fear of someone taking him (not that he'd let them LOL!) is far to much for me to bare.

I've only ever seen dogs just tied with their lead to a post.

Humphrey10

I've often left dogs tied up outside shops, I really don't see any great risk. Yes they could be hit by lighting or a meteor or run over or stolen, but those are vanishingly small risks in the places where the shops were, it really does depends on the area.

For example that article mention the dog loosing an eye - that attack was done by someone who was drunk during the day, so presumably it was in quite a rough area.

geri1965_2

I used to leave my dog outside the local shop in the village I grew up in with no worries whatsoever apart from her constant howling until I came out again! But a few years ago my stepdad left his dogs (Yorkie and Jack Russell) outside the same shop, and someone took Mitzi (the Jack Russell). Luckily a woman he knows saw it and came rushing in to tell him, they drove around the streets in her car and found the men and got her back. He thinks they took her because she looks pregnant (she's just tubby).

dizziblonde

I won't do it because I don't trust people not to let their kids approach dogs anyway and I don't want him bothered by kids grabbing at his neck and mauling him.

zaksmum

When I had my dogs tied up outside the shop only last week I heard kids screaming so rushed out to check on my dogs. They'd been sitting perfectly calm waiting for me while an Asian woman with her 3 kids were cowering and shrieking, pointing at the dogs.

It appeared she didn't want to pass them to go into the shop for whatever reason...there was plenty of room to pass but she was really frightened, and so were the dogs by the time she'd finished!

The security man held their leads for me so I could finish my shopping but it was quite a drama for nothing.

Beetlemama

I use to leave my JR x whippet outside shops and one day I came out and G is backed so far in to a corner she's almost got her back legs up the wall, while some weird man advances on her, hunched over, with his hand out making "soothing" noises. G had all her hair up and all her teeth out and was giving it Grrrrrrrr and still he was going to try and touch her....good plan. I didn't leave her again, it wasn't worth the risk.

After G, we had Sasha and we never left her anywhere, she just wasn't you're friendly kind people-dog. She was amazing with us and our baby (he's 8 now) but she had real issues with certain kinds of people, so we never risked her.

The girls, Dallas Grace and Jessie Jane, well we'd never leave them. Apart from being adorably stealable, a couple of years ago, a man in the next town came out of the shop to find the dog he had tied up outside had been beaten to death quickly and quietly by a gang of passing thugs. It didn't stand a chance.

This wasn't an inner city crime where a young man came out to find his staffie had been killed by a rival gang or by someone with a personal vendetta because of something he'd done, it was a pensioner and his old terrier that went to the same newsagents every morning to get a paper. Everything changed for us when we realised how evil people have become that they could beat a tethered animal to death just because it was sitting there.


Maybe reconsider?


My husband loved this btw:

gettingready wrote: »

...... there is my sweet Zara rounding up .... 2 Policemen :eek:.....without thinking I said - "Why you have your hands up? She is not shooting at you, she is barking ...."

gettingready

My husband loved this btw:

Quote:
Originally Posted by gettingready
...... there is my sweet Zara rounding up .... 2 Policemen :eek:.....without thinking I said - "Why you have your hands up? She is not shooting at you, she is barking ...."

I prefered it when they threatened to seize the dog - and I asked them how ? with you rhands up in the air?

LOL

Yeah yeah I know - I should not laugh, it was not funny....:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: