Bloody dogs offlead!!!

Person_one

flashnazia wrote: »

I wonder what what the responses would be like if the op was talking about aggressive dogs running up to children that are minding their own business?

Eh? What's that got to do with anything?

meritaten

catkins wrote: »

I'm fuming. Just back from an awful walk. My dog is on lead in the park when a little westie runs over. I hold my dog so he doesn't jump at the little one and it promptly starts growling and snarling. I try and walk away and the westie comes with me and starts trying to bite my dog. As fast as I try and pull him away the dog follows snapping and biting. Luckily my dog is longhaired so the westie did not manage to get contact with skin but not for want of trying.


I look for the owner and a girl probably early 20's is ambling towards me. I call politely "can you come and get your dog as it doesn't seem to like mine" to which she shouts "It's not my dog, I'm just walking it"!!!! I don't care whose dog it is, it's attacking mine and I'm not happy. She eventually gets to me and that takes forever to put its lead on. I bet she would have moved herself quicker if my dog had retaliated. Some people think if it is a small dog it is ok.


Then walking back home along the pavement with my dog on lead a large dog comes running towards us and I can't even see an owner. I wonder if it has escaped from a house and then I hear the owner calling it. It starts jumping around my dog and my dog does a small growl because he didn't like it. I turn to walk back the way I came and the dog comes with us. The owner is still pathetically calling and I can see them but quite a distance (couldn't even see if it were a man or woman). I am struggling to walk the other way and drag my dog and this dog just stays with us. Eventually I speed up and manage to get round a corner and the dog doesn't follow. I shouted at the top of my voice "your bloody dog should be on a lead" - no reply.


I have yet again rung my local council and dog warden to be told YET AGAIN that it is not an offence to walk a dog off lead in my area even on a busy street!


It's not right that dog walks should be so stressful and if ever see the second dog owner again (never seen them before) I will give them a mouthful.

I cant believe this - in my area it IS an offence to walk dogs off lead! county bye-law I think.
but it IS an offence wherever you are, to not have your dog under control - and I think most courts would agree that is 'on lead'.

Person_one

meritaten wrote: »

I cant believe this - in my area it IS an offence to walk dogs off lead! county bye-law I think.
but it IS an offence wherever you are, to not have your dog under control - and I think most courts would agree that is 'on lead'.

You actually think it's illegal to walk a dog off the lead? Lot of criminals out there then!

silverwhistle

I like dogs and they normally seem to like me, although I probably have more of an issue with some dog owners.

So, for example, I've taken to including a little shovel in my football kit bag since large deposits on my team's pitch are rather unpleasant, and as a goalkeeper even more so.

I'm also not afraid off dogs, nor do I know anybody who needs a "20 yard bubble" around them, which seems something of a figment of somebody's imagination. Last Friday on a local station a vicious little staffie cross on a lead jumped up at me and nearly nipped me as I stood waiting for a train. Once again I blame the owners: I used to have great fun and games chasing a staffie round the horses paddock - not sure who enjoyed it most. But if I'm ever attacked seriously I'm not going to rely on the owner or reason with the dog..

Lequirk_2

It bothers me when dogs are allowed off-lead and are not under control.

My daughter allows our dog off-lead when she walks her in a local country park. Yes, our dog loves it. No, it has not led to any unfriendly or unfortunate incidents thus far.

I wish she wouldn't let her off, but my daughter says she doesn't let her off when others are around, and generally it is in a large empty field.

Our dog is crazily excitable and all sorts of scenarios run through my head about her running off, getting hurt, getting impregnated (another disagreement my daughter and i have about our dog is whether to have her 'done').

lostinrates

Lequirk wrote: »

It bothers me when dogs are allowed off-lead and are not under control.

My daughter allows our dog off-lead when she walks her in a local country park. Yes, our dog loves it. No, it has not led to any unfriendly or unfortunate incidents thus far.

I wish she wouldn't let her off, but my daughter says she doesn't let her off when others are around, and generally it is in a large empty field.

Our dog is crazily excitable and all sorts of scenarios run through my head about her running off, getting hurt, getting impregnated (another disagreement my daughter and i have about our dog is whether to have her 'done').

Walking a female dog in season or immediately afterward in public off lead Is not reasonable IMO. Personally my girls aren't taken off our own property when they are in season.

Person_one

lostinrates wrote: »

Walking a female dog in season or immediately afterward in public off lead Is not reasonable IMO. Personally my girls aren't taken off our own property when they are in season.

Surely that's a fake post, a perfect example of an irresponsible owner?

lostinrates

Person_one wrote: »

Surely that's a fake post, a perfect example of an irresponsible owner?

Who knows? . I'm just trying to picture how excitable my dogs might be if they never got off lead exercise. :rotfl: Pent up frustration leads to many behaviours. Of course lead walk is far better than no walk and in many cases the only possibility, but honestly, I wouldn't consider it ethical to own pet dogs that couldn't be dogs and demonstrate normal dog play, exercise and socialisation generally because of legislation.

Lequirk_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Walking a female dog in season or immediately afterward in public off lead Is not reasonable IMO. Personally my girls aren't taken off our own property when they are in season.

Well you might be able to spot the precise moment your female dogs come in to season and when they stop being in season, but i am not perhaps quite so well acquainted with our dogs nether regions. Accidents do happen.

Should we be aware of her being in season then we do not walk her, it would, i concur, be irresponsible to do so.

Lequirk_2

Person_one wrote: »

Surely that's a fake post, a perfect example of an irresponsible owner?

I do not understand your post. Please explain.