Dear neighbour, about your dog...

AylesburyDuck

Person_one wrote: »

Haven't you had some nightmares where your dog has got loose and you've had to chase him down the street, or he's bothered people and you've had to sort it though? I'm sure you've posted about stuff like that. Nobody's perfect, **** happens, I think I'd rather meet someone who gets it wrong and knows it and deals with it than someone as unbearably smug as whoever wrote that 'letter', especially with the b****y comments about the dog's appearance.

Not sure who you're ranting at, elsien never claimed to be perfect.
Chill pill needed mate!

Person_one

AylesburyDuck wrote: »

Not sure who you're ranting at, elsien never claimed to be perfect.
Chill pill needed mate!

I'm not having a go at Elsien, I'm stating my opinion about what she posted. Is that ok with you?

AylesburyDuck

Person_one wrote: »

I'm not having a go at Elsien, I'm stating my opinion about what she posted. Is that ok with you?

Maybe you need to re read what you wrote then, last time i looked opinions didnt come with snarky veiled personal attacks.

annandale

Yes elsien did say that it was copied from Facebook.

But someone posted as if it wasn't and that's why I posted what I did

Was responding to the poster mad spaniel

annandale

Person one didn't reference elsien in anything she posted above.

As for snarky veiled personal attacks, I wouldn't call it an attack but you posted on a thread saying don't you think annandales posting style is similar to the OPs?

When it wasn't. If you want to comment about being snarky maybe you should realise that lots of people on here spend time having digs at one another and you are as capable of that as anyone else.

Including myself because if someone gives it out to me, they'll get it back.

annandale

It's actually sad that someone can't post a lighthearted post without it descending into all out ridiculousness. I've lurked on these boards for a long time and there are numerous posters who used to post on this forum who don't anymore.

Totally get why. Probably 15 regular posters these days. No wonder

Pollycat

annandale wrote: »

It's actually sad that someone can't post a lighthearted post without it descending into all out ridiculousness. I've lurked on these boards for a long time and there are numerous posters who used to post on this forum who don't anymore.

Totally get why. Probably 15 regular posters these days. No wonder

Oh, I think Elsien - having had to deal with the exuberances and caprices of the wonderful Gitdog - is more than capable of handling dissing comments.

Robisere

I live in a community of Sheltered Housing, where all of us are elderly, frail, disabled or a combination of those conditions. Next door to us lives what was a very uncontrolled, yappy-noisy Jack Russell b i t c h, which used to go absolutely crazy up at the lounge window at anyone and anything that walked past. A few months ago she bit a delivery driver and her owner, a large but very disabled chap, was given a last warning. This resulted in him asking for help and I put him in touch with a dog trainer I know, as she was his only companion and we did not want to see her taken from him. Today she is exercised twice a day by volunteer dog walkers and has been given training to stop aggression. Across the road was another JR, a male dog, which was even worse, running around the Close late at night and barking its head off. The owners (a pair of drunkards) were also given a final warning and did not listen. They had the dog removed from them eventually. Of course they blamed all of us neighbours, actually threatened physical harm to a housebound old lady next door. Four of us younger and not so infirm men visited them and advised them against this. They left the community. They were not able to look after themselves properly, never mind that dog. I hope it now has a good home, it was a very young animal and I was promised that it would not be put down.

That's the difference: if you own a dog, it has to be properly cared for, properly trained, played with and exercised. I have had many dogs over the years, mostly German Shepherds. None have ever been a problem to other people or other dogs. Dogs need your time and your interest.

There are other dogs here, all well-behaved: our other neighbour, a divorced lady, has two West Highland terriers that are very well-behaved and a real credit to her. Everyone in the Close loves those dogs.

I feel for the author of that FB post; aside from the humour, there is the impression of someone absolutely fed up with someone who has no idea how to look after a dog. Bear in mind that the author has four dogs which they can control, because they look after them and have trained them correctly. There are certain people who should have to pass a test in order to be allowed to keep any sort of pet, from a goldfish to a St. Bernard. I only wish that my own state of health would allow me to keep another dog, but I could not walk with it and give it exercise.

minimad1970

annandale wrote: »

Yes elsien did say that it was copied from Facebook.

But someone posted as if it wasn't and that's why I posted what I did

Was responding to the poster mad spaniel

Fair enough, it's hard to know when you don't quote the post you're replying to.

Person_one

Pollycat wrote: »

Oh, I think Elsien - having had to deal with the exuberances and caprices of the wonderful Gitdog - is more than capable of handling dissing comments.

She hasn't had any though, has she? 🙄