Nowt so strange as (some) dog owners..

Nowt so strange as (some) dog owners..

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Jesus

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14,673 posts

188 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2017
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Took Leo out for a good walk today to a very large country park.
As is usual for this place, there were many others around even though it was heavily pissing it down...

And, as us usual, Leo was his happy sociable self, running around with the others and generally having a great time.
As we rounded a corner, up ahead of us was a woman with a dog off its lead (that's OFF its lead) with an upside down dunces hat around its neck.

With the conversation I had with the woman I can only assume the dunces cap had slipped from her head and inadvertently landed on her dog..

So, Leo wanders up to her dog and they start playing - bouncing around, running in circles - you know, having a great time.
Woman shouts at me to get Leo to stop and to move away - appears her dog has stitches in its tummy and isn't allowed to run around...
sooooo..... I looked at her with that 'not sure if serious' meme going through my head - and she starts getting quite abusive, has a good Anglo Saxon vocabulary and start waving her arms about.

With this, I whistle Leo over and off we trot around the next corner - to be met with a woman walking 6 lively dogs off the lead heading towards Mrs Grotbags... laugh

My point to all this is, why would you walk a dog with stitches, that shouldn't be running around, off its lead in a park frequented primarily by dogs running around?

Would you class Leo (as described above) as being 'uncontrolled' as she put it?

Roscco

276 posts

221 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2017
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Don't take this as the dick comment it sounds. But...... ANY dog off the lead is technically out of control.

Owning a Dobermann has got me pretty clued up on this stuff.

Does sound odd though.

Enjoy your walk and move on 😀


PistonBroker

2,406 posts

225 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2017
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Roscco said:
Don't take this as the dick comment it sounds. But...... ANY dog off the lead is technically out of control.
Agreed. Especially in the case of my Cocker/Lab hybrid!

In just over 3 years of dog ownership I have established that there's nowt as queer as other dog owners I'm afraid OP.

bexVN

14,682 posts

210 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2017
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Her dog should not have been off lead if recovering from surgery. She is risking her dog by doing so. Her vets would have told her this as well. I find this type of thing infuriating because guess who will be blamed when the wound doesn't heal/gets infected or worst case breakdown and opens up.

So no you did nothing wrong. Completely her ignorance.

garythesign

2,056 posts

87 months

Wednesday 22nd March 2017
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My dog had very minor surgery today.

For the next few days she will be walked on the lead.

The lady you met was not taking the best care of her dog

Adenauer

18,564 posts

235 months

Thursday 23rd March 2017
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Common sense, she doesn't have any.

Buzz84

1,138 posts

148 months

Thursday 23rd March 2017
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She will also most likely have been told to keep the stitches and dressings dry too I'd have thought.

I have a Jack Russel cross and she's as good as gold off lead, that is until she sees a person or another dog, then she turns into a heat seeking missile with no chance of recovery. (She's only greeting them, but not everyone likes that amount of energy)

Edited by Buzz84 on Thursday 23 March 10:44

imagineifyeswill

1,224 posts

165 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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Yes we have the same problem with our Staffie, most docile dog you could ever find but insists on running across the park to meet every other dog in sight purely to play.

tonyb1968

1,156 posts

145 months

Monday 27th March 2017
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Why would anyone take a dog with stitches in their stomach for a walk? I would have though that rest and recovery and light exercise (round the block on lead to stop getting dirt in there) would have been advised by the vet?

Had my new boy Max off his lead for the first time last week, hes only 15 weeks old but he follows Lottie around and he actually came back to me, was impressed with him smile Lottie will come when called or when she sees another dog as she doesn't get on too well with them for some unknown reason but plays all the time with Max (play fighting), different story and a little off topic.

I dont think you have done anything wrong OP, my dog training class say that the only way dogs should meet are off lead and not on lead, this ensures that they don't try to cross roads when they see another dog on the other side, makes sense to me.

Adz The Rat

13,947 posts

208 months

Tuesday 28th March 2017
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imagineifyeswill said:
Yes we have the same problem with our Staffie, most docile dog you could ever find but insists on running across the park to meet every other dog in sight purely to play.
Ours does the same, just a smiling stupid dog running like mad with no chance of return.

Autopilot

1,298 posts

183 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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Roscco said:
Don't take this as the dick comment it sounds. But...... ANY dog off the lead is technically out of control.

Owning a Dobermann has got me pretty clued up on this stuff.

Does sound odd though.

Enjoy your walk and move on ??
When one of my dogs had an op, not only was he limited to short on-lead walks, he had to have a short lead on in the house too to stop him tearing about!

He is well trained though so will disagree that he's not out of control when off lead, he does exactly as he's told and under any circumstances. I still wouldn't have him off lead post-op though!

robbocop33

1,184 posts

106 months

Monday 3rd April 2017
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Here's an interesting one,my misses(me not so much) is a great believer in letting dogs be free and play together,and in 30 years of dog ownership we've never had a problem.Dogs will invariable sniff,say mmm not too keen,have a bark and thats the end of it,or they play..
Yes we have to put up with 'very' rarely someone saying the dog should be on a lead,and usually our dog and their dog will be merrily playing around!
Now,here's a pretty horrific thing that really put me off leads,particularly those extendable leads.This nutter with a Husky(ours is a Husky too)has one of those extendable leads,and the dog shoots away,pulls him off his feet,lead whips towards me,i duck,and so it goes on for a very uncomfortable chat,anyway,one day the dog is running rings round him as usual,his lead whips across,wraps around 'my' dogs back leg,the nylon cutting in,my dog howling trying to pull one way,his dog pulling every which wayat the other end of the lead,,and i just couldn't set my dog free,how in the hell her leg didn't break or get twisted i'll never know!
Believe it or not he then got 'another' husky and i saw him in the distance the other day,two huskies pulling him every way,twisting about,pulling him around everywhere,leads getting longer,shorter,its just utter chaos and i didn't even go across to him incase it happened again,just a nightmare!

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 7th April 2017
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Seems a lot of dog owners are unable to read their own dogs let alone other dogs.

I encountered a chap whilst walking my bh akita, mine was on the lead, his 3 boxers weren't, they spotted my dog and started running towards her . Jovial idiot announced they only want to "play".

They were clearly in pack attack mode and were not wanting to play. In the few seconds it for them to arrive I contemplated the options and decided the only reasonable thing I could do was to let her off the lead so she could defend herself if needed.

As expected boxers hackles were up, teeth glaring, and they attacked her, despite fearing the worst it turned out that my Akita could handle herself admirably was a bit like one of those youtube videos, 3 fat blokes vs a MMA fighter.

Its well worth looking into the research of Tina Bloom, a renowned breeder and trainer of Dobermanns, She did some research recognising emotions in dogs.



opieoilman

4,408 posts

235 months

Friday 7th April 2017
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One of my Jack Russells was attacked by a spaniel, it had just gone for a dog in front of us and before I could get him back to me, the spaniel went for him. Other JR (younger, bigger) was in the bushes, but came out and stood up for his mate. He's a tough little dog and the spaniel came off worse. I got them apart and told the owner to keep his dog on a lead if it was going to attack other dogs. He then told me it wasn't fair as how was his spaniel supposed to know we had another JR. I had to walk away, I don't know how you can reason with someone like that.

A week later, we were in the same place and saw a little brown spaniel coming towards us, but there are a few that are walked there and most of them are friendly, a couple are good mates with my dogs. I only saw the owner and realised it was the problem one as the dog bit my older JR, tearing his ear. Same thing again, other JR comes out from the bushes and deals with the spaniel before I can get there. The spaniel owner and his wife just start screaming at us, again claiming their little angel had done nothing wrong, while blood dripped from my dog's ear.

I know my two are not angels, they are JRs after all, but they were completely innocent in this and I couldn't understand the reaction of the spaniel owner at all. Our younger JR can go for bigger dogs if they stand over him and he gets told off for it, I don't have a go at the owner of the bigger dog for having a bigger dog.