The concept of cleaning up after the dog also difficult to grasp expect others to avoid it.
‘travellers’ are above the law anyway.
That has certainly increased tenfold since lockdown.
Same here, Keezoy.
That’s a might fine dog!
“There is no blanket law requiring dogs to be kept on a lead in all public spaces”
Correct !
It’s rare that dogs fight off the lead .
I didn’t know that. I knew they had to keep their dog “under control” in a public area (traffic, kids etc) but as anyone knows, no dog is ever 100% in your control
I agree but I had a bit of a surprise this afternoon. I was strolling down the Rig and I met three people with their dogs. No leads. One of them decided to have a barking fest at Max.
A collie at that. Max is a gentleman.
Oh, he’s just so adorable!
He is good…
This looks OK and might delay a thief long enough to prevent them.
Dageus and I were in the park a week ago and he was chasing his ball, This Staffie type dog came out of nowhere and attacked him, went straight for his throat and as Dageus had a mouthfull of ball he was unable to respond. I was near enough to stop it before it got bad and I grabbed the Staffies back legs and raised then high and he could no longer fight. It was several minutes before his owner sauntered into view and started to have a go at me for hurting her dog. WELL, you can imagine what followed from me. I none too politely told her what I thought of her, she shouldn’t be in charge of a dog, how did she expect to control it when it was out of her sight, she needed to go to training classes. ect ect. People had gathered by now and it seems this happens quite often, that made me even more furious. I quickly took a photo of her and another of her dog and told her I was reporting her to the Police, the Dog Warden, and the Council. I also told her it was going on Facebook so people could be warned about her. I didn’t put it Facebook it was just a treat. But I really hope she gets herself and her dog sorted out.
One thing did bother me though, she put it on it’s lead but the dog dug it’s heels in and would not go with her, she had to drag it??? Why??? Very strange.
Roxy I’m trying that on any dog that goes for mine! What a great move! I don’t know why her dog refused to go with her? Maybe it was fired up and wanted to keep on at Dageus. Some people are weird - when a dog attacked mine, the woman just sauntered over and said “oh he does that sometimes” and wandered off. Meanwhile, Diva Dog (who was only 10 months old) was screaming as her leg was bitten, and I was (ashamed to say) screaming and swearing like a common fishwife at the dog AND her, while trying to kick her dog off mine.
This is exactly the procedure I use when there is a dog fight, Roxy. It not only throws the dog off kilter, it keeps your hands from accidentally being bitten.
The other bit of advice I offer to people taking their dogs to dog parks or in a dog-busy area is to carry a squeezable bottle of ice-cold water. A heavy dousing in the face of the attacking dog usually shocks them into backing off.
Oh Dear Yes, Surfer I can’t stop laughing as what you say about the water apart from being true, also brought back a childhood memory. I was sat on the seat in garden watching two of my mum’s Old English Sheepdogs playing, suddenly it turned and became a fight. My gran heard the commotion and came out to the garden she had been peeling potatoes and she had grabbed the bowl and chucked the lot, all over my mother who had just bent over to stop the dogs, the water had stopped the fight but the vision of my mother who never had a hair out of place, was priceless. Dripping wet with potato peelings in her hair. She was not a happy bunny.
I thought they had to be on a lead walking along pavements beside a public road, Muddy?
Rare perhaps, but it does happen.
You’ve perhaps seen me write in the past about my beloved Izzy, who was heavily pregnant and enjoying a gentle stroll in the sunshine down the park with me, when a bloody evil Staffy - off lead - rushed at her and attacked her for no reason whatsoever. She didn’t even see it coming up behind her.
Iz hadn’t got a bad bone in her body, but that viscious dog fully intended to kill her and her puppies.
Only thing to be careful of is it doesn’t try to turn round and grab your ankles! 