I don't want to be approached by other people's dogs when I'm out. I don't want them pawing and sniffing around me or have them drool on me. A lot of dog owners seem to think that it's OK for their dog to invade my space.
I agree with that.
"Don't worry, he's friendly". Well I won't be if you don't get him the fuck off me.
That‘s normally followed by “He’s never done that before!” as you’re having a 6-inch bite in your leg stitched!
The main problem, as I see it, as a non-dog owner, is basically: thick cunts.
The common thread amongst a lot of social problems imo.
Paying the price now for so many years of crumbling education and bombardment with brain dead "entertainment".
Being stupid is now somehow seen as desirable.
Too right, I was only thinking the other day it's like we have regressed to being at school where the bright kids were bullied into silence and the clowns and hard nuts were "cool".
I don't want to be approached by other people's dogs when I'm out. I don't want them pawing and sniffing around me or have them drool on me. A lot of dog owners seem to think that it's OK for their dog to invade my space.
This a thousand times over. I like dogs. But haven’t got one for various reasons. So don’t make your dog my problem.
Last Saturday I was helping out coaching an u13s match. One of the girls went off injured. She was bitten badly as a toddler & is therefore terrified of dogs. Whilst at the side, a man walking a large German Shepard came by & the dog went over to this girl who was laying on side. She started getting upset, but couldn’t move because of her ankle. I asked the man to take the dog away politely & explained way. Even with that & the girl visibly upset, he insisted on giving the whole ‘he is friendly speech’, as the dog sniffed around a crying girl. When I asked if he was an actual moron he looked genuinely shocked & as if I was out of order. And that’s the trouble, morons are allowed to own dogs.
Other dog owners can be so infuriating sometimes. We have two Border Terriers. One doesn’t like other dogs and will bark at them and go a bit loco. As a result we never let him off the lead, unless we are somewhere like a deserted beach in the Scottish Islands and there are no other dogs around. Even then if we see a dog in the distance then he’s back on the lead. We don’t think he’ll harm them but it’s not fair for him to get in their faces, barking at them and generally being a nuisance. However, the amount of times we have been on the village green, in a local park, on the beach etc. and another dog has come running up to him and barking in his face and then the other owner is surprised when our dog reacts badly. It’s always ‘oh, don’t mind him he’s friendly’ and I have to point out ‘well my dog doesn’t obviously think so and your dog has just got in his personal space and been a nuisance’.
I don’t mind other dogs being off lead but only if they are not going to make a beeline for other dogs and be a nuisance to them. Dogs are fine in general, it’s the owners that are the problem.
It's refreshing to hear a dog owner say this (i note others in this thread have also done so)
Almost all recent conflicts in my life have been with dog owners who let their dog run up to my toddler and freak him out...
Obviously, always accompanied by the "don't worry..../he's friendly"
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Almost all recent conflicts in my life have been with dog owners who let their dog run up to my toddler and freak him out...
Obviously, always accompanied by the "don't worry..../he's friendly"
So frustrating