Some people....

[FOWLQUEEN]

I can't help but get ticked when I'm out training ( fields/rivers) and keeping my boy in check( heel) and other people let there dogs run right up to him without asking. He's dog friendly to all but I've had ones try to start fights....thankfully Gage has manners....the worst of it is the owners who act like it's nothing.....I was walking Gage back to the truck and a lady stopped me to ask about him saw he was unfixed and pulled her two labs back like he was some rabies carrier and ask if he's male aggressive??? I tell her no he's real good with all dogs ( she didn't believe me) but let's her male chocolate ( fixed) check Gage out and he starts acting up I start to call Gage back to me and her dog bites him! 😳 poor boy high tailed it back to me like what was that?!?


I couldn't believe it.....she tells me he's fixed he shouldn't have done that....apparently she doesn't understand how that works....

[Snowshoe]

Gee, a lot of this post sounds familiar. I think someone posted almost exactly the same first part a couple of months ago. At any rate, you're not alone. LOL, I know, that's the problem, you wish you were. Unless you are the only one with permission to train on private property it's going to happen. Heck, even if you are the only one. I once met a guy illegally hunting coyotes on property I have permission to use. And I lost permission to use one property because of people following my tracks and not staying in them and going right up and around the farmer's barn.

Vent away, I'm sorry to say I know just how you feel. I assume Gage is ok or you would have said?

[xracer4844]

Hate this. Some "pet owners" believe that when their dogs start jumping and pulling towards another dog - they must oblige and allow their dog to run over to my boy and smell and sniff. I can't stand it. If my dog was aggressive and decided to stand his ground, it would be my fault. He is not - as most labs usually are not. My boy has responsibilities, and so do I, which is why I don't let people I don't know, or their dog's to interact with him. I don't take that chance. Call me crazy. It's just what I was taught to do. Just last week my boy was going to the bathroom. He was squatting and a husky from across the street sprinted towards off - owner running behind him calling his name (of course 0 recall...I still don't understand why people do this) I immediately put myself between my dog and this husky - the owner scrambled around to get him, and then started walking away...the Husky in front of him at the end of his flexi...and I could heard the owner say in a nice voice - you are a bad dog and off they walked.

[voodoo]

in the city I live its against the law to have an intact dog. If any altercation happened with my chili, it would be my fault and subject to lawsuits/fines. I do pay 150/year for an intact dog permit, but that does not protect me from anything other than if 311 gets called they wont put him to sleep within 24 hrs. I hate to say, I hate these laws. I also dont understand how some dogs whether neutered or not hate my chili and he is the kindest/least aggressive dog.

[Bamps]

Glad I live away from that. When Opie and I are walking we only see coyotes, an ocaisional bobcat or cows. He doesn't approach any of them.

[POPTOP]

When a situation like that happens to me when I'm working Archie, I yell out that I'm training and please keep your dog away. It usually works but not always.

[coopersmom]

I can relate to unthinking/uncaring, maybe not so bright dog owners. We were camping in the summer in a Park that the rules stated all dogs had to be leashed...we were walking Cooper on his leash and another dog came barreling towards him and Cooper tried to get away - breaking my finger in the process (which I am still receiving therapy for). I am still paying the price for one dog owners bad decision. When my brother approached the dog owner the next day to let them know what had happened he was told to "mind his own damn business". Uugghhhh!!!!

[FOWLQUEEN]

Gage is alright no blood thankfully!

[SunDance]

We walk the dogs in several local parks with lakes....really nice places, potentially nice walks. It never fails that we encounter fools with their dogs either on unretracted retractable leashes or else just pulling full-tilt on the ends of their shorter leashes with the owners stumbling along to keep up with the dogs as they rush toward us. I courteously call ahead, "mine aren't friendly"....."mine are NOT friendly"...."please keep your dog away"....and some still don't pull their dogs up. Unlike you, I have dogs that go bananas when dogs pull toward them....Dan is reactive and Sunnie chimes in although she's friendly on her own. It isn't until Dan opens his mouth that some folks give me a dirty look and yank up on their dogs. If they'd stilled their dog when I first said something, we could have passed without major Dan/Sunnie noise. And Sunnie may even have been able to make a new friend.

I don't care if someone's dog is the Mother Theresa of dogdom, people shouldn't assume that every other dog wants to make friends. (and some of these dogs aren't indicating "friendly" to begin with)

I have a "friend" with a horribly reactive Cocker Spaniel...who is offended if people don't let her dog (always zig-zagging back and forth without restraint on a retractable leash...even with people approaching and having to go around the dog on the sides of the path...even in mud/etc.) approach theirs. And then the dog acts up and she says soooooo sweetly to her dog to not do that. Like it doesn't happen every. single. time. Grrrr......she's a soapbox of mine all on her own. Even people without dogs don't like encountering her.

OK...blood pressure's up now.

[sheltieluver]

I think there should be classes on proper dog etiquette before you can own a dog.