Dog Owners: Please Read

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My walk home from school is now reffered to as the "**** run" as I live by a very popular dog walking beach. I hate dogs though, something seems wrong to me about keeping a large, brutish animal in your home that just slobbers, smells bad and poops everywhere. Cats all the way, they bury they're sensible and bury their **** :D
 
In my opinion I think that anyone owning a bigger type of dog should be required to take "dog training" courses. My uncle (who lives in the rolling hills of the Alsace region - so basically huge forests, fields etc..) has always owned big dogs - but from the age where they are old enough ALWAYS trains them. His dogs ALWAYS stays when you say Stay, always heels when asked, sits when asked - and the dog has SO much love and pride for his owner (my uncle) - you can see the respect in the dog's eye. I think as a dog owner you have that responsibility. Furthermore, I think that before getting a dog you need the space and the time. If you haven't got the time or the space and basically hurl abuse at the dog and treat is an animal (please excuse the pun) you are going to get a terror of a dog. Treat it properly you will get a friend.

Then again I think there is a line to be drawn, some dogs are naturally wilder if you are not able or willing to put the time in to educate it you will end up again with a dangerous dog.
 
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Well, as a dog owner (when I'm at home anyhow) what *REALLY* annoys me is that, when I choose to take my pooch for a walk up the local nature path, there is always some psycopath with it's offspring kicking around. Said psyco has decided that future dole-scrounger child needs to learn to ride a motorbike at the age of 8 and so sets the scumbag little brat off, HIGHLY ILLEGALLY on a public footpath. Unsurprisingly, this upsets my dog an awful lot, with a battered old 50cc bike with no silencer screaming past her.

There is also the nasty little kid who's grand parants live next door. It takes a massive amount of glee in winding my dog up by pelting her with stuff from it's back garden. THis is cruelty to animals, but when I threaten(after asking nicely MANY times) to remove said child's head from it's shoulders, I get a torrent of foul-mouthed abuse from grandpa.

When looking at bad dog owners, I would sight both types of people above, the ones that upset my pooch, as your a-typical bad dog owner. Surprisingly (or not), these are the people I would consider incapable of raising a child in a responsible fashion - what chance does a dog stand with these idiots???

I consider myself a responsible dog owner. I carry a scoop with me incase the dog does her business when we are out, which is very rarely as she is well trained. I keep her on the leash on public streets but have to let her go for a run in the park/local nature walk etc as she is a collie-cross and is tyhus part working dog. She NEEDS a good run every day. Please do not tar everyone with the same brush. Just because some children are utter animal-scum doesn't mean all kids are.

My advice is do what I do: Look at the problematic dog (or kid) and look at the owner. Gain satisfaction from knowing that you have got intelligence equal to their's squared.
 
I think your atitude towards dogs stinks - just cos of one or two bad owners doesnt mean they are all bad creatures.

We have a lane which is a footpath - made for walking and is used by all the local dog owners - we have problems with irresponsible cyclists hurtling down it narrowly missing us and our pets - its only a matter of time until they hit one or other (one of my dogs, recently died - before that she was almost blind and pretty deaf...but very mobile, she had no idea about bikes but loved to run about) :mad:

You dont like being attacked by dogs - fair enough, it shouldnt happen. But if you were to cycle into my dog, or kick it or anything else by god i'd beat you into a pulp.
 
About kicking the dog... as cruel as it may be etc... I can maybe understand why some people need to do this - but as stated I'd give the owner a kicking first... though you'd have a dog biting you're arse... Also dogs ARE animals and do live by the "survival" basic instinct. If you kick a dog and it doesn't go down, it'll come back at you twice as hard - maybe not all dogs, but the bigger/wilder ones can be. Besides I've "met" some little terriers 3x more ferocious than a 19st Great Dane! :p
 
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I think your atitude towards dogs stinks - just cos of one or two bad owners doesnt mean they are all bad creatures.

We have a lane which is a footpath - made for walking and is used by all the local dog owners - we have problems with irresponsible cyclists hurtling down it narrowly missing us and our pets - its only a matter of time until they hit one or other (one of my dogs, recently died - before that she was almost blind and pretty deaf...but very mobile, she had no idea about bikes but loved to run about) :mad:

You dont like being attacked by dogs - fair enough, it shouldnt happen. But if you were to cycle into my dog, or kick it or anything else by god i'd beat you into a pulp.
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Fully agree.
 
I love animals generally (I'm a vegetarian for this reason) but I dislike dogs, some just scare the bejeezus out of me for no apparent reason. If one did to me what it tried to do to you, I would not have shown the restraint you did. A swift kick for the dog and a good kicking for the owner.
 
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About kicking the dog... as cruel as it may be etc... I can maybe understand why some people need to do this - but as stated I'd give the owner a kicking first... though you'd have a dog biting you're arse... Also dogs ARE animals and do live by the "survival" basic instinct. If you kick a dog and it doesn't go down, it'll come back at you twice as hard - maybe not all dogs, but the bigger/wilder ones can be. Besides I've "met" some little terriers 3x more ferocious than a 19st Great Dane! :p
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So keep kicking it, it has to die sooner or later! :eek:

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hmmm... a trained German Sheppard or Rottweiler are pretty tough creatures if they have been trained in an attacking role... obviously as a pet they may not trained to be as tough - but I'd still rather take on the owner...
 
I can't understand why people keep the more aggressive breeds of dog. It's like keeping a tiger as a pet, it's in their nature to attack things and there's not much you can do about it.

(BTW Seraphim, your writing style makes me laugh even if your experience doesn't!)
 
Kicking the dog might not be such a good idea. It mostly just angers then more and they become much more agressive (learned from experience). The pain they react to is the pain from say their owner whipping them with the lead. I had a dog which became very agressive because of a brain tumour and in the end had to be put down because it would just randomly attack me.

I'd have a strong word with the owners first and tell them they have got away lightly so far but they (and you) might not be so lucky next time.
 
Keep your rant, I have read it and acknowledged it as I am too a dog owner...the difference being that mine is trained and doesnt attack cats let alone people. But then now you have your blinkers on...shame. Fair enough the dog attacked you and thats the owners responsability and should be reported to the local council (and no, one "nip" is not usually grounds for killing a dog...it will get it on the dangerous dogs register though). So a seeing eye dog in your mind is nothing but a vicous tyrant waiting to pounce on an unsuspecting cycle rider? Or let me see the "petting" dogs that they take round to the hospitals to visit children and adults with palsy and downs syndrome are sure to jump for their jugulars the second they get on two wheels?
Still I dont like cycle riders as they think the laws of the road dont apply to them and they are all stupid no brainers who think riding on pavements, jumping off curbs into the flow of traffic is all a good laugh at the expense of car drivers oh and they are all vegetarian treehungers....ooops there I go with generalisations tut tut.
Oh and BTW I am not grossly overweight, nor do I like football, nor do I wear stupid spandex shorts and shave my legs all in the aid of "increasing my aerodynamicness"
And I own a labrador who is neither "stupid" or spends much time licking his own genetalia as he busy being trained and loved by his owners...in fact he has more road sense than every cycle rider on the planet :)
 
My grayhound would not touch anyone and I know this from a bad incident a year ago when a 3 year old kid came from no where and hit Max on the head, all Max did was ran off growling, the only time that he ever gets vicous and would hurt anyone is if someone is at me, then they know about it!

Owners are the problem then the dogs, but if it is three times, get ****** you have a right too.
 
My dog friends always suggest that if a dog jumps up at you bring your knee up so it hits the dog as it comes back down. This certainly works on their dogs who are quite lively, and also very very large dogs. I think they just jump up because they are incredibly excited to see you though... So this might not work on a ****** off dog :D

Apparently the smallest dogs are actually the most aggressive?
 
So are all the people who get randomly bitten by dogs through no fault of their own (and it happens a LOT, did a morning paper round years ago for a few months and got bitten about once a fortnight - not by dogs "protecting" their property, but by random dogs jumping over garden fences and so on) just expected to stand on the spot whilst aforementioned dog repeatedly bites them until the owner decides to arrive? Or should we just talk to it in a calm but authorative voice until it ceases? What an excellent plan. I'll just stand still and bleed until it's had its fun shall I? Don't know why I didn't think of it before!

If a dog comes and bites me it's getting a shunt back - the same as anything that attacks or tries to wound me would, be it human or any other animal. Unfortunately in real life, "turning the other cheek" seldom actually works.
 
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So are all the people who get randomly bitten by dogs through no fault of their own (and it happens a LOT, did a morning paper round years ago for a few months and got bitten about once a fortnight - not by dogs "protecting" their property, but by random dogs jumping over garden fences and so on) just expected to stand on the spot whilst aforementioned dog repeatedly bites them until the owner decides to arrive? Or should we just talk to it in a calm but authorative voice until it ceases? What an excellent plan. I'll just stand still and bleed until it's had its fun shall I? Don't know why I didn't think of it before!

If a dog comes and bites me it's getting a shunt back - the same as anything that attacks or tries to wound me would, be it human or any other animal. Unfortunately in real life, "turning the other cheek" seldom actually works.
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of course your not expected to stand on the spot and do nothing, abosolutely defend yourself, but if I was being bitten once a fortnight or even just once, I'd have been to the council and local police station to report the dog and the owner.

And not really wanting to go off topic, I've been on the recieving end of more damage from cyclists who don't give a damn about pedestrians, than agressive dogs trying to get at me.
 
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