We get quite a few dogs walking their owners past here and most seem very well behaved. One of the owners has offered to swap his Bassett Charlie for my car ... I am tempted .........
Last edited: 05 October 2017 18:41:49
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think part of the problem ( ?) is that some, SOME owners are blinkered by the love they have for their animals that they just can't, or maybe won't conceive that others don't share that love.
I hate dogs running up to me in the street, park, beach, jumping up at me, sticking their nose in , erm, intimate bodily areas and the owners just glibbly say " oh don't worry, he's just saying hello / being friendly"
I don't want them "saying hello" , or "being friendly". I don't like them and I don't want them near me.
Why can't they just be kept on a lead when in public places?
... and speaking as someone who's kept dogs for most of my life, proper training, proper training, proper training(for the owners as well as the dogs).
Last edited: 05 October 2017 18:47:19
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lol, dogs should be on a lead unless in a dog friendly place. And I would never allow mine to pee up a neighbours garden. As always not the dogs to blame - just people.
We got off the ferry that connects Padstow to Rock a couple of years ago and a dog lifted it's leg and pee'd down my friend's leg. The owner didn't even apologise, unbelievable .
You should probably move to America then, where that largely is the case.
Just to put the other side of that particular argument and as an owner of running dogs who can't be properly exercised in a garden and need to be off lead in open country occasionally, I go to some lengths to find places that are away from 'normal' public access to exercise my dogs. I don't go to National Trust Gardens or family friendly beaches (even in Winter) or town parks or managed woodlands, basically anywhere that has a cafe and a proper car park is strictly either off limits or on lead because my dogs run fast and frighten children. Having gone to one of the few beaches in the southwest where there is no dog ban (more than half of the sandy beaches have dog bans for at least part of the year) or back water bridleway, I get thoroughly peed off with people having hysterics that my dog is running near them. There are dozens and dozens of lovely places you can go to walk where you'll not see a dog off lead. Why go to one of the very few safe places for dogs to run if running dogs frighten you? It's not like these places are easy to find. It took us about 5 years to find a place we can reliably go on the North Devon coast at any time of year.
Dove is right, a properly trained dog should never approach a stranger, but they aren't born with this instinct, they have to be taught, and by definition, when they are learning, sometimes they'll get it wrong.
As for the OP, peeing on a neighbour's plants is bad manners. But the scent of dog pee is usually what makes other dogs pee there so it inevitably escalates. A fence and slosh of warm water with some biological washing powder or a squirt of one of the bio odour removers that they sell in places like Pets at Home to get rid of the smell on the fence should some bad mannered owner let their dog pee there will help to break the cycle.
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We got off the ferry that connects Padstow to Rock a couple of years ago and a dog lifted it's leg and pee'd down my friend's leg. The owner didn't even apologise, unbelievable .
Maybe it's because I'm a hyper vigilant dog owner because
a) he's a big scary German Shepherd who we adopted knowing he wasn't perfect and probably never will be
b) he's a complete mummies boy
But you'd be amazed how SOME owners have no awareness of what their dog is up too even if it's on a lead. I won't start a holier than thou tale of the things I've seen because some of us might be wanting to enjoy brunch.
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We get quite a few dogs walking their owners past here and most seem very well behaved. One of the owners has offered to swap his Bassett Charlie for my car ... I am tempted .........
Last edited: 05 October 2017 18:41:49
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think part of the problem ( ?) is that some, SOME owners are blinkered by the love they have for their animals that they just can't, or maybe won't conceive that others don't share that love.
I hate dogs running up to me in the street, park, beach, jumping up at me, sticking their nose in , erm, intimate bodily areas and the owners just glibbly say " oh don't worry, he's just saying hello / being friendly"
I don't want them "saying hello" , or "being friendly". I don't like them and I don't want them near me.
Why can't they just be kept on a lead when in public places?
... and speaking as someone who's kept dogs for most of my life, proper training, proper training, proper training (for the owners as well as the dogs).
Last edited: 05 October 2017 18:47:19
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
wise words as ever Dove.
A well trained dog should never ever approach a stranger without having been told to by its owner, whether it's on a lead or not
Last edited: 05 October 2017 18:54:14
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lol, dogs should be on a lead unless in a dog friendly place. And I would never allow mine to pee up a neighbours garden. As always not the dogs to blame - just people.
I'd say dogs should be on a lead anywhere other than on their owners' property.
We got off the ferry that connects Padstow to Rock a couple of years ago and a dog lifted it's leg and pee'd down my friend's leg. The owner didn't even apologise, unbelievable
.
You should probably move to America then, where that largely is the case.
Just to put the other side of that particular argument and as an owner of running dogs who can't be properly exercised in a garden and need to be off lead in open country occasionally, I go to some lengths to find places that are away from 'normal' public access to exercise my dogs. I don't go to National Trust Gardens or family friendly beaches (even in Winter) or town parks or managed woodlands, basically anywhere that has a cafe and a proper car park is strictly either off limits or on lead because my dogs run fast and frighten children. Having gone to one of the few beaches in the southwest where there is no dog ban (more than half of the sandy beaches have dog bans for at least part of the year) or back water bridleway, I get thoroughly peed off with people having hysterics that my dog is running near them. There are dozens and dozens of lovely places you can go to walk where you'll not see a dog off lead. Why go to one of the very few safe places for dogs to run if running dogs frighten you? It's not like these places are easy to find. It took us about 5 years to find a place we can reliably go on the North Devon coast at any time of year.
Dove is right, a properly trained dog should never approach a stranger, but they aren't born with this instinct, they have to be taught, and by definition, when they are learning, sometimes they'll get it wrong.
As for the OP, peeing on a neighbour's plants is bad manners. But the scent of dog pee is usually what makes other dogs pee there so it inevitably escalates. A fence and slosh of warm water with some biological washing powder or a squirt of one of the bio odour removers that they sell in places like Pets at Home to get rid of the smell on the fence should some bad mannered owner let their dog pee there will help to break the cycle.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Maybe it's because I'm a hyper vigilant dog owner because
a) he's a big scary German Shepherd who we adopted knowing he wasn't perfect and probably never will be
b) he's a complete mummies boy
But you'd be amazed how SOME owners have no awareness of what their dog is up too even if it's on a lead. I won't start a holier than thou tale of the things I've seen because some of us might be wanting to enjoy brunch.