Pesky dog walkers listening to podcasts.How awful...
make like Fran Leibowitz; "Pretend you live in a city". If you want to walk your dog on a long retractable leash while listening to Joe, then **** off to the middle of nowhere, otherwise, don't act all surprised when I come past you on my bike on the TPT on the outskirts of the largest urban areas in the north west.
Pesky dog walkers listening to podcasts.How awful...
I'm with jamj on this. Concentrate on the dog otherwise like Mrs Sandwich you'll end up on your arse and losing the earbud you were listening to the podcast on. She will not understand that our Dingus Dog can tell when you're not focussed and he will take advantage. So far the only person suffering is her on two occassions she has been bruised and muddied with the dog on the lead and I've had to go and use HMV to recover a dog from the middle of a huge puddle.
@redthunder I regularly stomp on when we're bothered by uncontrolled dogs. Not my problem if your dog goes out of the park with my dog and gets lost, train them to recall or don't let them off. it's not rocket surgery.
I've had to go and use HMV to recover a dog from the middle of a huge puddle.
Was it in the middle of a huge gramophone horn?
There’s a theory that the reason we have so many dogs off leads is due to the lack of poisonous or venomous wildlife.
If people’s fur baby was at risk of being bitten by a snake or eating a cane toad you can bet they’d be a lot more careful
(Stands by for an Aussie telling me I’m wrong…)
I like dogs and I am usually very tolerant but the other day I was chased by 2 little yappy ones. Bit of a dick move but I just kept going at about their speed without letting them near me. They chased me for about a kilometre before I sprinted off
Its all about the dog and how well trained it is. I have known dogs that never went on a lead as they had no need to. I have cycled along a mixed use path and on ringing my bell when I saw a man with 5 collie type dogs milling about he called "down" and they all got out of the way and dropped down and kept still. I have also been bitten by a dog without any warning as I cycled past and have known dogs that have to go on a lead before they leave the house and are never off it outside the house.
If more of us would report dogs and their owners and sue the owners for the damage the dog does I hope incidents would decrease. the dog owner is liable for the damage the dog does
Its all about the dog and how well trained it is. I have known dogs that never went on a lead as they had no need to.
Of course, the problem when you're approaching a dog that's not on a lead is that you don't know whether it's well trained or not. Being on a lead is it least a sign that the owner has some tiny bit of control, even if they do drop the lead immediately that the dog sprints away...
thats when you ring your bell and see what happens. From at least 50m away
