How about train the dog instead of sue the leash maker.


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I read about the first 3 paragraphs. You can put precautious on the package, but you can't make 'em follow them. Where's the common sense?

Exactly.
"I never saw the instructions and didn't use any common sense and got injured, so who can I sue?.
Idiot!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

I honestly despise those leashes. People bring thier dogs to the kennel and the dog goes whipping by, I get burns on my legs from them <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> Doesn't excuse people for sueing over an accident. Did she sue the state for the beach giving her the smack down???? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I use a flexi for my dog on walks and in training, I got rope burn on my hand ONCE, I didn't cry about it, I didn't call my attorney, it was my own stupid fault because when my dog ran after a rabbit, for some really dumb reason, I grabbed the cord intead of hitting the stupid button lol.

Whenever I see another person when walking my dog on a flexi, i tell my dog to heel, n he comes back to me n I lock it in the 2ft position, it's been an awesome training aid for me and if people would use the dang things like they're supposed to, other people wouldn't hate them so much and there'd be less stupid injuries.

She says the flexi was borrowed and that is why she didn't see the instructions. Is the person who loaned her the flexi, also named in the lawsuit? For not providing her with the information on the proper use of the all so technical device. I say 'probably not'

Couldn't flexi argue; if her dog was properly trained to be in a public setting it would not have just bolted? If she was holding it properly by the handle her finger wouldn't have been near the cable. And another thing I was wondering, Was it the Lg,M or S cable. Did she have a large powerful dog on a small cable? That I can see severing a finger tip, or can a small dog on a S cable amputate as well?

Oh well, not really looking for answers. Just throwing some food for thought out there. Been awhile since I chimed in <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

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She says the flexi was borrowed and that is why she didn't see the instructions. Is the person who loaned her the flexi, also named in the lawsuit? For not providing her with the information on the proper use of the all so technical device.

That is just plain ridiculous (and I realize you were being hypothetical and somewhat sarcastic). That would be like you loaning your car to a friend, and them getting pulled over for speeding, but claiming that they didn't realize the vehicle would go that fast so quickly, and the ticket going against you. LoL

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That would be like you loaning your car to a friend, and them getting pulled over for speeding, but claiming that they didn't realize the vehicle would go that fast so quickly, and the ticket going against you. LoL

I got pulled over in my friends car once, he was hearing noises so had me test drive the car to diagnose it, it was 10.55pm n I ran a red light that turns into a flashing red light (stop sign) at 11pm, I wasn't really paying attention because I wasn't in my own car and was focusing on the "noise", I just stopped, saw it was clear, n crossed the road, the only car on the road happened to be a cop. He gave me a warning because I was nice about it and it wasn't my car <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

About a month later me and 2 other friends get stuck at a supermarket parking lot because my friends wife's trucks battery died on us completely. We can't call my friends wife to come get us because a) we had our car keys on us and our cars were blocking the driveway, b) kids were in bed n it'd be easier to walk 3 miles than wake up kids lol. So we go ask a cop that's hanging out with another cop if he would mind giving us a ride home - turned out to be the same cop that gave me a warning a month earlier for running a red light lol. I will say this much - 3 guys in the back of a crown vic with a cage is very uncomfortable <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

So there you have it - the "it's not my car" excuse does work - as long as you didn't steal the car hehe.

Those people shouldn't own dogs. Or have children.

The former because they apparently have no clue how to train them. The latter because they'll teach them how to be sue-happy.

I also despise flexis if they're used on animals that aren't trained properly. I was driving out of a subdivision where I encountered a woman on her cellphone, holding a chihuahua puppy, and walking two small dogs each on a flexi... at max length. I slowed down and stopped, as the dogs on the flexi decided to walk up to and UNDER the car. The lady just looked frantic and I gave her quite the look for being so irresponsible. It's like these flexis seem to give license for a lot of people to just slack off. Another time, I was rounding a bend in my old subdivision that goes over a hill, one where there isn't great visibility, and I pop over the hill and there's a little white dog in the middle of the street on a flexi, with the owner on the sidewalk. He yanked his dog over as I hit the brakes, and he had the audacity to give me an angry look. Last I checked, roads were for cars, NOT for dogs on flexis...

*end rant*

People should at least train their dogs not to run into the road! Agh! My dog only goes into the road if he's heeling with me or if I tell him to cross the street, its common sense, you teach the same thing to kids! But people just don't train house pets, training doesn't enter most peoples minds at all. "A dog's a dog" attitude.