Heather Perring Webboard User Reg: 07-25-2008
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So today in IL it was 65 degrees, was a nice change from walking in weather where you can't feel any part of your body by the time you get up the front door steps and crawl back inside!
I just wanted to share my experience with my pup. For the first time since I've had here I ran into multiple dog walkers. I was embarrassed for them, really! Saw like 5 other dogs, each and every one of them made a huge fit when they saw me and Reesee. I mean, barking, pulling and full out dragging their owners rudely. A couple even stopped very far away and just stood there letting their dog go nuts. Even met another GSD, and man he was the worst.
Just sharing how proud I was of Reesee when she just glanced at the offenders-even when very close-and walked on next to my leg.
Your post reminded me of last night on our run with Luc and Teagan - we came upon a woman coming out a school parking lot with a dog (it looked like a pit/corgi cross, it was the weirdest looking thing). Her dog went absolutely ballastic, so I walked away and up the school steps with Luc and Teagan. Luc completely ignored the other dog and Teagan was giving it the eye but stayed nicely at my side.
The scariest thing to me was that this dog was pulling the woman all over the place, and was displaying several aggressive behaviours massively, and she kept calling 'it's alright!' as he jerked her all over the place....yeah, thanks for that comfort lady, but I was happy to wait until they'd crossed the street. I mean, yeah, I have an aggressive, b*tchy dog, but I don't let her jerk me all over and I don't call out 'it's alright!' to people when it's obviously not. What are people thinking, encouraging others to come near when they have no control and aggressive dogs?
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Thanks!
Haha, yeah.. and that reminds me of yesterday when I was walking and the trashy neighbors ( I could kill them ) always let their dogs run loose.. I usually look ahead and walk the other way when I see them but he was behind their house.
The big one was out-looks like a pit/American Bulldog cross- and just charges me and my dog, hackles up from shoulders to tail and tail straight up in the air and was staring her down as he growled..not even a bark. He was very stiff...and very threatening. Thankfully I got between them and he didn't want to come near me and stayed away from her because of it. I was ready to kick him in the face.
The whole time the man in the yard was saying: "Chopper come....come....come...COME...COME!!" Dog ignored him completely "Oh he won't hurtcha!"
So today in IL it was 65 degrees, was a nice change from walking in weather where you can't feel any part of your body by the time you get up the front door steps and crawl back inside!
Yeah... we broke 2 records here... one for record cold and the other for record warm - in the same week! Yikes! my back yard is mud soup right now.
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Yikes! my back yard is mud soup right now.
Omg no kidding..I get a headache every time I know the pups need to go out..they bring samples of the marshland out back right into and throughout the house. You can make them sit for 15 minutes as you wipe paws and I swear they have a secret compartment to hide mud because there is still enough to grind into carpet.
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It's crazy-warm here too and I LOVE it. No problems with mud yet, though I still seem to be able to find the puddles with ice lurking in the bottom. I put on a pretty good show for the passers-by today. My poor dog even had a couple of Scooby Doo moments. I can't wait until summer.....
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The scariest thing to me was that this dog was pulling the woman all over the place, and was displaying several aggressive behaviours massively,
This brings up a pet peeve of mine. Adults that allow their KIDS to walk untrained-aggressive dogs. I see it all the time around our neighborhood and had a run in last night.
Young girl, maybe 12..maybe but just a little thing. I spotted them early enough to be on the alert, but of course they were in the park we had to access to get to our hiking trail. This dog was going balistic (it was a husky mix)and pulling the girl like she wasn't even there. Of course it's all icy and slushy because of the weather so she kept falling down and I was just waiting for the leash to slip out of her hands, luckily it didn't. But why would you let your child out alone with a dog like that? I wouldn't risk that this little girl would get caught up in between a dog fight if they came across a dog that was loose.
I don't get some people. But i see it all the time, and it's always with larger dogs that the child has no right walking without an adult present.
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Oh yeah..I've seen those many times. The only one recently though was at petco. I was looking at dog toys and this little girl was walking a great dane mix with her mother well out of reach. The dog's back was at the girls collarbone level. It did have a prong on but it was WAY too loose and was at the lowest point on the dogs neck.
The dog seemed alright other than fixating on the other dogs but you never know, some of the idiots at those petco stores..they bring in dogs who are so aggressive they are knocking merchandise off the shelves as they snarl and charge at the other dogs.
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