phil-b
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SpokeyDokey thas is just flag waving and does not contribute anything useful to the discussion
Sodding dogs!!
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SpokeyDokey thas is just flag waving and does not contribute anything useful to the discussion
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
I dunno, it made me smile.
Gravity Aided
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- Land of Lincoln
I walk my dogs on my own streets, no sense in clogging the shared use paths with both myself and my dogs, when I can start and finish a walk right at my garage door. My dogs wish to walk there, as it is their way of monitoring local dog activity, they could give a damn about dogs walking on the trail, as they see that as terra incognita. They prefer to monitor their own neighborhood, for signs of heresy and unorthodoxy.Like Shih Tzus
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- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
I couldn't agree more with you.
However, the thread has veered tangentially in several directions prior to my post and this is not S,C & P, it's the relatively light-hearted bit of the forum.
Plus - someone has to wave the flag for dogs as there are so many *astard scum humans who inflict untold cruelty on these lovely animals.
Anyway - in a vain attempt to keep the thread on topic I found this lovely dog flag. It's topically relevant as the mutt is nibbling on a couple of cyclist femurs as you can see:
midliferider
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- Northampton
I neither love dogs nor do I hate them. I just do not have a need to have a dog in my life. I do not need a dog to kiss, cuddle or sleep with. I do not have any thing against those people who need one.
In fact, in my work I see children who are injured by dogs or more recently even killed. But believe me I never make a comment about those owners or how they should look after their dogs. I leave it to other authorities.
But my problem is when it has an impact on me. For example, I walk with a local group. Sometimes people come with their dogs. I have absolutely no problem with that. But what really annoy me is that when their dogs jump in various muddy waters, come out and dry themselves making me covered in muds.
You may say that be tolerant, just go and take a shower,it is just a dog etc.
But I really do not want that.
Same with dogs not on leads.
You love dogs, you look after them, we live in peace.
Gravity Aided
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- Land of Lincoln
Leash laws are a good thing. My dogs always have to be leashed or in a harness(preferred by my dogs) as it is local law that they be so. This was because of a lot of problems caused by dogs and their diseases coming in contact with other dogs and people. Most communities in the States adopted these years ago(1960's) as a matter of public health and safety. I love dogs, but they can't be a nuisance. Others have to inhabit the same space, and we should all get along.
midliferider
Guru
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- Northampton
I think locally the council is looking to impose the rule of having dogs on leads. This is in fact response to the increasing number of children been injured by dogs and the recent horrific death of an infant.
recumbentpanda
Guru
I think a lot of conflict between dog/owner and other users is because most dog owners do not understand two basic fact about their dogs:
1. Dogs are scent hunters and their vision and ability to notice and track moving objects is often pretty poor. Most owners seem to think Towser has the same vision as they have. As Towser gets advanced in years it's vision is likely to deteriorate even further.
2. Dogs are pack animals. To the oft repeated phrase 'don't worry he/she won't bite' I reply, "I'll be the judge of that!". Unless Towser has some serious mental defect, it will not bite owner, because owner is part of pack. Any randomly met person on road is not part of pack, and Towser makes a new decision with every encounter. Sooner or later, even the apparently sweetest-natured Towser meets someone who, for some reason unfathomable to humans, it decides is a threat to the pack. At that point all the nice doggie stuff goes out of the window and Towser gets the knives out. Owner also needs to look out for the day when Towser decides the new (human) puppy is a threat to Towser's place in the pack heirarchy. That's the day your baby gets its face chewed off.
For these and other reasons I regard all dogs as potential attackers.
1. Dogs are scent hunters and their vision and ability to notice and track moving objects is often pretty poor. Most owners seem to think Towser has the same vision as they have. As Towser gets advanced in years it's vision is likely to deteriorate even further.
2. Dogs are pack animals. To the oft repeated phrase 'don't worry he/she won't bite' I reply, "I'll be the judge of that!". Unless Towser has some serious mental defect, it will not bite owner, because owner is part of pack. Any randomly met person on road is not part of pack, and Towser makes a new decision with every encounter. Sooner or later, even the apparently sweetest-natured Towser meets someone who, for some reason unfathomable to humans, it decides is a threat to the pack. At that point all the nice doggie stuff goes out of the window and Towser gets the knives out. Owner also needs to look out for the day when Towser decides the new (human) puppy is a threat to Towser's place in the pack heirarchy. That's the day your baby gets its face chewed off.
For these and other reasons I regard all dogs as potential attackers.
rovers1875
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- Accrington
No, nothing to do with the press, I have never got the hang of anything remote control, my kids would let me play with the Scalectrix and the better half only reluctantly lets me have the TV remote when she goes out.
RichardB
Slightly retro
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- West Wales
I would agree totally that dogs should always be under proper control when in a public place, and that the penalties for having a dangerous or out-of-control dog should be severe. But having said that, I have never met a dog I didn't like. I find their company very gratifying. We lost our Lab two years ago and haven't got round to getting another, and the house is a strange, quiet place without one.
The OP reminds of the time when I was cycling along a cycle path on the prom when a young child got out of her parents' car and ran across the pavement onto the cycle path, in her haste to get to the beach. I swerved and missed the kid fortunately but my mate wasn't so lucky. He hit her a glancing blow and came down; breaking his femur in the process.
Fortunately there were lots of witnesses and we later found out that the kid was found culpable and the parents were given a suspended sentence. sodding kids
Fortunately there were lots of witnesses and we later found out that the kid was found culpable and the parents were given a suspended sentence. sodding kids
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
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- Reading, obvs
A good reminder that no matter how small the animal/person/thing you hit, you may well still come off second best, and in the worst case end up seriously injured.
Berk on a Bike
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- Yorkshire
The dumb animals that roam our local cycle route really get my goat. Their dogs are bastards too.
Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
I know officer a who worked on that job, and I don't think having lead on would've helped one bit, so if the Carncil use that as justification then they're bigger idiots than we already thought them to be.
I'm lucky living in the countryside (in fact, not lucky at all, I work hard to afford to be able to do so) and don't let Lemmy off the lead until I can see several hundred metres in all directions. People who let their dogs off on the path where other users of said path can be reasonably expected to appear from time to time are selfish and inconsiderate.
contadino
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- Chesterfield
Kids, pets and old people should pretty much always be on a leash when outside their own home.