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strikers_rd Member Posts: 10 |
posted 02-15-2004 07:09 PM
I have a 9 month old rottweiler and a 5 month old pit bull. We walk them at the park and I get several reactions. A beagal came up to Chopper (Rottie) and Lily (pit bull) and the beagle growled at both of them, all my dogs wanted is to play, neither one of my dogs are aggressive, and people started to tell the beagle to run, I was like wait a minute... the beagle was the one growling at my dogs, however I told my dogs to keep walking and they did. Anyways the beagle was the one not on a leash, my dogs were! Well, Chopper takes care of Lily like it is his own baby. IP: Logged |
GoodboysBaddogs Member Posts: 409 |
posted 02-16-2004 12:15 AM
Edited, Check the Next 1... [This message has been edited by GoodboysBaddogs (edited 02-16-2004).] IP: Logged |
GoodboysBaddogs Member Posts: 409 |
posted 02-16-2004 12:33 AM
hey Strikers, From your dogs names i'm thinking Choppers a male & your Lily is a female, right? Well, even though your dogs may be fine together, they might not be as friendly w/ other dogs when they get older/mature. I'd say keep taking them out for walks, even take them to the dog parks if you can, for more interaction w/ other dogs of all sizes & attitudes. Doing this will help better their chances in keeping a well rounded personality. --i know what you mean w/ what happened to you w/ that Beagle situation. I'm frequently out w/ my dogs running & hiking somewhere, and theres always people doing the same w/ their dogs. But, i'd say about half the people that go "walking" w/ their dogs "unleashed", don't really know their dogs. For instance... This one day i was standing on the edge/side of a trail that has a good amount of dogs on it (i was unaware), and this lady was approaching us w/ her dog. She clearly saw how my dogs where leashed & "most" people have unleashed dogs. Mine are leashed specificaly for reasons like this... Well, i smiled at her, & she smiled back, when she said is your dog friendly, & i replied, yeah but my Pei isn't that friendly (i have an American Bulldog & a Chinese Shar Pei). I know she was more concerned about my commenly mistaken "Pitbull" looking American Bulldog, when she asked this. Anyhow, her dog at this time was constantly approaching my dogs, and she gave no effort what so ever to try & retrieve her dog that basically left her way behind and now was about to touch noses w/ my dogs. Before her dog came this close i asked her if her dog was friendly, because i could tell by it's posture that this dog was up to no good. Of coarse she replied yes he's friendly, that's why he's offleash. I was like yeah, right, here we go again, another idiot owner (telling myself of coarse ). Did i help the lady up?? HELL NO!!! I just shooked my head again & left... Actually we jogged off, just to show her how in controll of this whole incident us 3 really where Ha-Ha!!! Okay, someone eventually was there to try & help w/ the situation. And that idiot helped that other idiot up, if you know what i mean. Mannn, i could go on-&-on w/ stories like these... becarfull when your out w/ your "leashed" dogs, there's alotta people out there that "think" they know their dogs, untill things like this happens only to show how lame they really are... I recommend carrying pepper spray or something, you just never know when you'll need that extra protection (for seperation). IP: Logged |
kyles101 Member Posts: 227 |
posted 02-16-2004 01:43 AM
i feel ya strikers. same thing happens to me. at least some people have the decency to ask about my dog first, but they are still quite rude to begin with. this is what is usually said to me before i state that my dog is friendly 'oh thats an akita right. they have a bad rep you know'. i just think yeah i know, you dont have to rub it in and assume my dog has a bad reputation. a good thing to do is take your dogs over to the people who say bad things to prove that your dogs are friendly. they get extremely embarassed when they learn they are wrong and maybe that embarassment alone will teach them in future. our friends dog is named chopper! such a good name. GoodboysBaddogs, dont you just hate it when other owners cant pick out a bad situation? so many dogs come up to kuma that arent friendly and they are showing they arent even before they reach another dog. yet the owners cant seem to pick this out. [since when was snarling being friendly i dont know] it usually ends up being me or my partner getting a hold of kuma so she cant retaliate while the other dog is free to attack us or kuma as it pleases, while the other dogs owner doesnt give a damn! for example, one time at the park kuma got attacked. we could see the fight was going to happen so my partner grabbed kuma. we were giving the owner of the other dog a 'grab your dog now' look but nope, didnt want anything to do with it. a fight broke out between the dogs but because we had a hold of kuma and the owner refused to come get his dog, this meant the other dog was free to attack kuma. poor kuma ended up with puncture wounds all over her nose. i was furious. i just kept yelling 'WHY WOULDNT YOU GRAB YOUR DOG!' and he just walked away from me without giving an answer! since that incident his dog has attacked a couple of other dogs. in each incident he never restrained his dog while the other owners were left to defend their dogs while fighting off his. IP: Logged |
susan_cude@hotmail.com Member Posts: 813 |
posted 02-16-2004 08:57 AM
I had a somthing like this happen once also. I was walking my akita/sheperd mix on a leash in my neighborhood, (we walked by a house where I knew the man had the biggest german sheperd I had ever seen in my life) it was dark and I couldn't see that the dog was on the porch (with no leash on) he came running towards us, when he got to us, he began to sniff Chuck (my dog) and then began growling. I told the man to please get his dog! he told me, to pull chuck away from his dog. I couldn't believe it! I told him: To grab his damn dog, he's the one not on a leash! He acted like he was afraid of his own dog, finaly he came over and got him. I was scared to death! that would have been a horrible fight, thank goodness it didn't come to that...I do have to say though! that was the most beautiful sheperd i had ever seen in my life... just had to share, Susan And the woman that fell on her *** that was too funny!!! some people have no common since at all!!! IP: Logged |
tuttifrutti Member Posts: 478 |
posted 02-16-2004 10:08 AM
Yeah, I have had a few scares like that. I was walking ranger by a house, and didn't see the German shepherd mix on the porch until it came after us. Thankfully, as soon as I yelled 'no' really loudly at it, it stopped and kinda cocked its head wondering what was happening, and left us to go on our way. That same day (same walk, too!) We walked by another house, where there was a large dog, only same thing, as soon as I said 'no' really loudly, it stopped. Boy was I happy . There owners weren't even outside, it didn't look like the first was home, I am not sure they even knew there dog had gotten out. I don't know about the other one though, it may have been an electric fence, not sure, but as long as it didn't come and get me and Ranger, I am happy! IP: Logged |
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