Off Topic Yappy snappy little dogs

**** me i'm cute

 

But a twat

 

Absolutely!!

 

Generally think (with some exceptions) the bigger the dog, the better. Little yappy things are a bit rubbish imo, might as well get a cat. Labrador size is canny, they're a good dog. Alsatians are good, then you get St Bernard's and Irish wolfhound types that are huge and they are absolutely class. Often the big dogs are more gentle as well. Never been able to get a dog, if I ever get the chance I'll get a biggun

 

Take into consideration the size of the warm crap you have to pick up.

 

I've got a 2 year old cockerpoo. He's been socialised since young and goes out with a dog walker twice a week in a group so loves being around other dogs. I let him off the lead, but if I see another dog being walked on a lead I put him back onto his lead. It's just common sense & good practice, you don't know how the other dog will react if mine goes up to them, so why take the chance? Also if we see people without dogs who don't look happy about ours being off the lead, again he's back on.

It's the owners who are at fault for bad behaviour, not the dogs.

 

I was with you right up until this point...

If people have a phobia of dogs that's their problem, not ours. It's very rare I take a lead out with me tbh, I normally just put a collar around her neck and off we go.

 

You don't have to have a phobia of dogs to be wary. A phobia is an irrational fear, like a fear of dolls or paperclips. I remember there was a woman hospitalised near Durham, this summer, when her little dog was attacked by 3 rottweilers off their leads.
She tried to protect her dog but couldn't and they killed it.

Sadly some dog owners aren't as in control as they think ...

... then they'll say 'He's never bitten anyone before, you must've given him eye contact.'

 

Phobia/Wary either way that's still on the person who holds these fears, not me and my dog. I'm sad that people are wary around dogs but dogs are allowed off the lead in most places and have as much right to run free as us humans.

As for the rottweilers... Well their owner must have had some sort of inkling that his dogs could be aggressive so he should have the book thrown at him for that.

 

I'd agree with the human reaction to staffies, having two myself. People look at them, cross over and keep out of the way. Those devil dogs if let loose would actually kill you with kindness and suffocate you with love

 

Do not be daft, you should be able to walk freely without having a dog approach you at all

 

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I'm being daft and you come out with a statement like that

Like I've said dogs are allowed to be roaming free in a lot of places. Whether a dog or human comes to say hello, I don't mind at all.

 

Put yourself in the dogs mind. They see a much bigger dog and panic. It's a defense mechanism and they'll also be thinking they're protecting their owner. It's hard to train out as dachsunds are very headstrong. Where were you walking btw. It could have been our dog ha ha

 

All dogs are capable of aggression.

 

So are humans. I don't tell them to keep out of my way when I'm out walking, though.

 

I'm in the south west mate for now. I appreciate its a defence mechanism but the wife didn't do anything to even attempt to stop it or calm it down despite clearly seeing how it was affecting mine.

 

I love dogs (prefer the bigger to the smaller dogs generally) but if one attacked me I would have no qualms whatsoever about killing it and then having a go at the owners.

 

We at least try to calm ours but they are little sods. Cracking dogs but completely mental.

 

A lad I know was out shooting pigeons with his twelve bore near Pocklington when two Rottweilers came hareing towards him from out of the wood he dropped them both before they got within 10 yards of him, then a woman turned up screaming at him that if he’d just stood still they wouldn’t have hurt him