25 Aug 12
Our neighborhood dogs bark half the night, crap everywhere, and bite children playing at the park.
Yesterday I am getting my running in before dinner and some dog starts chasing me. The owner yells very friendly like from their garden, "Don't worry he doesn't bite."
Fine, but why would I want your dog chasing me down the street? I wouldn't want you chasing me down the street. What is the difference?
Local animal control officers are looking for a dog that bit a 3-year-old Tuesday night at a park in town.
I am sure dogs are fine people too. I am not hater - but I sure don't get the allure.
25 Aug 12
Originally posted by mercurialThat's why I like cats. If a cat were chasing you down the street I doubt it would be an issue. 🙂
Our neighborhood dogs bark half the night, crap everywhere, and bite children playing at the park.
Yesterday I am getting my running in before dinner and some dog starts chasing me. The owner yells very friendly like from their garden, "Don't worry he doesn't bite."
Fine, but why would I want your dog chasing me down the street? I wouldn't want you ...[text shortened]... .
I am sure dogs are fine people too. I am not hater - but I sure don't get the allure.
25 Aug 12
Originally posted by mercurialDogs are fine... It's usually the owners who suck. Take some golf balls with you running, when I was biking they came in handy more than once. If you miss, they usually chase it... If you hit, the dog learns a very valuable lesson. The owner shouldn't be yelling to you, should be yelling at the dog to stop.
Our neighborhood dogs bark half the night, crap everywhere, and bite children playing at the park.
Yesterday I am getting my running in before dinner and some dog starts chasing me. The owner yells very friendly like from their garden, "Don't worry he doesn't bite."
Fine, but why would I want your dog chasing me down the street? I wouldn't want you ...[text shortened]... .
I am sure dogs are fine people too. I am not hater - but I sure don't get the allure.
Our neighbor had a dog that barked all hours of the day. Finally one morning my wife threw the window open and had some choice words for the dog. About 6 months later my wife noticed the neighbor always talked to me but never to her.
"um, remember ranting at his dog?"
She had totally forgot about it.
25 Aug 12
Originally posted by mercurialOnly my own observations here, but in the countryside the dog owners are generally more likely to have their pets trained properly..perhaps it's just a more 'natural' habitat for dogs but they do appear to be more amenable with other people AND other dogs..but there's always an exception in the dog owning stakes. One local has a dog that runs in front of the horse she rides regularly around the country lanes...she regularly rests up her horse close to my home..one day she wasn't in plain view but her horse and dog were, I approached the horse and naturally patted it as it was such a friendly beast. I did likewise with the dog but having plainly seen me being friendly with both of her animals, she shouted toward me, 'do you mind, he's not a pet..he's a working dog !' ...all I could say was, 'poor bugger..what a shame, as I'm absolutely certain that he's far more capable of making friends than you ever will be...good day madam !'
Our neighborhood dogs bark half the night, crap everywhere, and bite children playing at the park.
Yesterday I am getting my running in before dinner and some dog starts chasing me. The owner yells very friendly like from their garden, "Don't worry he doesn't bite."
Fine, but why would I want your dog chasing me down the street? I wouldn't want you ...[text shortened]... .
I am sure dogs are fine people too. I am not hater - but I sure don't get the allure.
25 Aug 12
Originally posted by mercurialI agree with my learned colleagues in this post.
Our neighborhood dogs bark half the night, crap everywhere, and bite children playing at the park.
Yesterday I am getting my running in before dinner and some dog starts chasing me. The owner yells very friendly like from their garden, "Don't worry he doesn't bite."
Fine, but why would I want your dog chasing me down the street? I wouldn't want you ...[text shortened]... .
I am sure dogs are fine people too. I am not hater - but I sure don't get the allure.
I forget who said it, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”.
If you live in a situation where the dogs are allowed to behave like that, then God bless you.
I would be weary of my neighbours, because the dogs are just a sign of the moral content around you, the writing on the wall if you will.
My dogs are a reflection of me and my family, and they behave accordingly.
Freaks should not be allowed to have kids or animals, because in my experience, they do a piss poor job of bringing either up.
25 Aug 12
Originally posted by mercurialI have a six year old son. Recently, some friends of ours invited us to their house and they have two large Rottweillers. They charged at my son, I rushed to intervene and they also said 'Dont worry they're really friendly.'
Our neighborhood dogs bark half the night, crap everywhere, and bite children playing at the park.
Yesterday I am getting my running in before dinner and some dog starts chasing me. The owner yells very friendly like from their garden, "Don't worry he doesn't bite."
Fine, but why would I want your dog chasing me down the street? I wouldn't want you ...[text shortened]... .
I am sure dogs are fine people too. I am not hater - but I sure don't get the allure.
To which I react:
1. 'Cos I am going to wait and see if that's the case?
2. How would you feel if two animals weighing 25 stone each and standing 10ft (the adult equivalent of what these dogs would have been relative to my son) came charging at you barking?
Eventually one of them did knock my son over and it was only then that they decided to stop them running free.
I may be more prejudiced than most, as a school friend of mine had half his face torn off by a neighbour's dog that, until then, had been 'really friendly'.
