Another Confrontation

[john gregory]

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I took the girls out for another walk this afternoon down the old train track, they had a lot of fun running thru the tree's and up the banks, after about an hour we started to walk back along the track home. They were tired now so they where walking slowly near me. I then saw a woman coming towards us with a medium size fattish x breed running free, so I put the leads on the girls. The other dog started to approach us in a creeping fashion so I said to the woman 'is it friendly ' she did'nt answer, just smirked. As it got closer it's fur on it's back came up and started to growl, I asked her to call her dog back, again no answer. By this time the girls were beginning to get restless around me. The dog came right into us very aggressive, I had no option and to protect the girls, and have never done it before, but gave it a good kick in its ribs, it then backed off and the woman called it. I said ' why dont you put it on its lead if its like that ' again no answer just another smirk. That was it I went ballistic at her and shouted with a few chosen F words that if it had bitten any of my girls I would have killed it, and I would have. I was f------ fuming and that is the only time that I have wanted to slap a woman, well apart from when an x girlfriend slapped my face in a crowded pub in the 70s. It just show's that your Whippets can be having some fun running round then around the corner comes an obese woman with an equally obese x breed thing and spoil what shoud be an enjoyable walk.

 

[TTT]

That is why when when I go walking, I take a walking stick :thumbsup:

 

[Hula]

That's one of the reasons I have my main walk of the day at 6am when light permits .

Less folk around at that time so less chance of meeting idiots :thumbsup:

 

[jinnyfizz]

You did the right thing :thumbsup:

It is a shame that any dog has to be subjected to physical discipline, but if the owner won't train the dog properly, someone has to do it before a disaster happens :blink:

 

[~Annie~]

Oh dear ... this doggy etiquette thing can be really complicated ... but no excuse for not recalling/leashing a dog that is behaving aggresively, daft woman ... don't beat yourself up over kicking her dog, you were protecting your girls :thumbsup:

 

[jeanyg]

Poor dog being owned by a numpty like her :angry:

So sorry you had to do that to the dog....but in a situation like that....many of us would have done the same.

Some humans are just a waste of space on this planet :thumbsup:

 

[Suerose]

People can be unbelievably stupid. :angry: I had to kick a jack russell once that was making aggressive lunges at Grace when she was a young pup. It was in our public park where it should have been on a lead and the woman who was with it made no effort at all to call it back. I don't think she even realised that it was being nasty because she was quite miffed about me kicking it! No way was I going to let it sink its teeth into Grace.

 

[masta]

playing devils advocate there will be a woman reliving her experience of a man kicking her dog and shouting obscenties at her maybe she was deaf and why the reference to her being obese? not something to be proud of what if it was your wife??

 

[TTT]

playing devils advocate there will be a woman reliving her experience of a man kicking her dog and shouting obscenties at her maybe she was deaf and why the reference to her being obese? not something to be proud of what if it was your wife??

None of that, in my opinion, is a good reson for not keeping her dog under control.

 

[wild whippies]

I had a run in yesterday!

Got up early to walk mine as I was off watching some dog racing in the afternoon with my pups.

Leashed up Dobber, the peddies and our bully whippet Sasha and headed for the canal. We live fairly rurally and I don't often encounter anyone on the fiels and in fairness the land is flat so you can see someone coming in plenty of time. I walk through a narrow passage then through a kissing gate to get on the canal and the dogs know it well so they're on leads leading through it. Unfortunately it's a bit of a blind spot to my left so I didn't see what was coming which happened to be a boxer at full pelt teeth bared. (well technically it had it's fur up and it's gob open -seeing teeth isn't that easy on a boxer!)

Sods law that it gripped the neck of my softest dog Nell who was absolutely petrified. I like a fool tried to grab the dogs collar but couldn't get hold because of the kissing gate and the peds trying to back off. Low and behold Dobber ( a dog I've always thought would panic and run off) went straight at it's neck along with Sasha who went for it's face! Now Sasha isn't the most active of whippets because she gets fatigue with all the muscle she's carrying but boy did she power into this dog - so much so that the dog seriously seen it's ass and through a combination of Dobber and Sasha advancing and the dog backing off it fell into the canall!

Found out later the dog's got form for attacking dogs - obviously the owner is ignorant to her dog's behaviour but I'm hoping it learnt a lesson today before it encounters Tony's scratch dogs. :-

 

[fallenangel]

Well done dobber and sasha maybe if the dogs got a few little bit marks and some money has to be spent ob vet bills the silly moo will think more carfully about her dog staying on its lead. but knowing theses numptys with antisocial dogs I dout it

 

[eve]

Unfortunately, there are too many irresponsible dog owners. If absolutely necessary, I would have kicked an attacking dog too if there was no other option. I would however prefer to land a good kick on the backside to owners who fail to control their agressive dogs.

I always walk my dogs early on Saturday and Sunday when the 'fairweather' dog owners take their underexercised frustrated dogs out for once weekly walk. Unfortunately, most owners of uncontrolled agressive dogs are not the brightest button in the box which is why these dogs are mismanaged and such incidents ocurr. A camera phone and the word 'Police' sometimes gets through.

I am lucky that on the whole owners of agressive dogs around here do tend to put them on a lead and or muzzle them.

 

[john gregory]

playing devils advocate there will be a woman reliving her experience of a man kicking her dog and shouting obscenties at her maybe she was deaf and why the reference to her being obese? not something to be proud of what if it was your wife??

What am I supposed to do, stand there and let a dog twice the size of a Whippet grab one of my girls around the throat and rip it out, I do'nt think so. As for the woman reliving her experience !!!!! she just stood there smirking all the time and what about the girls reliving their experience ? frightened to death with a snapping snarling dog near them. Even if the woman was deaf, which she was'nt, she could see her dog behaving like that. I have never swore at a woman before and do not regret any of my actions and if the situation happens again I would do the same again.

If the same thing happened to your dogs what would you do ? tell the nasty thing to go away.

 

[lalena]

john you were totally in the right, and who knows? maybe the dog itself will think twice before approaching another animal like it did, which can only be a good thing, particularly when owned by someone like that :angry: too many irresponsible owners out there ruining things for the rest of us.

hope your dogs are ok, it can take only one bad experience to change a dogs nature towards other dogs

 

[Janimal]

yet another case or irresponsible dog owners...not your fault John at all.....just stupid dog owners.... :rant: :angry:

theres just so many about these days....one of my pets hates is when they say 'Oh he/she is firendly as they rush up to us .......then my dogs take the disliking... :-

whose fault is it then?

 

[Lisa S]

I totally agree as I have had to kick dogs on 3 occasions which I don't like to do but I would protect my dog in any way that was necessary. It's OK people saying that you should let them sort it out but when a dog comes up totally focused on being agressive then I would say there is no other course of action especially if you only have 1 dog.

On the subject of stupid owners.... we were walking through the park the other day and my boy was on his lead and this man came walking towards us with a chiuaua off lead and running all over the place. It ran up to my dog and jumped up straight in his face and then continued to jump and sniff around him which my boy really dislikes and will usually get grumpy. The man simply walked straight on ignoring this until I shouted at him to get his dog and then he sauntered over and picked it up and gave me a filthy look and walked off :angry: How could he possibly know that my dog was not agressive and given the size of his dog some serious damage could be done with one bite! I looked around when we got further up the path and his dog was jumping around another dog on its lead - I fear the worst for that poor little dog....