Post by Kara Collie-Cross on Mar 23, 2012 10:17:17 GMT
"Interesting" start to my morning.... Dropped other half at the station at 7am then proceeded to Bute park in centre of town with Kara... Lovely great walk, hardly anyone out at the time, dog running around woods, sniffing, birdies tweeting, all well.... Until we crossed the bridge over the river...
There is a woman, I've seen her before, she has about 10+ dogs with her. I doubt she's a professional dog walker. I've seen her van, covered in paw stickers and stickers of dogs but doesn't look like a business, I think they're all hers and she looks like she's in her 60s or so... The dogs are anything and everything, all sorts from Jack Russels, to border collies and three Great Danes.
Well these 3 GDs saw us walking over the Weir bridge, ran towards us and blocked our path all baring their teeth at Kara who was hiding behind my legs!!
The woman was playing with half of her pack by the river and not paying much attention to where the rest were, so I called her to recall her dogs but she could barely hear me.
Then one dog stepped forward and tried to get at Kara behind me. I shouted at it but it carried on moving forward and wacked him with my ball thrower. She could hear me shouting and started paying some attention and called her dogs (with no real sense of urgency though!), and they paid no attention to her whatsoever. The dogs let off after I wacked them a few times and I then had words with her from some distance.
Got the usual b*ll*cks of "They're young dogs they just want to play", to which I replied that if she feels she needs to own 10 dogs perhaps she could make some effort of doing some recall training with them. Those Danes came up to my waist and were fully grown not puppies, and they were aggressive without provocation. A further slanging match took place and I was very close to whacking her with the remaining end of my ball thrower, but thought better of it. I've got her number plate and I'm thinking of reporting her (to whom I'm not sure yet, LOL) but I guess it's one of those things no one will give a shit about.
I'm all for people's dog's being allowed to run off lead in parks etc, but for god's sake make them listen to you?!
I'm a pretty experienced dog owner and not easily intimidated, but heck they scared even me and I take narky doggie behaviour with a huge pinch of salt but that was something else. Any normal person would have crapped themselves.
Has this happened to you? What do you do? Is there any point doing anything??
There is a woman, I've seen her before, she has about 10+ dogs with her. I doubt she's a professional dog walker. I've seen her van, covered in paw stickers and stickers of dogs but doesn't look like a business, I think they're all hers and she looks like she's in her 60s or so... The dogs are anything and everything, all sorts from Jack Russels, to border collies and three Great Danes.
Well these 3 GDs saw us walking over the Weir bridge, ran towards us and blocked our path all baring their teeth at Kara who was hiding behind my legs!!
The woman was playing with half of her pack by the river and not paying much attention to where the rest were, so I called her to recall her dogs but she could barely hear me.
Then one dog stepped forward and tried to get at Kara behind me. I shouted at it but it carried on moving forward and wacked him with my ball thrower. She could hear me shouting and started paying some attention and called her dogs (with no real sense of urgency though!), and they paid no attention to her whatsoever. The dogs let off after I wacked them a few times and I then had words with her from some distance.
Got the usual b*ll*cks of "They're young dogs they just want to play", to which I replied that if she feels she needs to own 10 dogs perhaps she could make some effort of doing some recall training with them. Those Danes came up to my waist and were fully grown not puppies, and they were aggressive without provocation. A further slanging match took place and I was very close to whacking her with the remaining end of my ball thrower, but thought better of it. I've got her number plate and I'm thinking of reporting her (to whom I'm not sure yet, LOL) but I guess it's one of those things no one will give a shit about.
I'm all for people's dog's being allowed to run off lead in parks etc, but for god's sake make them listen to you?!
I'm a pretty experienced dog owner and not easily intimidated, but heck they scared even me and I take narky doggie behaviour with a huge pinch of salt but that was something else. Any normal person would have crapped themselves.
Has this happened to you? What do you do? Is there any point doing anything??