Please keep your dog on a lead by roads! Not a horror story

[ellangirl]

Witnessed a dog leg it away from his owner today straight across a busy road. The reasons was it spotted my cat Neither dog nor cat hurt I must add, but it could have been a different story. Even the best trained dog can forget itself sometimes, and you really don't want that to be the last time...

[coffeeinbed]

Could not agree more.
I see dogs off lead on the street all the time and it makes me want to weep.
It only takes a cat, a squirrel or a discarded salmon sandwich...

[Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme]

Saw a dog running about in our village last year. It came across the road at me & my dog straight out in front of a lorry. The poor lorry driver screeched to a halt but couldn't avoid it. He'd almost come to a stop by then so he thankfully didn't hit it very hard but it was enough to knock it off it's feet. It got up and disappeared down the path. A lady came out of a garden opposite and said she knew the owner. I said if I see it loose again I'll take it to a rescue centre. I haven't actually seen it again. I don't know whether it got rehomed or run over.

[Signet2012]

Yep - mine ran into the side of a bus the other week. He Wanted to kill said bus I think.

Stupid dog.

NEVER done that in his 8 years!

[sunflowerseeds]

A friend's dog was at the end of his lead as they went around a corner. Dog stepped off the kerb and was run over and killed. It wasn't an extending lead, dog wasn't a metre away from his owner.

[ellangirl]

I'm sorry to have brought up these traumatic incidents. It just makes me so angry people don't realise the consequences for themselves or others of not keeping dogs on a lead near traffic. sunflower I'm so sorry to hear about your friends dog, that is a real tragedy.

[Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme]

God Sunflower that's awful.

I have a walk to school like that every day. We have to turn a corner into a road with no path right by a house so you can't see round the corner. I always stand in the road and herd the dc's round so if anyone gets hit by a sudden car it'll be me.

[Signet2012]

With us it was our own fault - we got complacent. 7 years he had never ran off just something on that night made him want to take on a bus! Luckily he was fine but it could of been the end of him. Stark reminder that no matter how well behaved they are unpredictable animals.

[Scuttlebutter]

I hate seeing dogs off lead near roads - it's lethal.

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