To tell Dog owners control you fecking dogs!

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I'll get flamed I don't care. I'm fed up of people letting their dogs run wild just had another dog clamour all over me when I'm walking down the street with a 'sorry' from the owner again this happens to often. Last week a dog off its lead stuck its head near my child pram.
Its simple if you can't control your dog off its lead then keep it on its lead until you get to the park.
I think I'm going to go nuclear next time :(

The walk to school is like morse code in dog shit... Dot dot dash dot.
It's horrible.

I love dogs but I have developed a severe allergic reaction to them and I can even let them touch me or my clothes. I have explained this to a local lady who thinks it's ok to let her dog walk onto my garden, up the path and try to enter my house. Lady just thinks I am a miserable cow ( she mutters this under her breath)

Even if the dog is "harmless and friendly" that doesn't mean its attention is welcome.

ElectricalBanana I'd probably mutter "I'm allergic to rude people as well"!

I don't believe it's a few spoiling it for the many. More like 50% give a shit and 50% just leave shit.

I'm sick of running the gauntlet of dog walkers every morning on the way to school. My DS (6)was chased by a dog one morning. I waited for the woman to call it off and she did nothing. Her response to me was 1. no need to shout & 2. children need to get used to dogs anyway.
I was so appalled by her attitude that I reported it to the police as there have been so many incidents on the way to school that I think it's only a matter of time before a child is actually injured.

(if I were you, not her!)

I am a dog owner and because I have more contact with other dogs now, because dogs like to say hello to each other the problem has become more apparent to me.

laregina same here, I dare not take my little toddler to parks now, as they are loaded with huge mountains of vile shit.

In new york I noticed special areas for dogs in parks, so much better. Why on earth should whole parks be given over to vile beasts?

For me it's the, "Oh, he's ever so friendly..."

Don't care if he's friendly.

DS is still scared.

He's still muddy, has sharp claws, stinks and has drool hanging from his gob.

The day I let one of my pets lunge at a stranger and cover them in mud, scratches and saliva will be the day civilisation has collapsed completely..!

I waited for the woman to call it off and she did nothing

This is a huge bug bear of mine.

I have been stood, with my little dog on a lead, and a large lab, Jumping up at me, making contact with me, wanting my dogs treats and the owner was in the near distance chatting and watching I was going round in circles holiday a lead and my DD's hand! [cross].

Another time I was walking my dog by river and a lady shouted over
" he's got a look in 'is eye. He may go for yer, just warnin' yer"

Pointing at her dog lying in the grass!

children need to get used to dogs anyway

Oh do they! With so many dog attacks around I think children need to have a healthy fear of most dogs actually.

Oh, and I had a Betterware pusher let her dog into my home.

I opened the dog and in trots her dirty, flea ridden animal. Was on a stretchy lead and she just let him in!

I had to say "Excuse me?" quite nastily and push the dog back out with my door before she realised her social faux pas.

Made me feel less guilty about chucking her pamplet of wank straight into the bin though.

For me it's the, "Oh, he's ever so friendly..."

Agree,

The last time someone said that to me, their friendly sheep dog suddenly turned on my dog and sank its teeth in. They were very nice about it, came to check my dog, said its never done it before.....

I would like to see all breeds with the ability to do considerable harm with one bite, muzzled.

No one would be scared, yes the dog could knock you over and scare you, but that massive danger of a child's face being torn asunder, would be gone.

I agree that children should not be forced to interact or like dogs but being afraid of them won't prevent them getting attack

children are being forced though, where ever you go, parks, beaches...massive horrid looking beasts come lunging up.

children are also naive and usually love animals as they are taught from being tiny.

My children used to love dogs and still would love to have a dog. They always asked before patting a dog in the street. The continual jumping up/running at them of aggressive dogs in open parks has made them eventually frightened though- three out of control ones jumped up recently and were called off (eventually) by the rather mean looking owner who didn't say sorry or anything. My dd2 is now showing signs of being scared of big dogs and I don't blame her. We've interacted nicely and been positive and given them many doggie experiences, but there's too many people out there who don't give a shit, and unfortunately there's lots of status dogs round here and those are the ones we've had issues with.

I opened the dog and in trots her dirty, flea ridden animal.

Charming.

No wonder I prefer dogs.

Agree Thetall

we have one dog looks like a mastif cross huge thing, soppy stupid owners, look at the dog adoringly as its trying to lunge at my DC from across the street. Its well known for lunging round here, people visiting me with labs have said their dog is too scared to come out when its there.

dogs can turn on a six pence, there is no time for mistakes if a dog with a big gob wants to turn.

My dad taught me a move to do with my arms when a dog leaps up at me.

I've never actually done it but it's supposed to 'deter' them (whatever that means).

What are the laws/guidelines on 'using reasonable force' on a dog who's jumping up at you/slobbering all over you/mistaken your child for a Bonio?

A friend's dog bites and pulls at your clothes, even when you're just sitting there. I stopped going round there after he bit a freshly stitched wound on my hand but he's still free to do it in the street.

Again, the owners say, "Oh, he's only playing..!"

of course, childrens faces are usually same as dogs too.

meant, the same height as dogs, and we are told not to eye ball dogs.

countdown the same happened to me when I was pregnant (think I've posted before about it). I was hit over but managed to avoid my bump, was left in tears and pain. All the owner said as they virtually legged it was, 'it's a rescue dog'.

Also been in a local park playing frisbee in play area and when it landed on floor a dog bounded over. Before dh could grab frisbee dog had bitten through it (was a thin ultimate frisbee style sports one!) and damaged it. We confronted the owner who said we shouldn't play near dogs, we were in a designated sports bit of park, supposedly dog free according to rules as her dog always liked to chase balls etc. I went absolutely ballistic at her attitude. So obnoxious and entitled.

Charming.

No wonder I prefer dogs.

Why?

It was dirty. And given how dirty/unkempt it was it most likely had fleas.

I don't want fleas in my home.

And I didn't invite the animal in. Someone just assumed I wouldn't mind.

I agree with ninja, is it not like me knocking on someone's door and just pushing through as soon as it's open? Even if I am muddy and uninvited?

YANBU. I do like dogs, but I hate dogs off the lead and in our town all the kids play areas seem to be part of bigger fields where dogs are off the lead. Had a bit of a panic the other day when a dog started sprinting towards me and the toddler, his owner did call him back so it was fine but it was still a bit scary.

Big dog fight this morning in the park on the way to the train station. Younger woman with a staffie, I think, not on a lead, and an older woman with some sort of terrier on a lead. The staffy ran over to the terrier and then they started fighting, couldn't see which dog started it. But the staffie owner was miles away, it took her what felt like a minute of running to reach the dogs - and then she started having a massive go at this other women, calling the terrier a "fucking bastard" and "evil dogs" and saying it needed to be leashed. But surely it almost doesn't matter which dog bit first, it was the dog off the leash that was the problem?

I felt so sorry for the older women because the younger women just kept shouting abuse at her as she tried to walk away. Plus there were about twenty of us walking down the path at the side of the park edging towards the fencing in case the dogs really started going for it!

I do get that dogs need big runs, but I just wish there was somewhere else for them to do it than in parks in town centres that loads of people walk through and there are kids play areas too.

I agree wholeheartedly with the OP as we now live in an area scattered liberally with dog poo, and quite a few crap owners who don't control their dogs.
Also agree with PP that reckons it's more of a 50/50 split of good/bad owners, not a small minority of bad owners.

I don't react as I would like to as I don't want to make DS afraid of dogs. I want to shout to the owners to keep their dog away/under control/pick up after it/put it on lead etc, but to do so isn't appropriate in most circumstances (owner too far from dog to hear etc) and frankly it's not my place/job to police bad dog owners.

Surely after so many high profile attacks and fatalities the Govt need to review dog licensing? It's craziness to let this continue, and does no favours to anyone but the irresponsible owners.