To think, if you can't recall your dog, it shouldn't be off lead?

[fanaticalfairy]

The amount of bloody loose yappy, jumpy dogs my 4 year old comes across, where the owner ineffectually tries to call them back is ridiculous now!

One time I had to ask owner to call back, as the dog was being ridiculous, and he was like "Coco..... Coco..... Coco..... Coco.....".

Multiple times, I've ended up taking them by the collar back to their owners who then look like I've dragged them by the ears or something.

Keep them on the fucking lead!!!

Are you children you mind giants? Or rather the same size as medium sized dogs like most toddlers?

As a dog owner whose dog has terrible recall, I never let him off the lead. I also believe that all dogs should be kept on leads in parks etc and only off lead in dog enclosures, mine has been attacked by an off lead dog where the owner has said your dog must have done something as he never normally does that! Yes mate he was walking along at the side of me when your dog attacked from behind, it must be my dogs fault! Luckily my dog wasn't hurt.

So my 13 year old, well trained, never failed to recall collie should have to go on his lead because of dick heads who can't control their dogs? I think not.

In public places I believe all dogs should be on a lead, that's my opinion and am entitled to it the same as you are entitled to yours

YANBU nobody wants an out of control dog (or anything else for that matter! including children).

If you’ve hired and paid for sole use of a field then crack on.

Toddlers don't open gates and shouldn't be playing with them....what about the fox and deer pooh

As a dog owner, I'm sick of it.
"He's friendly"
"He just wants to say hello"
"Dogs need to play with each other"
"Oh he never listens!"
"It'll teach him a lesson if she goes for him"

I'm sure there's more, but they're just piss poor excuses for not bothering to either train your dog, or keep it under control if training isn't good enough, or interact with it while you're walking it.

I mean why bother having a dog if you're not going to interact with it? If you expect everyone else to entertain it for you? Other people to teach it a lesson? If you're not going to teach it to listen to you or if that fails (because it's not always bulletproof) then use other methods to keep it safe? I mean if it never listens what are you going to do if it runs towards a road?

There's so many people with high energy, high prey drive dogs who think that endless walks are the answer, go to the same place day after day, don't interact with the dog or engage it's brain by providing activities that satisfy it's breed and then wonder why they have a very fit nut job that gets over excited at the sight of something different like another dog, person, horse etc. Or worse they don't even realise that's not how a well adjusted dog behaves and think it's cute or funny.

Many also don't understand basic dog body language, the amount that I've been told are just being friendly when in fact they're being dominant and sometimes aggressive. But the tail is wagging so the owner thinks it's all good because they're not looking at the rest of the dog or understanding what they're seeing.

I will tell an approaching dog no, and block it, and I don't care if it offends the owners, if you're not going to control your dog, I'm going to advocate for mine and they don't want or need to be jumped all over or be at risk of being attacked.