Dog owners very irresponsible letting them of leafs on walks knowing they too can spread covid19?

[mumieone]

Today on my permitted walk in semi rural area two men having a day on the beach just let thier dog run wild with no consideration for social distancing.

With reports on dogs, cats and the latest tiger having symptoms and testing positive for covid19 should dig owners be allowed to let thier dogs just jump on passers by?

I saw the dog coming and moved about 4 metres away from the men. One just lit up a fab and did nothing and the other watched.

When I moved the dig chased me as I ran to try to climb up a hill. I threw stones near it to try to deter but didn't work and owner eventually took him and said he was being friendly. More like dangerous. I said look we are all trying to social distance and who knows if your dog has covid19 and some of us are trying to keep ourselves and others safe and social distance!

Shouldnt dog owners be more careful?

😂 what are you on OP
Whatever it is you need start selling it - it’s pretty good stuff

Your typo gives a lovely mental picture of a tiny dog sitting on a leaf.

I hate it when dogs are off there leads and run upto my pram, the owners don’t even give a shit. Not everyone wants to stroke your germ ridden dog and not everyone thinks dogs are cute, I especially don’t want it near my baby and I’m not taking any chances with the fact they could carry corona seeing as that tiger did.

Dogs cant spread Covid. Fact. However well done OP for giving more selfish arseholes an excuse to dump their dogs. The shelters are already overrun thanks to idiots like you

Dogs should only be off leads currently if their owner had total control of them. I was out with mine the other day and an owner had to come very close to me to get her dog as she had zero control. That to me is unnaceptable.

Dogs should always be under control whether or not they can spread Covid_19.

All the mistakes are the only thing that makes this post interesting

Yes the owner was an idiot letting the dog run up to you but, you are a complete drama queen and nasty by throwing stones at a dog.

"Lit up a fab": what, one of those 1970s stripy ice lollies?

JKScot4 ...at least I don't have coronavirus from not social distancing.

Go back and read. Throwing stones AT and throwing stones NEAR!

If the owner is not concerned about human beings safety do you honestly think I'm concerned about contracting something from a pet I did not elect to be mine. What...as some charitable cause?

You can’t get Covid 19 from a DOG!!!
And running like an idiot will only make a chasey dog chase you!!!

Don’t throw stones at a dog! But yes owners should either have dog on lead or under absolute supervision (as always really). I was upset the other day as someone let their off lead husky run up to me and jump all over my on lead dog- bad manners at best of times but the man had to come and drag the dog off, meaning he came right up to me as his dog had zero recall (he only tried to call him off when I asked him to 🙄).

Itsjustme 😂...sunshine and fresh air with a little bit of craziness I expect.

Our park says the dogs are supposed to be on a lead. I assumed it was because they come up and say hello (as fogs do) and the owner follows to call them away (and gets too close).

Noone bothers anyway - or even keeps them on a lead by the lake (where there are always signs up), stops them chasing the geese and swans, or jumping in the lake (often throwing sticks in for them to chase).

I've just had the same "debate" on the community facebook page. Suddenly all the non walkers who are frightened of dogs are posting to ask everyone to keep their dogs on a lead whilst they are on their daily "exercise" walk. One woman in particular posted last night urging everyone (everyone) to put their dogs on a lead and as she was scared of dogs it was not fair on her. She hadn't encountered any frightening dogs apparently but just in case any of us were to bump into her at any time around a large surrey village and its surrounding areas please could we do this as a precaution. Those who perhaps disagreed were told off for not "being kind". You couldn't make this shit up.

Curiousaboutsampire...
He WHO has no evidence of animals having it (as on March 19).

New York zoo has since disproven this with a tiger showing symptomd and being tested positive.

Hong Kong also DID test a dog before March 19 which was positive and displayed a mild form of canine covid. The dog was quarantined ...don't know outcome.

So in light of the fact that there is now conclusive evidence that animals do get it covid19 whether they display symptoms or not...and the fact that we DO know that the version carried in animals (like swine flu) and like the story of the Wuhan wet market where the virus reportedly jumped species from animal to human. I do not elect myself to be a TEST candidate to see if an infected dog jumps on me to see if I will get sick.

Pet owners just be mindful ....serious times call for serious measures. I don't care how silly I look keeping safe I will continue to do so.

You are being very unreasonable no dogs can’t give you bloody covid 19 and if you had thrown stones at my dog you’d have more than that to worry about

Nowhere near enough research has been done to find whether animals can really contract coronavirus and pass it on. There has only been a few isolated cases of animals being infected with it and I'm taking them with a big pinch of salt. China was already trying to pin the blame on dogs and cats before the pomeranian 'caught' corona so I don't think we can trust the reliability of that.

While dogs may not be able to transmit the virus themselves, they can carry germs on their fur so until we get this situation sorted, dogs should be kept on leads near other people.

Dog probably was just being friendly. If you run from a dog, it will often chase because it thinks you are playing a game. Throwing stones at an animal purely because you don't want it near you is not ok. To be fair, the owner should have intervened and moved his dog.

I'm dreading the next few weeks because people will accept this really shoddy scientific 'evidence' as law and use it as an excuse to hurt innocent animals.

I think you're more likely to injure yourself by scrabbling up hills (mountains?), running away and being chased by a dog then falling over perhaps than catching Covid 19 from a rabid beast.

More than a little bit of craziness and far too much sun and a lack of air I’d wager.

All the mistakes are the only thing that makes this post interesting

Yup

@Georgia2001

Same. But don’t be too hard on this poster. It is their first time. And they have chosen a goady post to open with.

Funny that.

Littlemeadow123 don't dread it. Just follow the rules which have always been there ...out the dog on a leash.

And for us humans let's also follow the rules and social distance.

The only problems likely to come out of this are from people thinking they have some personal god given right to break the rules.

First post with yet another dogs on/off leads and dogs spreading Covid tale.

Dogs should be under appropriate control.

Cosmos We've bumped into people like that, but the ones we saw screamed and yanked their child off the side of a path when there were no dogs near them. Apparently just being in eye sight of my dogs (on very short lead and walking immaculately to heel) was enough to warrant this outburst. Said woman then loudly told their child that they have to be careful around big scary dogs. 🙄
I think we can see where any future fear of dogs will stem from in the child.

Lordfrontpaw...no the dog was not on a leash. I'm not sure the owner actually had one

It was in a part of the country where birds nest and yes there are signs to keep dogs on leashes which dog owners think they are above for this that or the other reason.