Now if you were walking your dog and children and a woman with two dogs gave you this warning what would you do?

[bananaknickers]

I was walking my dog along the country lane where I live, I had five children with me. I came across a woman who I have since found out lives up the road, so I will bump into her again. When we walked past her and her two English bulldogs she was struggling to hold them back and said to me " you had better get a move , I can't hold these back for much longer".
I just speed off in shock I think and worried about the saftey of my dog and the children.
This dosen't sit right with me though. Should I be reporting her? If so who to and what for?

I would have taken it as in that they would have been all over your dog. Might not mean that they are vicious.

The problem you do have is that if you report her and someone goes to investigate it, she may realise who it was and if you live close it could cause problems.

Toughie though.

I would just think she had badly behaved dogs, and avoid her like the plague next time I see her

I would leave it. she probably didn't mean they would eat your dc's.

Maybe she is just dog-sitting for a few days, and they are much better behaved for their owner.

i would take it to mean that the dogs are too strong for her and she didn't want to be one of those women that you see posted about on MN that has no control over their dogs

lol I think if I see her and I am not with the dog I will ask her what she meant by it. Why would you take two dogs out that you can't control at the same time though ?
By the way only 3 of the children are mine

It is a bit silly really. Wether they are her own or someone elses dogs, if she cant control them, then she needs to do something about it.

Surely she cant get any joy out of them of she cant control them.

I sometimes meet a woman who walks a st bernard, she can't control it and it has run up to us as it just pulls away from her. Last time it came running up to us she said 'serves you right if it goes for you!' I though she meant me and my dogs (didn't have dd with me that time although I sometimes do) I said 'excuse me!?' but turns out she was talking to her dog, not me, meaning my old collie who was grumbling a bit might go for her dog, but as she's 15 arthritic, cataracts, deaf etc she's a bit past it and just grumnbles, I was concerned about her st bernard jumping at us though and feel I should ask her why she has a dog she can't control! Not worth reporting anything to anyone though as no-one can do anything until something happens, and if its dog on dog no one will do anything anyway.