Dog Walkers/Owners

I agree, and have seen bags of dog poo suspended in trees, its not good.

But, why are there not more bins?
And why are they not emptied?

I think, and its only my personal thought, but the most un-environmentally part about it all is the plastic bag, to be honest.

The poo breaks down naturally and very quickly in the summer especially, the plastic bag takes years.
But then I've walked in it as well. and its not nice.

Same old story, too many dogs in too smaller space, just like us humans.

 

Interesting read. Walking a dog out in my area is not a social experience. It is rare to pass anyone. A fairly solitary experience. Down long quiet country roads. Sometime folks will be outside and wave. I would always travel with my guys to local stores to keep up with their social exposure and expected gentlemen conduct with people.

 

Mixed experiences for me... many people are unsure of Abi (GSD). Men are more scared of her than women. Saying that, I have made good friends with other dog walkers and we meet up for group walkies. Abi mostly walks off lead, but if I see another dog on a lead I pop one back on Abi. Her recall is pretty good, but she can be a rascal.

 

I know someone that wouldn't pick up after his dog, so one day someone pick up his dog poo, and post it through his letter box, in envolops and done something to it, knocked on the door, the person came to the door put had to stamp on the envolop

you can imagine what happen, white carpets with brown dots

by the way it was not me

He now picks up his dogs poo, but he learnt the hard way

 

I have similar issues with my GSD, she's a sweetie really, but many people are terrified of her, including my neighbours. She doesn't like other dogs though, but is mostly fine with people. We got her from the police, so are having to sort out her training and socialising skills.

 

That's interesting! I would have thought, as an ex-police dog, she would favour other dogs and be wary of people!? How old is she? Was she a trained Police dog, or, from a Police litter?

 

This is a hot topic locally at the moment.
Seems a group of parents at this school have had enough.

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/poll_dog...post_excrement_through_letter_boxes_1_1736607

 

It doesn't help when people are nervous because the dogs pick up on this and it's a bugger to keep things nice and calm. Why did the police give her up... retirement?

 

That's what I'm confused over: retired Police dogs most often stay with their owner. But, there is a market for pups from Police dogs; hence my question.

 

The main problem I think, is people straight away put their hands,on their heads or backs. They need to sniff your hands first and then they will allow you to pat, if somebody walked up to you and tried to touch the top of your head, you would shy away, they need to understand you are not going to hurt them.

I have always had big dogs, don`t really trust anything below my knee height,we had over 30 dogs in Ireland as we bred them, and have gone in between dogs fighting, tended dogs in pain or injured ,and have never been bitten in my life.

 

Honestly, I find owning a GSD really hard work (lol, I've never had a dog before so you can only imagine what a shock it's been)! She is territorial... this is a massive problem. She will bark at the window as if she'd rip someone to pieces, so having visitors is fun!

When people are willing, I'll let her greet them, but if they're nervous... forget it! Recently a guy came round to fix the boiler and bless him, when I explained that I was training Abi to leave visitors alone, he agreed she could be let out. So once the guy had got his tools out, I filmed Abi's reaction:



As the chap was leaving he said that he'd been bitten last year by a customer's dog and needed 14 stitches... hmmm, and then volunteer to meet my girl... brave or stupid!

 

When we had "Chloe" our G.S.D. she was nasty,we had her as a grown dog ,I always had to shut her in a separate room ,where she would try and rip the door off. I always told everybody who had to come into property,she is shut in THAT room, where you don`t need to go, she doesn`t bark she doesn`t growl, SHE BITES.Then made 100% sure they understood me.
Still had the telephone repair man try to sue us though.

 

What was Chloe like away from the property Pam? I feel I have to knuckle down with Abi's training because she's still quite young... I find it stressful having her so hostile towards visitors.

 

My sister got a rescue dog once, which was fine around everyone, except me. I must have looked like the dog's previous horrible owner or something because when the poor mut saw me, she bolted in blind terror.

I grew up around animals so I learned a thing or two about body language. So when my sister was ready to coaxed the terrified pooch back into the room where I was, I sat on the floor, on my bum, legs stretched in front of me, totally relaxed, sort of facing the door but not directly. This is universal for 'I'm not going to hurt you but nor am I submitting to you'. Many people crouch down, believing they are making themselves less intimidating by making themselves smaller. That is universal language for 'I'm watching you from my low profile vantage point, and from here I can launch at you with no warning, like a cat ready to pounce'

 

We could not let her off the choke, she was just vile to everybody,we thought she had been either abused or as a guard and encouraged.
She was very loving to us though,
I remember out walking with her once amongst the dunes and a dog appeared, ran at us she went for it, it ran off then kept coming back, eventually the owner meandered into view, when I asked her to please restrain her dog ,she abused me for having a wild dog and said she should be muzzled.