I've just seen a 3 legged dog. It didn't chase me.
I've just seen a 3 legged dog. It didn't chase me.
Brilliant! Just like Monty Python's How to Do It:thumbup:Originally Posted by noel
I've just seen a 3 Dogged Leg!
I did search the forums before posting, but my brief search brought up 6 pages of unlikely looking thread titles.
The breeds are a retriever and what appears to be some kind of cross-breed. The owner was very apologetic saying the dog should be on a lead but ultimately she can't control it.
I could try the 'Act scarier than the dog' tactic and try the domination route, however if i see her again I'll slow right down and if the dogs still aren't on a lead I may mention what happened this morning.
Come on sensible research has no place on this thread.
Damn right Dr Pat :closed:
Poacher turned game-keeper
I got chased by some Shetland ponies once, it had comedy value but was also a bit humiliating!
Me and a friend were walking down Kirkland in Kendal one afternoon a few years ago. We were flying off to the Rockies for a back-country hiking trip the following day and were just getting our final provisions together. I decided to pay a last minute visit to Pete Blands. "What do you want in there?" he asked. "Some new inov-8s" I replied, "in case we meet a bear." He paused for a second, laughed, and said "Don't waste your cash. You'll never outrun a bear." "It'll be money well spent," I replied, my friend quietly smiling still. "I don't need to outrun the bear. I just need to outrun you!"
Doesn't matter what breed of dog it is. Simply put a dog behaving in an out of control manner in a public place falls under the dangerous dogs act, (1993 if memory serves).
And as such can be reported to the police, taken from the owner and destroyed.
However it becomes a bit more difficult when the dog attack occurs on private property, even if the dog strays on to your property through a hole in the fence your neighbour was supposed to maintain. At this point 'Rover', 'Fido', 'Spot' or whichever bullshit lovable name the owner came up with for the 8 stone of muscle currently chewing on your child's face will decry any responsibility, claiming it's your responsibility for allowing your child to be in your garden. As such the dog will not be taken away and destroyed, but simply kenneled, until the law has taken it's due process and allowed it blow over. In the meantime your child will be scarred for life and you will have to move.
Probably having to give up your own dog in the process.
Yes I am a dog owner, but feel that some dog owners could do more to train and control their dogs properly. That goes for the dozy cow at the park who seems to think having your dog ten foot away on a long lead is under control, it's not, it's ten foot away from you!! The dozy sods on their bikes who got upset because their dog stopped to have a sniff of my dog, and looked even more annoyed when mine came when called. Here's a trick walk the dog, not try and control it on your bike. And lastly to the bloke whose dog is staring to get aggressive because he's too chicken shit to get the thing castrated, just do it, it's a dog not your son!
Sorry bit of a tangent there, but some lovely examples of what you see when you out and about.
If they were Yorkies or Chuhuahuahs it would be hilarious.
In fact I might start a dogs, who have taken drugs in sport, thread - just for kicks.
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