Honestly!!! Walking Bramble and Benson off lead today, in front was a couple with a young spaniel on a extending lead bouncing up and down..adorable. They asked if they could socialise their dog with mine..I said (with a smile.) No thank you...in reply I got called a snooty cow..I was really taken aback..how rude! Bramble was in an irritable mood anyhow.. after having a staffie repeatedly running up to her when she was in "work mode" meaning she really, really doesn't like to be interrupted. In the end I had to call the owner to get her dog. She called out saying "I don't mind! My dog needs to be told off!" God do I hate that!!! I said "well I don't actually want my dog to be in the position of telling off anyone"...sigh.. So both myself and Bramble were in a very irritable mood by the end of the walk...with Benson just skipping along beside us chasing butterflies! Nice glass of wine in hand...think however Bramble could do with one too!
Wow, how rude! Couple of bogans right there. And I thought all English people were polite and self-effacing
How rude indeed You are so good at keeping your cool Kate. David had an odd request whilst walking Charlie last weekend, a lady had an off lead Lurcher, she yelled out "can you let your dog off lead as mine doesn't like dogs on lead" David said "Sorry no can you please put your dog on lead" guess what? she didn't and the dog pestered Charlie who thankfully behaved whilst David did LAT, a good training opportunity despite her unhelpful attitude. I do wonder sometimes what planet some dog owners reside on Enjoy the wine, you Kate not Bramble
Very rude of them to be so assumptive ! Sam is the same Kate , when he is doing gundoggery , he hates some interloper crashing through the rough, looking to play ,he usually blanks them completely and then I get told that my dog is " strange " for not wanting to play ! As my old Yorkshire Grandpop used to say " Nowt so queer as folk "
Some people are unbelievable! Harley doesn't like dogs jumping all over her and some dog owners don't get it and say 'they are only trying to play'. I now tell them that if they try and jump over her that she will tell them off and I don't want her to have to do it and I get Harley by me, sat down, ignoring the other dog. It's so frustrating. Enjoy your wine s
On glass number 2 ...or maybe 3 ...going down well! hic.... Bramble is a little like Harley...I just don't want my dog to be used to "tell off" another, it means Bramble has a poor experience as well as the other dog...sigh...
Wow, how rude! Where do people get off thinking they can snap just because someone doesn't do what you want them to do.
Enjoy the wine! I had a 'some people!' moment too this afternoon. I was walking with a friend on a walk we hadn't done for some months, so Wispa in particular was very much on her toes and excited, particularly as it involves water! While she was playing in a pond, a dogless couple overtook us but we later caught them up going uphill through the woods. Although we tried to hang back, as they didn't seem very dog-friendly, Wispa was keen to keep going, so we decided it would be better to overtake. My friend was a bit ahead of me, so she went first with the dogs and Wispa showed more than a passing interest in the couple. I called to her to 'walk on' and my friend managed to encourage her on with Tuppence, but she kept looking back for me. Did the couple stop to let me pass? Not a bit of it! They carried on regardless, with the path winding steadily uphill so I couldn't run to overtake and squeeze past! Wispa fortunately decided to keep walking, but it seemed ages before they stopped to admire the view and I got past to catch up with the dogs! I needed a glass of wine too when I got home!
Willow is the same - if she's working, she does not appreciate being bounced on. Maybe it's a girl thing - Shadow wouldn't care at all (as long as it was a girl dog or one of his mates) Enjoy your wine! We're off to a wine festival this afternoon. J is driving. Hic! I'm returning the favour tomorrow
Jura is the same. If we are working and another dog doesn't take the more subtle "I'm not interested" signals and continues to jump on her then it will lead to her telling it off. As for the it's ok my dog needs a good telling off comment, that just infuriates me!
No, it's not a girl thing. Betsy is keen to bounce and be bounced on at any time! It's a different types of dog thing. The thing I find the funniest is when someone asks their own dog shall we say hello? Like they think their dog has a say in the matter! Yesterday mine were not focussed at the start off an off lead walk (before their leads come off). Ok, so we'll just stand her until you are guys, because I'm not rewarding flailing around like nutters with leads coming off for an off lead run. Woman with a black Lab walks by and he pulls towards mine. I move them a little further away and turn back to them. Woman says to her dog 'shall we say hello?'. I say 'no thank you'. And she says to her dog - in a huffed, offended tone - no, come on, they said no thank you. What? What?
I have to admit, I used to get a bit put out if someone didn't want to let their dog greet Brogan. Even if he wasn't working, I always kept him close and didn't give him permission to approach another dog (i.e. "Go play") unless I got the nod from the other dog's human. If they said no, I tended to think that it was because BROGAN was the problem - big scary Rottweiler and all that. It was the most common reason and I just learned to live with it as did Brogan. However, having Toby for the last few weeks has given me the perspective from the other end of the leash, just as your post here has. You just never know the reasons the other person declines a "meet and greet" and it may have nothing to do with your dog or you. They may be working, their dog may be older and getting pounced on could hurt him, they may have a reactive dog...heck, they may just have limited time for the daily walk and can't spare the five minutes for the dogs to do the butt-sniffing routine. No need to get huffy on either side, just keep walking. Today Toby was the recipient of an unwanted "happy assault" from an overly friendly and extremely large black Lab. His owner was way down the beach and waved his arms and yelled "No hace nada!" (he doesn't do anything). Well, poor Toby is really good with other dogs EXCEPT very large black dogs who aggressively pounce on him to play. We're working on it, but he's not there yet. Understandably, he went off on Mr. No Hace Nada Dog. No physical harm done, but weeks of slow and positive socialisation probably went down the drain right there.
On a lighter note..and kinda linked to @JulieT post, if I am training something, that maybe goes a bit wrong. I do talk to my dogs, ...something like ..."Oh whoops, sorry Benson, that was my fault, don't you worry about it..do you want to have another go? Or try something a bit easier?" Then I look furtively behind me hoping no-one is listening! Now surely I am not the only one???
I'm one of the crazies who speaks to my dog properly "No boo, we're busy at the minute you can't go and play right now" or "shall we ask if you can say hello". But if the owner says no I just smile and say no problem. I've said no before too if we're busy. It's awful that's people would be so rude about it.
Probably no real harm done, just a few little paws back maybe At the time though it feels awful! Working with Casper, who was truly a reactive dog, it hasn't been a linear journey at all, all over the place really, he has improved though enormously. The odd setback didn't appear to make that much difference, as long as I balanced the next few days out a bit. For example, Casper didn't have a good walk yesterday, Bramble was in an odd mood, I was tired and a bit irritable, so the end result was an unsettled Casper. So today, total calm, no public walks, just games in the paddock, gentle retrieving and maybe some target work..he loves that!
Terrible Some people are seriously rude, that would really upset me for a long time. People have asked for my lab to play or if their dogs could greet, and I always say he's too boisterous and I'm working on getting him to be calm. Everyone has always been understanding so far, thankfully!
`Fraid I also talk to my dogs , even though Nell cant hear me !!! But I do , I even ask which path we should take, how crackers is that ? but at almost 70 years old , I reckon I can be a bit crackers without caring too much
