Recalled from a cat AND a pheasant

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  1. EmmaHughes

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    I have been there a few times too
     
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    It is hard to explain but it’s a field with an avenue of trees. With the trees blocking a direct path I had to pass between them to get to her. I took the quickest and most efficient way to get her back as quickly as I could.It would of taken longer to get back to her than to just call her.If it was a deliberate act of ignoring her and walking on then her rage would of been understandable. However I shouted Come and told her she will come if I walk on.which she did almost immediately.Most people walk through the middle of the line of trees .It was a fleeting blind spot and just bad luck I didn’t spot her.
     
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    I can see both sides - with an over-exuberant puppy, I found myself being shouted at once when Luna didn’t come back when I called in a similar situation; the other dog surprised us. Actually, that one wasn’t on lead but was a shiba inu that was doing the typical screaming thing, obviously scared of Luna, who was play bowing like a crazy thing while he screamed his lungs out. That was my bad she didn’t have a perfect recall but these things happen.
    On the other side, when my dogs are on lead, having another dog come up to us can be awful. Shadow is lead reactive and any dog coming up to us (even dogs he knows and likes) will get both barrels if he’s in that mood. If I felt someone wasn’t doing their utmost to get their dog away when I was clearly trying to keep mine apart from other dogs, I’d be peeved.

    These things do happen to us, though. I find the most helpful thing is to try to think about all the reasons that person might have reacted the way they did, even where it seems completely OTT. Trigger stacking can happen to humans as well as dogs. Maybe her alarm didn’t go off, so she was late for work and got a telling off for that. She hadn’t managed to get breakfast so her blood sugar was low, giving her a thumping headache. One of the kids pushed another child in the playground, so she had to go into school to deal with that. She just wanted a nice cup of tea, but someone had used the last of the milk and hadn’t replaced it. She grabbed the lead to take the dog out to clear her head, but then this bloomin’ Labrador came rushing up and trying to jump all over Fluffy, who has to be careful of her joints because she’s just got the first signs of arthritis.
    OK, so that’s clearly all made up, but you get my point. Any one of those things might be easy to deal with, but added together, it means that a person might react more strongly than they otherwise would to a relatively minor situation. Cut her a break, put it down to a bad day but think about what you can change to make things better if it happened again. Worry about the things that are within your control, rather than fixating on those things that are not.
     
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    Well done Coco and Sue :tail:
     
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    I too can see this from both sides, probably because I’ve been irritated by other dogs not being called back but I’ve also been the person with the irritating dog.

    I always run after him and apologise if I feel as though he’s annoying someone though, especially if their dog is on a lead. Luckily, these instances are few and far between now.

    I generally am pretty chill about other dogs coming up, even if their owner isn’t doing much. Stanley isn’t reactive so there’s usually never any harm done (except sometimes when I get jumped up at in my work clothes :rolleyes:) and I just go about my day. Sometimes if the dog is really persistent I hold their harness and make a point of saying I’ve got them if you want to come & get them. Which is my passive aggressive way of saying get your effing dog.

    I do get slightly irritated by people with aggressive/nervous dogs who walk them in places where there are a large amount of dogs off the lead. I know they have a right to be there the same as everyone else but I don’t see why you would put your dog in that position to stress them out then kick off about it. A lead walk is a lead walk, so the dog might as well wander the streets for the freedom it’s getting where dogs are generally on the lead. Most days I see a woman with 2 dogs (big fluffy things I’m not sure what) in the nature reserve where I walk Stanley and 90% of dogs are off lead and enjoy a play, and they’re at the end of the lead snarling at any dog you can see. She’s about to be pulled off her feet and looks really stressed and I just think why bother? But that’s just my little rant for the day :oops::D
     
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    I am sorry but I don’t care what sort of day she was having we all have our crosses to bear. If someone apologises and gets their dog back as quickly as possible then there is no excuse for carrying on ranting.I am sorry but she Obviously wanted a confrontation.After telling her to get a life I walked on heaping praise on Nellie and telling her what a good girl she was.She had come back when called and also I knew that would annoy the woman more so for me it was a double whammy
     

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