My friend was out walking her dogs two days ago and a huge and heavy GR came round the corner and barrelled into her. She spent a day at A&E and has a serious fracture where the tibula joins the fibula, or something like that. She has to have an op to have plates and pins inserted. The dog owner was a doctor and told her nothing was broken because of a, b & c before he trundled off! My poor but amazing friend said, "oh it was a complete accident" and she has no hard feelings!
It's interesting how your perspective changed and how you can now see both sides. In Brogan's last year, I was told several times that I should just leave him at home as he was too old to go out. Most memorably an afternoon in Spain when I got totally chewed out by a guy on the street. And this was after Brogan had easily jogged 5km with me the morning before. Heh, heh, Brogan sure did know how to put on the old dog routine for sympathy. I digress. My point (yes, I think I had one) was that it is a two way street. Yes, people need to be aware that their young dog can be irritating or even harmful to other dogs and humans if allowed to jump on everyone. But people with older dogs or dogs with infirmities also need to protect their dogs. It was my job as Brogan got older to keep a very close eye on him and be ready to body block other dogs (or humans) who may have been too rough for him. Sometimes people got huffy, but when I explained why, I don't remember any bad reactions...quite the opposite in fact.
What the he'll he a doctor in languages or music? I've had many interactions some good and some bad.I try to be nice but there are some real horrible people out there but the nice ones do out number them
