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This is for any irresponsible dog owner who brings an un-trained, aggressive dog to an off-leash park. If my dog is ever attacked again I will shove a bag of dog shit down your throat. For real.
—ruff
This article appears in Dec 3-9, 2009.
6 Comments
Hmmm… dog owners who don’t train and raise their dogs right, and parents who don’t raise their kids right should maybe have their *own* offleash parks…
Forget the bag OP and just shove the shit down their throat!
i looooove tough guy/girl talk on the net. fuck off you douche. its one thing to say the untrained dog’s owner sucks, its another to make some puff chested remark about what you will or wont do to someone. odds are you would have yapped to the wrong person…i love when people do that. and would have had the dogshit AND a fist returned. so enough with the threats DB. its old, and pathetic.
I agree, the owners with the worst behaved dogs are always the least involved. They stand there nonchalantly while poor dogs are being chased and attacked. Don’t be afraid to put them (dogs and owners) in their place, shit or no.
Cuja, maybe it was you and your asshole dog this post was referring too??? I can’t imagine any other reason to be so freakin defensive about this…
I disagree.
Although they have been domesticated, dogs are still animals, without concept of “right and wrong”, or future consequences…and no matter their “training” by man, they can, and will, occasionally resort back to instinctual and violent behaviour. Your dog is no exception, although granted some are worse than others.
I support a full ban, within city limits, of ALL dogs over 5 kg, and having more than 3 legs.
My dog was attacked in an off leash park recently. We frequent this park often and had never seen this other dog before. Luckily he wasn’t injured, but he did bolt off as far as he could because he was so frightened. He could have run into the street! His flight response overcame all of his training with me.
Next time we went to the park, it took me at least half an hour to coax him inside. There were some of the regulars there so he started feeling more comfortable.
I definitely understand where you are coming from. Seeing my dog attacked and running away was one of the scariest moments I have ever had and I started to panic. We’ve changed our routine a bit so that if there is an unfamiliar dog that he hasn’t met yet, I keep him on his leash until they have sniffed around. My dog is naturally timid and non-aggressive, so it’s the other dogs I am concerned about.
If your dog is hesitant next time you bring him/her to the park, try to go when you know other dogs that they’ve met before and played with will be there. It definitely helps them realize that the park is a fun place, not something to be scared of.