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Location: Lancashire
Joined: May 2005
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Why do some people have dogs??????
I'll Set the scene - where we walk china is a series of paths/fields intersected by main roads. Each section has fencing and swing gates....
We were out on our walk with china yesterday, along comes thomas (the grey whippet cross she ADORES!!!) so we stop to let them play etc and all of a sudden this Alsation cross comes bolting across the road to see us. Car slammed on doggy almost killed!!!
a few seconds later two girls about 5 yrs old come running across!!!! Its our dog they shout! WHY ON EARTH ARE 2 5yr OLDS WALKING A BIG DOG!!!!
any way they grab his collar which is way too loose and comes of him...luckiliy he ran throught the gate onto the path. i grabbed him and got his collar on...the girls then say....its ok we will take him.
So i told them they werent going anywhere with that dog and to get their parents!
other dog walkers are going past and this dog, as great as it was with me, was desparate to get to all the other dogs!
This young boy then comes up with a lead and says hes ours we'll take him, so again i said , your dog was almost roadkill!!
Get your mum....
I was seething at this point!!! how could they let a dog run out into a road and have little girls walking it!!!
So up comes a woman who was sat in her car up the road....she looked familiar and came up and said "whres your staffie?" i pointed her out with OH
She then says its her friends dog and he escaped from the garden.
Then comes lecture from me about recall training and proper fitting collars, kids walking dogs........and how the dog was about a meter away from being killed. Apparently she keeps telling her about training etc (i started thinking yeah right a "freinds dog!!!")
Apparently one time he got upto LANCASTER!!! (from preston its about 30mins up the motorway!) Her friend says "well at least hes getting exercise!!!
It was only later i realised that it really wasnt her dog as ive seen her walking a gorgeous black staffy! (oooops!)
Anyway, people who obvoisly have no care as to not letting their dogs loose and not even having a proper fitting collar shouldnt be allowed them in my opinion!!!!!
ARGH....ok rant over now - sorry!!!