Nope. Don't have a double standard. But I notice you have no issues with judging others yet get all angry if someone dare judge you.

So what I've been doing is explaining that with plenty of training and a bit of smarts, your dog can be safe even by a road. Heck, there's a lady in my area who walks her dog 100% off leash, on sidewalks near the road even during rush hour. The dog stops with her, moves with her, walks in heel position the whole time. Some might call that stupid, but I don't think she is.

On the flip side, I've seen idiots let their dogs run out into the road on their flexis. I've had one person who wanted to let her dog meet mine (even though I told her that my dog didn't much like young rambunctious dogs) and who released the button to let the dog rush forward (resulting in my dog getting upset, trying to get away, and getting a bunch of burrs in her tail when she backed into a bush of them ). I've seen a guy who consistently walks his three dog aggressive chihuahuas off leash and says "They're just little dogs!" when they come rushing at my much bigger (leashed) dog. I've also seen people abusing head collars (giving the dog a pop on them), hang their dogs by flat collars when they "misbehave" and do all sorts of other things. Are head collars bad? Are flat collars? Are people who use them doing it out of "sheer folly"? No. Of course not.

So why assume that everyone who uses a flexi near the road is?

You may put me on ignore if you want to. I don't really care. But I'm not going to ignore posts that I want to reply to.