Ha ha, brilliant, I can just imagine Axel trying that...not! He does rub his face in people's crotches with it one...so can only embarrass them

I did wonder fleetingly if it would help deter people letting their dogs charge up to Cherry when I am walking her on-lead if she was muzzled but with her eye problems it might not be a good idea for her.

I used to muzzle her when doing agility off-lead and a little girl at class was scared of her but I pointed out that she was actually the safest dog there!

That really did make me laugh (experienced it myself).

And me.... I had a huge argument once with someone about my dog, which ended:
"And IF it's as well trained as you say, why is it wearing a muzzle then?"

Only it wasn't a muzzle, it was a Halti.....

Actually, I got the opposite reaction from people when Daisy was muzzled. They would insist on trying to `make friends` with her. Dogs Like Me! they`d protest as she desperately attempted to disembowel them through the muzzle.
The only time someone objected to her because she had a muzzle on was in a training class and the woman running it drily pointed out that she was actually the safest dog there since she couldn`t bite.

I do tend to avoid muzzled dogs, just because I assume that's what the owner wants. If my dog needed to be muzzled due to aggression I wouldn't want people approaching him/her.

I wouldn't bat an eyelid at a muzzled greyhound however.

I do to, especially if the dog is behaving like it wants to be left alone too.
Glad people see the difference with muzzled Greyhounds, Axel has yet to need his, but it's there anyways.

Better to be safe than sorry!

Our GSD had a muzzle, sofest dog on earth but used to try and eat rubbish on walks; so he had a muzzle with a cover in the bottom- quite like many greyhound muzzles I have seen.

Oh no, I want people, and their dogs, to approach him, people he is fine with to an extent, he just needs to learn manners with dogs..as many will see next Saturday at the Dogsey walk...which is actually why he is wearing one - so he gets used to it. I also like the fact he cannot bark whilst wearing it - he can't get his mouth open enough...peace and quiet

Although, if he does well on the Dogsey walk, he will be going to be getting a greyhound muzzle so he can do other things. And we'll more than likely be going to Mablethorpe again this year, so I will insist he wears one there. I am going to succeed in getting him good with other dogs!

You can't stop people jumping to conclusions, I NEVER assume the reason a dog is wearing a muzzle is because it might bite a human or a dog, dogs wear muzzles because they scavenge, because they lick, because they chew the lead, etc etc.