A grumble if I may!

So yesterday late afternoon/early evening took sweep for his stroll. And this dog about 2/3 times the size of him bolts over, SLAMS into him, continues to try and push him over/body check him/punches him is off a lead with no recall, when we are not 100m from a busy road.

Sweep is 14, and fairly blind and got really upset, and a bit sore after it. He's not a big dog, but if this dog had gone to anything much smaller i reckon he could have really hurt them

Why is it so hard to keep your dog on a lead?!

How awful, I hope he is ok. Did you have words at the owner?

I was a bit too lost for words at the time to say anything, owner did scuttle off pretty fast. It's not the first time it's happened, but at least the last dog the owner was really apologetic. This one just grabbed his dog and disappeared.

This happens soooo many times doesnt it?! Really infuriating, particularly when the owner says sod all and takes off. My old boy is not happy when dogs charge at him now and will growl successfully if one of these types of dogs invade his space. Its amazing how many other dog owners will think that he is the trouble maker!!!!

Your poor old doggy.

There are way too many lazy, incompetent dog owners out there who don't socialise and train their dogs as it's too much hassle then spend their lives apologising, running away or effing and blinding at you if you confront them.

You can just imagine their kids, can't you. They should run some kind of social engineering scheme by neutering the owners of out of control dogs to stop them adding to the gene pool of general ignorance.

This is where my tracking pole comes into play. It is not acceptable, I only have to do it once to most dog owners and then they put their dogs on the lead when they see me coming.

My Weim is 12 now, I will not have her mugged and I also have to make sure that my GSD does not take matters into his own hands, so in order to protect BOTH dogs (one from assault and battery and the other from developing behavioural issues) I step in first.

Would the dog owner allow their child to do this to another I wonder? Hmmmmm

Dreadful. I never allowed Ollie and I do not allow Dillon to run into other dogs like that I let them socialise of course I do but in a controlled manner I would be none to happy if someone allowed their dog to slam into mine. Being a large breed pup being slammed into is not good for him either.

Oh this used to happen to Shadow and it used to make me so angry! They'd just come charging over and knock him down and trample him and then when he objected the other owners accused him of being vicious! He wasn't bloody vicious, he was just an infirm dog who objected to being shoved around.

And then when I said anything to the rude dogs owners I'd usually get comments like "well if he can't cope with it you shouldn't bring him out"

its so horrible that people cant just enjoy a walk. I mite buy a field for dog walkers and not let the knob heads in then we could have a bit or paradise to walk in

I am sick and tired of idiots letting their ill mannered dogs loose, knowing they have no recall and will come barrelling at my Tibetan Mastiff to attack him. And I mean any size from shih-tzu to GSD. He's big enough to look after himself, but should he retaliate and bite back, there would only be one winner. Especially with a small dog.

Thankfully, both he and I have more self control than the idiot owner and their untrained dog. It makes me very angry! I would never allow the TM loose to lollop up to other people and dogs that don't know him and I know he's friendly and not aggressive, though god only knows how due to the aforementioned knobblers.