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08-15-2005, 01:15 PM | #1 |
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| Do you ask before letting your small child pet a strange dog? I am amazed that the amount of people with small children that just let them walk up to a large dog to pet it without asking if it is OK. My dad and boyfriend are out golfing right now and I have my dads rottie Xander here with me, so I thought since we have an eventful evening planned I would get my run in now. I take Recon and Xander and put them on the coupler (thing that makes 1 leash into 2) and go for my run. SInce I am used to running in the early AM and late PM the heat was affecting me so I stoped at the gas station for some water for myself and the dogs. As I hook them up and go in, there is a lady with 2 little kids. I would say they were maybe 2 and 4 years old, and she starts walking up to my dogs. Well, I hook the dogs up on the side of the gas station where not everyone can walk past them because Recon is not good with little kids. I paid for my water and walk out and head back to the dogs, just as this lady is getting close with her kids. The one kid lets out a screach and Recon just about jumps out of his skin, hes trembling. The kid starts running towards the dogs as Recon is now showing his teeth. And do you think that woman does anything?? SO I right away step between the dogs and the kid and the kid KICKS ME IN THE SHIN!!!!!!! YELLS "ME PET DOGGY NOW!!!!!" I look at her and I am now more concerned with my dogs then her kid, then say, Do you not have any f-ing commmon sense?? and she looks at me as if i am from another planet. Then says, all she wants to do is pet the doggie. DUH, THE DOG IS ABOUT READY TO RIP YOUR KID IN TWO LADY!!!!!!! So I (haha) nicely tell her to take a walk. And she then calls me a B**** as she is walking away and says all she wanted to do was pet the dog. GGGGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! |
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08-15-2005, 01:19 PM | #2 |
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| kicks you in the shin!!!!>....... omg, i would have gotten her info so that you could send the potential "doctor bill" to HER house for youre poor battered limbs (lol) what a jerk...... i know it woulda got recon in trouble, but it woulda served her right to get a little nip |
08-15-2005, 01:21 PM | #3 |
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| I would've let Recon take a bite..Don't get me wrong, i love kids but if the parents aren't responsible and they are stupid, NOT YOUR FAULT. What a b***h...COMMON SENSE. Not only did she not care that her kids came to pet A DOG but two BIG dogs...as a mother I would be concerned. Not offense to Xander and Recon because they rock but they could scare me if I didn't know them.
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08-15-2005, 01:22 PM | #4 |
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| I was scared that Recon was gonna take half the kids face off since they were the same height. Xander just sat there the whole time with that big dumb look on his face. As Recon is growling Xander just kept cocking his head from one side to the other. But come on, who lets there kids run right up to strange dogs like that. Especially since one was a rottie??? Good thing the rottie is the nice one. The kid was barefoot so it didn't hurt. |
08-15-2005, 01:25 PM | #5 |
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| Kelly: That was a crappy thing that happened to you I am constantly amazed when parents let their kids pet dogs without talking to the owner. Not only is it rude, it's dangerous for their kids. When kids come up and pet Chewy over his head (which I hate) I have to practically yell at them to stop and then when he starts nipping at them parents get mad. Well what do you expect? My only answer for it is irresponsible parenting. |
08-15-2005, 01:26 PM | #6 |
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| Stupid people...the kids probably just reflected the parents.. The worse is, if a dog attacks he is vicious...and what about the kid????
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08-15-2005, 01:28 PM | #7 |
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| Just so you know not all parents are nuts. I had logan at the public pool talking to a friend. I was holding him and these two small children were with their mom and obviously wanted to pet him so she told them to come ask nicely if they could pet him and of course i said yes and logan loved it and was giving kisses. When then the little boy kinda grabbed him around the neck to give a hug. The mom told him no that he shouldn't grab the puppy. So he stopped petted him one more time and then they took off. I thought she did a very good job. There was another little girl in the pool, i don't know where her mom was and she got out to pet him when the others came over which i didn't mind and then she asked to hold him and i tried to be nice and explain he's kinda wiggly and she proceeded to try and talk me into it and she wouldn't give it up so i finally had to get a little short with her, obviously she wasn't used to hearing no very often.
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08-15-2005, 01:28 PM | #8 |
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| My 5 year old daughter has to ask me and the pet owner before petting a dog. It sounds like irresponsible parenting to me also. Children shouldn't be allowed to always have their own way.
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08-15-2005, 01:34 PM | #9 |
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| When my kids were little I always had them ask if they could pet the dog but it wasn't that often that the kids were really interested in petting some one elses dog. They had thier own at home. But some one had a good point here. I know that Recon doesn't like little kids. that is why I hook him up around the side of the gas station so that little kids aren't near him. When we walk and there are little kids, I cross to the other side. So because this mother is stupid, my dog could potentially be vicious?? To me that is a load of crap. But it is the truth. Sad huh?? Recon is everything you could ask for in a dog and more. But he has that one little issue about kids. They scare him. I cant help that. But what am I to do? Keep him in his yard and that is it? Im not willing to do that. So I guess I just get labeled as a B**** and move on. Isn't the first time wont be the last. |
08-15-2005, 01:42 PM | #10 |
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| you should get him a caution may bite, pet at your own risk t-shirt. Then if someone pets him you're not liable. Probably still would be I'd imagine, but a lot of places post at your risk signs to free the owners of liability.
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08-15-2005, 01:44 PM | #11 |
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| Here where i live, if you have anything posted about your dog potentially biting, it makes things worse for you because they claim that you know that the dog is dangerous. Good idea though if i lived anywhere else. |
08-15-2005, 01:48 PM | #12 | |
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08-15-2005, 01:50 PM | #13 |
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08-15-2005, 01:54 PM | #14 |
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| Sometimes dogs have problems, but some of us choose to love them in spite of this. I had a dog that was abused by big men and dropped on the side of the road. She is my dog and was nothing ever, but nice to me, but if a big man approached and tried to touch her in anyway she would growl and bite because obviously a big man had hurt her very badly and she was scared. I'm not going to put her down or punish her for something some one else did to her. It's not her fault.
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08-15-2005, 02:41 PM | #15 |
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| I bet you anything that if recon had bitten her kid then she would be telling everyone taht it was your fault for leaving the dogs there whithout supervision! When it is really her fault for letting her kid go near strage big dogs!!!!!!
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