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Originally Posted by Jkpal  Isn't if strange how much 'strangers' know about our dogs and what we should be doing with them?! One guy I run into calls Piper a "rat." Really, is that supposed to funny or something? He also tells me to leave Piper alone in backyard, give her some freedom--like I'm damaging her little psyche or something. Obviously because of these idiotic comments, he's an ill-informed, delusional, self-appointed expert-on-nothing. He is completely boorish and waste of my time. My response to any comment he made was, "Well, Piper isn't like any other dog!" However, the simplest, most affect solution for me is to keep walking, smile, wave and tell him it's Piper's walk and she's in a hurry...Andthat, finally, has freed us from his irritating, boring, time-wasting sermons!
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When I had my first Yorkie, one of my aunts who had larger dogs her whole life but did not have a dog at the moment used to insist I let my little Yorkie out into my (fenced in but large) backyard unsupervised. I told her I would not do that because I'm afraid of him being carried off by a hawk, an animal getting in/over the fence, etc. She used to make fun of us for being paranoid.
Then my aunt got a big Labrador. When it was about a year old she brought it over our house. She doesn't have a yard so we told her she could let her dog run around our yard of she'd like. Her response? "No, what if an animal gets under/over the fence, etc"