What is wrong with people?!!

[Emmasmom]

It's not just the dog park you have to watch out for. I was in the vet's with Emma and she had not yet had her full slate of shots. A woman came in and insisted that Emma had to make friends with her dog. She let it drag its leash all over the place and made no effort to control it. Emma was not too happy about it and she could tell I was not happy with her or her dog, but she still let it go wherever it wanted to. Sign : Dogs must be on a leash at all times!! Ok, so it was on a leash, but dragging a leash behind it I don't think was the concept in the request.

 

[Smudge]

Sign : Dogs must be on a leash at all times!! Ok, so it was on a leash, but dragging a leash behind it I don't think was the concept in the request.

This is a HUGE problem at all the parks I go to. We don't have a "dog park" but all of the parks clearly state that all dogs must be on leash.

In my opinion, and it is only my opinion, letting your dog drag the leash is much more dangerous than not having it on a leash at all. What if your dog got spooked? It could run into the woods and get caught on something, possibly choke to death.

On the other freckle, if an aggressive dog is allowed to roam this way it could cause just as many problems. What if a dog was a car chaser? Your dog just ran off after a vehicle with it's LEASH attached at it's neck!

 

[jerros]

It's a sad fact of life that most people don't bother doing any research before going out and getting themselves a pet. Many of the people have owned pets in their life (perhaps not adult life) and simply think that because they had a dog as a child they know how to raise one on their own and a book, or other informational research wouldn't provide them any extra knowledge.

In short they think they know it all....until there is a problem. I think sometimes these people forget that a pet is an actual life they have to take care of, and it's simply not good enough to go find out that you shouldn't have taken your dog to the dog park before it's been vaccinated after it's fighting for it's life at the vets office.

While owning and caring for a pet is a learning process, theres simply no excuse for not taking a few hours to find out the do's and do not's of caring for your new pet in the first few days/months of life before bring him/her home with you.

Sorry if I ranted a bit but I do tend to get a bit riled up over people blissfully living their lives in ignorance because they are too lazy to do a web search.

 

[Smudge]

It's a sad fact of life that most people don't bother doing any research before going out and getting themselves a pet. Many of the people have owned pets in their life (perhaps not adult life) and simply think that because they had a dog as a child they know how to raise one on their own and a book, or other informational research wouldn't provide them any extra knowledge.

A lot of things are done out of ignorance, and I can point fingers at myself on that one. I myself was once under the impression that owning a dog was easy because "everybody has a dog - how hard can it be?" Pretty dang hard, sometimes!

And as for the leash rule in the vet's office, my vet's office provides FREE LEASHES for the duration of your visit! So all you have to do is walk up to the desk, tell them you are there, and walk back outside with the leash to get your dog! It's not difficult!

Sometimes I want to strangle people with those leashes.

You don't have any idea what the other dog is in there for! I don't have a problem talking to people to pass the time, but let's not make the vet's waiting room a dog social! Maybe this is done out of ignorance, too. Maybe people don't understand the potential health risks they could be putting their dogs through by trying to shove it in another dog's face to say hello while in the waiting room.