Errrr . . . . Could You Maybe????

Make your kids sit down in the car instead of hanging out of the windows, screaming and yelling and barking as you drive by when I'm walking my dogs? Maybe?


Stop and think before you install that invisible fence all the way up to within three feet of the sidewalk and then leave your dogs out - unsupervised? Maybe? Instead of rushing out while they run up and down the sidewalk, barking and snarling at my dogs ON THE LEASH ON THE SIDEWALK and then glare at me and my dogs and make snarky remarks because my dogs are standing between me and your snarling, barking dogs, barking and snarling back?

Uh . . . . when we walk past, maybe not point out the dogs to your kids and tell them, GO SEE THE DOGGIES!!!!!? Then act like my dogs are monsters when they DON'T want your screaming brats to swarm them? Or like I'm some kind of creep when I tell your yammering kids that no, they cannot pet (maul) the dogs.

It's no wonder Kharma rolls her eyes and looks for a way out when there are loud kids around.

I see some kids do things that just make me cringe, and when in a store and I can hear a child Screaming at the top of his/her lungs from several aisles away it irritates the crap out of me.... I Never tolerated that kind of behaviour.... I also groan when I get to a restaurant for a rare night out and the table next to me has a family who constantly beg their disobedient kids to sit down while they run around interrupting everyone else’s meal... Honestly, my kids would never have dared to behave that way... they each tried a few tricks a few times but quickly figured out that that behaviour was NOT ok....

One of the best compliments I get about both my children (now teens) is how polite and respectful they are, I am very proud of that!

ETA: Hit post before I was done...

Living in the country where neighbors are far far apart...I have never dealt with your exact issues, however when I was trialing alot with my JRTs or at Agility events the worst was when kids would walk up and stick fingers into the x-pen they were not supposed to even be around:yikes: Thank goodness my dogs (And Ado's because they were often in the same pen) were more interested in licking their fingers... but somedogs would taste them instead... Their parents would be RIGHT there saying to pet the little doggies and would likely demand they be put down or sue if they did get bit!!!!

But your dogs are so cute and inviting !!!!!

Loud spoilt kids?cant stand em!!!!!!!,and im a Father.
Difference is my kids a doglover with the KNOWLEDGE of how to be around dogs.

I really feel with all the BSL BS and other such hype,schools in all countrys should teach kids how to act appropriatly around our canine buddys.

Perhaps that way attacks that are NOT the dogs fault wont happen so often.

I am envious of you and Kharma. At least your dog has some SENSE and wants to get away. Mine.. well, screaming and little grabbing hands make him go nuts and he wants to drag me over to play and cuddle them. Not. Happening. I dislike ill-mannered children, and wont go near them unless I have to, and Middie wanting a cuddle doesn't count as having to. Gr.

I hear you. You should see the HORROR on parents faces when after they have told thier brats to pat the sweet little doggie, I tell them that she does and will bite children if they approach her incorrectly.

At a dog show once a young child, probably about 4 years old, walked up to Zubin and bear hugged him. I was shocked and so was Zubin. Here comes the mom with something like " aww- did you hug the dog?".. I glared at the woman ( grabbing my tongue in mid air) and said " well good thing he likes kids- other dogs might not".. Thinking that would be sufficent, watched as the mother let the child walk towards another dog. The handler pulled the dog up and said " LADY- that is a good way for your child to get bitten.." Then and only then the mother takes hold of the child..

We were walking Ella around the neighborhood last week, I saw a truck pulled up at a house that had plastered on it some invisible fence company name.
I thought, "WELL! We know where we're NOT going to be walking Ella anymore."


People can be SOOO freakin' dog stupid. It drives me NUTS.
It's like, in an urban area, don't bother TRAINING your dogs to be off leash.
It endangers everyone else AND THEIR PETS in the process.
Kthnxbaistupid.

I think that it's great everyone does train their dogs off leash here, and several I see are rarely on them until you get into the center where it's more busy (and even then some are still off). The dog park is also unfenced. The dogs here are just so socialized and behaved it makes me want to take them all home :lol-sign: I can honestly say I have only met one person who annoys me when it comes to dogs and that's because she uses harsh training methods.. and the children I have come across are very respectful. In fact, I can't remember, since moving here, a single kid coming up to pet my dog uninvited. They mostly just hang around speaking Dutch, in which case I have no clue what they are saying so I ignore them and they go away.

Back in the states... o.m.g what a difference. No I would not allow my dog unleashed, and I wouldn't take them to the dog park that was near me when I lived there. I would be terrified of making a trip to Petco because I could hear the kids miles away "Doggggieeee." And we have been victim to the invisible-fence-running-dog by the sidewalk.

am I saying it's all sunshine and rainbows? No, but fortunately the leprechauns stay hidden.

ummm I live in the ghetto... where dogs run free... none are trained... omg its horrible sometimes. I could go on and on and on about the stupid kids, parents and other dogs I've run into. There's one kid who plays outside by my condo a lot. Everytime he sees Bamm he starts screaming bloody murder at my dog saying, "WOLF WOLF WOLF!!!!!!" and then he'll bark rather obnoxiously. That freaks Bamm out so much so I usually try and quickly walk Bamm the opposite way. This kid's dad will stand outside and laugh at his kid. Ya... he thinks it's cute. I just want to chuck the kid as far as I can throw him...arrrghhh!

Yah, they act like "what right do YOU have to have a dog who doesn't want my kids to maul her at their whim?" And it's almost always people who don't want to be bothered with actually OWNING a dog (and they shouldn't!)

OMG I hear ya!!! I had the boys tied out front with me the other day while I was working on my trailer. My neighbour's daughter (around 11 I think) a few houses down had a couple friends over. when they came outside and saw the boys all 3 of them came running over and the one girl throws her arms around OC and says "I just love doggies!" This kid has never even met either of my two before! The father came afterwards smiling and saying how cute the scene is. I was dumbfounded! I said to the girl "y'know you should always ask before you even pet a strange dog, let alone hug it" to which she responds with "ya I know but its ok, dogs love me!" and then goes on tot ell me about all the dogs in her enighbourhood *sigh*

Ronan is a dog who will happily do initial greeting with tail wags and licks and then after a couple pats is content to just lay off to the side where he can watch everything. One of the girls tried to coax him over by patting her leg but he just looked the other way not at all interested in recieving more attention. So what does the girl do? She YANKS HIS LEAD!!!!!! I sent the girls home immediately after that and told the dad that unless they learn to respect dogs they werent wecome to pet them anymore. Like it will actually stick....stupid people....

Oh, I've had the odd one or two give me that "all dogs love me" crap and start toward Kharma a time or two . . . . and then stop when she gives them the Fila-eye, lol.

One of the best reasons EVER for socializing a Fila young and a LOT . . . she's got a firm grasp of the difference between a nuisance and a threat.

Oh Renee, I get that all the time too. "All dogs love me, he'll be fine with me" Then they get right up on Bamm and try and reach their hand down to him... he gets nervous if people he doesn't know do that and he'll growl... "yup... he sure does love you huh?" oy vey... There's this one guy that wanders the neighborhood all the time. He brags about how many dogs have attacked him and how many times he's been hit by a car (which I don't believe to be honest). Anyways.... anytime he sees me outside with Bamm he comes running up because he wants to say hello... even when I'm clearly doing a training session which absolutely irkes (urkes?) me. Luckily Bamm is friendly with this guy... but he frustrates me to no end.

WE don't have a fence, we dont' have a choice about it. WE had to border train and they are never ever outside unsupervised. SO what does the neighbor teen do with his obnoxious terrier on a leash, walks into my yard without being invitied. The same dog that barks at them non stop behind his privacy fence. Good thing my dogs are well socialized. As long as my dogs don't leave the edge of their property when someone is walking down the road and are not barking or being in anyway threatening i don't see a problem. THey don't even run over to look.

One day I was walking Max down our street, and we were passing this one house when out of nowhere this demonic chihuahua comes charging at us snarling and barking. It was just perfect timing. Max is slightly DA when he's onleash, and the chihuahua caught us both off guard. Normally when I'm walking him, I avoid houses where I know there are dogs typically outside. So as this thing is barking at us, and Max's pulling is threatening to rip out my arm, where are the owners? Nowhere. Their dog (which has one of those electric fences) is barking like mad, but the owners are nowhere to be found.

Its dangerous, and it drives me crazy! Little kids are a completely different story. What catches everyone's attention about Max is his fur. We will be walking down the street, and I will hear some little kid say to his mom or dad, "Lookit that fwuffy puppy!" Then they immediately run up to us and start petting him. Luckily he's fine with kids. One time however a mother and her son were walking their dog. The kid was probably about 4 or 5. So me and Max were walking and this kid comes up from behind us on his little bike, with his mom and their little dog behind them. Max sees the dog and starts pulling and barking, and the mom does nothing. Max is 60 lbs (he's large for a keeshond) and I can't imagine he looks friendly when he sees another dog. Her little kid is asking me questions, and I'm just like, "I'm sorry, my dog doesn't do very well around other dogs." She apparently didn't get the hint, because she didn't leave. I ended up having to cross the street

When I was walking my big dogs yesterday, there was a little doxie tied up in someone's FRONT yard that immediately starting yipping and running at my dogs. Unsupervised, of course. I finally got my pooches back under control and away we went. I was pretty annoyed I can't even walk down a public sidewalk because there's a yappy dog tied up - and they had a fenced in backyard, god knows why it was out front.

When I was walking the smaller dogs, a girl rode up on her bike and asked if my dogs bit. My response was, Yes, the corgi doesn't like kids. And she kept her distance and rode alongside and chatted me up about my dogs and the weather, LOL. See, now, that was a good kid. She even told me I'd better hurry with my walk because another big storm was coming!

Suzzie, your post reminded me to add about this dog that lives on our street. Its some little white thing (it may be a Shih Tzu, I really don't care). All I know is that this dog is tethered in the front yard to a tree almost all day. It is the nastiest dog I've ever seen. If anyone walks by, it goes berserk. Add a dog to that and she goes even more insane. The owners are never around either. Honestly I do feel bad for it, because its the owners fault that they neglect her like that.

By now Max knows which house is hers, because I walk to the other side of the street and as we pass the general area where she would be he tenses up and perks his ears.

Once Daisy and I were at Petsmart because I was fitting her for a collar and some girl who was probably 8 or 9 (and old enough to know better!) runs up and hugs Daisy and starts telling me how she loves labs because they have a chocolate lab. Umm my dog is shy, pls don't hug her k? Daisy didn't do anything, she's good in public, she just kinda looked at the kid like "who are you and why are you in my face?". I don't take Daisy to Petsmart anymore, but I do take her out to FOHA with me sometimes to work on socialization and to play with other dogs.

Benji has not been blindsided by any kids thankfully. Once when I took him to the vet for a shot there was a little girl who asked her mom if she could pet Benji and her mom told her to ask me and I said sure, and she did, quite gently. There are good kids out there.

Something like this happened at a dog show I was at recently. A little kid - REALLY little, like less than 5 years old - wad toddling around outside the Dobe ring. Kid walks up behing a big male dobe and tackles him - big hug to the rear legs. The dobe didn't move, but the handler grabbed the kid by the scruff of the shirt, picked her up, and shoved her towards her parents... all while saying some VERY harsh words... justly deserved IMO.

If that had been Ronin... well, let's just say Ronin has a personal bubble and does not appreciate people of any age walking up to him and grabbing him without some modicum of politeness. He's always been fine with judges - but outside the ring, you need to introduce yourself to him before you touch him.