When you realise you spend too much time here....

sillysmiles

I had a moment the other day when I realised I spend way to much time on this forum. Was at Lidl in Kildare town and tied up outside by the trollies was golden cocker type dog - on what looked like a pinch collar.
When we went to take a trolley, the dog went mental and barked and tried to lunge - I'm thinking potentially a fear aggression. We took our trolley and proceeded on, but while in the shop we could hear the dog going mad again.

I know some people will say that I should have stayed and talked to the owner, but to be honest, imo if you are the type of muppet who needs to use a pinch collar on a cocker - they are not going to listen.
Sometimes stupid people ruin good dogs.

deadlybuzzman

Funnily enough, only on Monday Tom Dunne was talking to an animal behaviourist and he mentioned aggression in golden type cockers.
Still though that doesn't seem right

Bells21

Sometimes this forum is the only place that can keep you sane. You know on the whole you're speaking with like minded people, whereas in the 'real world' there is still a huge lack of education/awareness when it comes to people and their pets.
For example one of our dogs absolutely loves his own space and doesn't like people/dogs encroaching on it. He gives plenty of signals in advance but often these go ignored by others or they think their highly bad mannered dog is just extra friendly and mine is an aggressive so and so. I had started to believe this and it was only through reading other people's similar experiences that I realised actually my dog or I are not the ones in the wrong and that I'm perfectly within my rights to point out that my dog is usually better at communicating than their dog.

volchitsa

As a first time dog owner, I probably would have been one of those "Ah sure she's only being friendly", Bells, if it hadn't been for this forum!:o

Bells21

volchitsa wrote:

As a first time dog owner, I probably would have been one of those "Ah sure she's only being friendly", Bells, if it hadn't been for this forum!

Oh sure I know, as I said I believed that my dog was 100% in the wrong but he's got his own personality and own preference as to how he interacts with his environment and the people/dogs that are in it and is able to express this in a proper manner but sometimes this isn't acknowledged by others.

Latatian

Tell me about it. I've a deaf dog with four gammy legs. So many people with 'friendly' dogs who think I should scold her for snapping if their dog jumps on her and hurts her. Eh, no.

Bells21

Latatian wrote:

Tell me about it. I've a deaf dog with four gammy legs. So many people with 'friendly' dogs who think I should scold her for snapping if their dog jumps on her and hurts her. Eh, no.

I think I'd snap too if someone I didn't know jumped on me! Especially if they took me by surprise. I've often wondered if you replaced dogs with humans in situations like these would these people then realise how completely inappropriate their own dog is being.