Postby 1sttimemummy » Tue Aug 09, 2016 12:46 pm
These are two of the most ridiculous statements I've heard in a while,"What you do have to remember though is it's never the dog, it's always the owner that makes an annoying dog" and "there's always an idiot wandering around with a dog".
Whilst I agree it is normally the owner that makes a bad dog (especially in circumstances when a dog is vicious), I think you're two statements are just plain rude, so everyone that has a dog is annoying and an idiot?
I have two dogs, both of which I've had since they were 8 weeks old. My eldest dog is perfectly well behaved, she listens every single time we ask her to do something, my other dog doesn't listen to a thing, especially if there's food involved and she has been known to steal a sandwich or a sausage roll from people, if I haven't managed to put her on the lead in time. I trained her in exactly the same way I trained my other dog, but she has her own personality just like children do, and it's about learning to deal with a situation before it happens.
Let's put this into perspective, a dog smells a pizza and goes to check it out, it's food it smells yummy end of! The owner should have ran and got the dogs back and offered to pay for the pizza but let's not make this out to be more than it is...a simple pizza stealing event by a greedy/hungry dog.
Secondly, no there aren't rules that dogs have to be on leads on the common, please remember that dogs need exercise too. Most dogs in London spend hours and hours indoors and only have an hour or two a day to play and run around, lets not deny an animal of some freedom and the ability to enjoy themselves. There's plenty of places to go where dogs aren't allowed or have to be kept on a lead, so if you're a dog hater go to the dog free zones or eat in a restaurant at a table!