15-09-2018, 02:16 PM
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Re: A rant by Besoeker
Originally Posted by Besoeker
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Just for the record this is what he does when we stop to chat to someone. He doesn't even need to be told to wait. He just does. 
Why on earth would I need to constrain/restrain him on a lead in this public park?
15-09-2018, 02:26 PM
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Re: A rant by Besoeker
Originally Posted by tarantula
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YES most definitely.
15-09-2018, 02:43 PM
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Re: A rant by Besoeker
Originally Posted by pauline3
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I'm not saying ,Besoeker,that your dog would attack another,I always keep my dog on a lead,unfortunately he was attacked,some years ago,by a dog that was off a lead,in a very public field,what if that had been a child?..it has put me off taking him to public places,where dogs are off leads,I take him along the main road
I accept that you have to know your dog before you are at the stage of letting it off the lead. Ours is a rescue, picked up as a stray by the dog warden so we had no prior history other than his ten days at the rescue centre. A guy a few doors away also has a collie and it is never on the lead so we asked him.
"Leave the lead on but let go of it."
We did. He was fine. So we took it off and that was that. Just four weeks in. He is just a very good boy as you can probably gather from the pics in some of my posts. Post #39 for example.
We have little grandchildren stay over from time to time and he lies outside their bedroom door. He would get in bed with him but we don't allow that. Unsupervised.
But this little guy's mother was cool with it. Another grand child. It was love at first sight. He ran in the door and his first action was to rush over to Max, the dog, and throw his arms around him. Max stayed glued to him for the duration of their visit here.
Apologies to those who seen it before.
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