Unleashed dogs are a pain in the ass and a threat to themselves and others.

[RadiationTherapy]

Not everyone likes dogs; especially YOUR dog. Have some respect just like people who have kids need to keep them in line.

[Ptah]

1. . .

[skygazer]

2. 5... 4.... 3.... 2.....

[LeftyFingerPop]

3. In! n/t

[DarkTirade]

4. IBTK!

... damn, typed too fast trying to get in before the lock. :P

[Kali]

5. I agree and IBTL

would that be IAAIBTL?

[dropkickpa]

6. IBTL too!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. no shit/ibtl

[RadiationTherapy]

8. Not locked, biscuits!! nt

[redqueen]

57. Okay... what?

:wtf:

Nice thread, btw. :thumbsup:

[RadiationTherapy]

59. "biscuits" is what I say instead of "bitches".

Two syllables; starts with a "b"...perfect!

[DS1]

9. I've been away all weekend

but that other thread was a laughable disgrace.

"Wilderness is a natural area for dogs to run free", anyone saying that shouldn't have a dog in the first fucking place. Second, they couldn't even SEE what their brand new untrained dog was doing with these people. It probably took a big steaming dump next to their picnic basket, and yet it's the dude's fault for yelling at it.

Fuck that shit.

[RadiationTherapy]

10. Hey! Dog shit is natural, if you can't dig that, you ain't reeeaaalll, man

How could a woman even date a guy like you; a guy who unnaturally hates dog shit.

You probably wear deodorant too.

Are you sure you are on the right site?

[PeaceNikki]

13. I concur.

I did over there, too and was treated poorly for it.

My fragile ego is still recovering.


















:rofl:

[cabbage08]

11. IBTL

[RadiationTherapy]

12. bzzzzt. Wrong-O!

[mokawanis]

14. Ain't no doubt

My wife was bitten by an unleashed Doberman and being the kind soul that she is she wouldn't sue the owner like I wanted her to. And IBTL.

[Radical Activist]

15. Most dogs should be banned in any city of over 10,000 people.

They're a public nuisance. They're noisy, leave droppings, attack others and smell. They're an animal that isn't meant to be kept confined in an urban area or especially an apartment. Its cruel to the animal and a menace to the city.

[RadiationTherapy]

16. Wow. Speak it! Speak it!!

I have adapted to "dogworld", but would love to live in a dog free neighborhood.

I am not sure if dog free neighborhoods exist and I am sure it would be difficult to enforce.

[DS1]

17. 10 neighbors should be enough consensus to call an Artillery

strike on a barking dog's house.

[Radical Activist]

19. Sounds like a plan!

[Radical Activist]

22. And a note to single women with large dogs.

A dog is not a boyfriend! And stop calling it your baby or referring to yourself as its mom. Its an animal.

[RadiationTherapy]

26. Oh shit!! Oh shit!!!!

hammer + nail.

[Radical Activist]

27. How is this thread not locked yet?

[cabbage08]

33. I thought it would get locked earlier today

[cabbage08]

34. triple post

[cabbage08]

35. triple post

[moriah]

74. They ARE our furbabies, be nice....

My vet thought it was cute when I was calling to check on my cat when he was in the hospital. I'd said "I'm Ninja's owner" several times in calling before, and one day what came out was:

"Hi, this is Moriah, Ninja's mom? How is he?"

They liked it.

I think I certainly spent enough money on him to keep him alive that he should qualify as a quasi-kid.

----------

Big dogs may not be boyfriends, but sometimes they're better than a boyfriend. A dog will go investigate a noise at night. A dog will protect you and scare away would-be robbers. A dog will sit with you while you are pigging out on Ben and Jerry's and not judge you or the Lifetime movie on the TV when you've had a bad day. A dog doesn't care if you've put on 5 lbs or that your boobs sag a bit more than they did when you were 20.

Of course, they won't take out the garbage, they can't open a jar or change a lightbulb or get something off of a high shelf for you.... but hey.

[LeftyFingerPop]

18. "They're noisy, leave droppings, attack others and smell" You're talking about humans, right?

[RadiationTherapy]

25. That is a finite condition for humans of a certain age and mental state.

We are expected to put up with smelly, public shitting dogs regardless.

[Shell Beau]

21. Small dogs are fine in apartments.

[Radical Activist]

23. I'll agree with that.

Unless they yap loudly enough for everyone next door to hear at all hours.

[Shell Beau]

24. Well there goes the small dogs!

Mine sure is yappy!! I live in a house with a big yard though! :)

[Radical Activist]

31. At least you're not tormenting the dog

by keeping it in an apartment if its small. But I hope for your neighbors that you have thick walls. :)

[Shell Beau]

37. She is actually past the yappy stage. She is 10 and she is just

in bitch mode!! But screw my neighbors! One side has about 6 yorkies (yappy to the nth degree) and the other neighbor leaned over my fence one time and hit one of my bigger dogs with a shovel because it was "fighting" with my other big dog. He did this right in front of me. Asshole. It won't happen again I can promise you that.

[DS1]

30. Exactly what I was thinking when 155mm HE rounds came to mind

[JonLP24]

63. Having an animal in an apartment

With a loving owner is much better then leaving him or her in a shelter. 10,000? That is harsh. I live in a city of 500,000 and have 3 dogs and they don't bother no one. Just bark occasionally

[Radical Activist]

64. You don't know if they bother anyone.

One of my neighbors has an annoying dog that's outside barking once in a while and its annoying. I don't go over and complain to my neighbor. What good would it do? They aren't going to get rid of their dog and at least it isn't a constant thing. And its not better than living in a rural area where they would have the kind of space that animals are supposed to live in.

[JonLP24]

67. Even so

They only bark for a few minutes when something bothers them and there are other dogs in a 50 feet radius. I can't help it if it bothers someone, if they shouldn't be able to hear them if they are inside.

I'm with you if they do it non stop and they won't stfu but I'm sure most people can handle especially when police helicopters are much louder then my dogs as well as passing cars.

[montanto]

76. You've just described the neighbor who lives behind me.

Two dogs kept on a narrow outdoor stairway with a three foot wide concrete walkway about 15 feet long below. The dogs are about ten feet from my living room. They bark constantly, day and night. They shit on he walkway and the owner cleans it up once a week or so. In the summer I can't even barbecue in my own back yard or have friends over because the dogshit smell is stifling and the dogs stand right overhead barking their guts out at me. Been like this for five years and they still bark at me. As far as I know the owner never walks them at all, so no leash issue.

[Shell Beau]

20. Not my dog!

:P




:rofl:

[Fox Mulder]

28. So are unleased kids.

:hide:

[Dora]

32. Kids come with a lease???!!

Do you mean to tell me I got snookered into actually HAVING a kid, when all this time I could have RENTED one?

:banghead:

[Fox Mulder]

36. They should come with one.

Oh wait, some do:?v=0

Most other kids need one of those.

[Connonym]

62. I got one of the wrist to wrist tethers when we took my then 2 year old to Toronto

I had a lot of internal debate over it (and the guilt of it seeming like I was treating her like a dog) but in the end I decided that I didn't want her walking on busy city streets with me (in evil Canada no less) and be able to slip away and get lost or run into the street. Because we both wore it wrapped around our wrist I didn't feel like I was walking a dog or anything and actually it turned out we didn't really need it because she was a little overwhelmed by the busy city and wanted to hold my hand or her dad's hand the whole time. I think the harness ones are a bit too reminiscent of dog collars for me to feel comfortable with but I can't judge a parent who uses one.

[montanto]

77. The cool thing about leasing a kid is

if you get tired of one you can turn it back in after three to five years and get another.

[Dora]

79. What's the excess mileage penalty? I run my kid hard. nt

[montanto]

81. I don't know. I keep mine locked in the closet with

the dog. Saves a lot of trouble on both fronts.

[flvegan]

29. I think I missed the base of this joke.

Anyone care to point out the "other" thread?

[PeaceNikki]

38. Check your PM

[flvegan]

39. Got it.

Thanks!

Dunno how I missed that one.

[DS1]

40. What's your take?

On the original one, anyway?

[flvegan]

41. On the OP

My belief is twofold:

1. In public, unless in a confined area (like a dogpark), a dog should NEVER be offleash. I don't care how much schutzhund you've got in your critter, keep him/her leashed;

2. In addition to #1 above, even at a dogpark not let him/her offleash when the dog is so new to you. You have no idea how this dog is going to act/react in any situation, and getting him/her back under control when a voice command won't work will be difficult and possibly painful.

[Lorien]

69. I have a friend who is a real dog lover. She has two of her own

both very well behaved. One afternoon she was out for a jog without her dogs when a young man with an unleashed dalmatian came jogging towards her. She slowed down to a walk as the dog run up to her. She said a few complimentary things about the dog-then it jumped at her, grabbed her forearm and sank it's teeth into her. She screamed and the owner just kept walking away. Finally she yelled "Sir! Your dog has badly bitten me"! and he just said "uh, sorry", then called the dog and jogged away. She had to have about a dozen stitches AND a full course of rabies shots.

After that awful experience she ALWAYS kept her own dogs on a leash when other people were around!

[taterguy]

42. Some dogs need to run

Restraining them on leashes is unnatural and cruel

[Radical Activist]

43. Which is why its also cruel to keep them in any large city. n/t

[taterguy]

46. What about a smallish city?

That dog lives in a city with a population of 200,000

[Radical Activist]

48. that's not a small city

[taterguy]

53. I guess that dog does look really miserable

[LanternWaste]

54. Also cruel to keep...

"Which is why its also cruel to keep them in any large city."

Also cruel to keep people in any large city.

[montanto]

78. LOL. Some people like city life. The country scares me.

[Arugula Latte]

82. The country doesn't scare me ... But lots of the people who live there do!

Not all! Not all!

Yeah, yeah, I know there are plenty o' cool rural folks. Still, I always have a huge sense of relief to come back to the city after a trip away.

[montanto]

83. Hey Oregonian,

I was an Oregonian too for a long time (still am at heart I guess). I love Portland, never get back enough. I lived there for ten years.

I'm going to Coos Bay in a couple of weeks to visit my dad. Coos Bay freaks me out a little, but the even smaller towns around it really give me the willies.

Once I was driving with a friend through Heppner in north eastern Oregon, and as we passed through town people on the sidewalks stopped and stared, people in oncoming vehicles practically drove off the road looking at us. It was a little "Deliverance" moment for us and we were happy to get out of there.

I'm much happier in cities where I blend in and I can distinguish between real danger and imagined danger.

[Shell Beau]

44. But not when they are around strangers. Some people are

not comfortable around dogs. Dogs should be able to run free. But there are times when that is not appropriate.

[taterguy]

47. The dude in the background is trembling with fear

[Shell Beau]

50. Is that dude in the background you?

:P

[DS1]

51. Of course it's him

You can clearly see that he's posting on a laptop about riding his bike everywhere

[MrCoffee]

52. Win

:thumbsup:

[taterguy]

55. Har de har har

[RadiationTherapy]

45. Eeeeexxxxxcellleent.

*Rubs hands greedily*

All is going according to plan.

[KG]

66. 50+ replies?

[RadiationTherapy]

68. Do I get a prize? Was it too easy by spinning it off? nt

[MrCoffee]

49. Hey, dog owners, I don't care at all about your dog. Keep it the hell away from me.

That is all.

[Bucky]

56. I hate these Olive Garden threads

They're so... I dunno... so tollbooth.

[Radical Activist]

58. I can't wait for some future thread where I talk about brining an unleashed dog to Olive Garden

[Bucky]

60. No, I meant when a new mom goes into the OG with her baby and "unleashes her dogs"

Actually, no, I didn't mean that. But I think it's a great expression.

[Radical Activist]

61. I think the proper term would be

unleashing the sweater puppies.

[KG]

65. 'let the puppies breathe!, 'let the puppies breathe!'

a famous TB cheer.

[LibDemAlways]

70. Yesterday I went to visit some people I haven't seen

in almost a year and their dog greeted me by running into the room growling and then biting my foot. It hurt like hell. My friends were concerned but quick to explain that their little darling is basically untrainable, hates people, and has become increasingly hostile and aggressive of late. He's also recently bitten two other people.

I was giving an elderly friend of my mother's a ride the other day and noticed red marks all up and down her legs. She explained a neighbor's dog had attacked her and bit her multiple times. When I asked where the owner was while this was happening, she said the owner didn't think it was any big deal.

I have no problem with dogs that are kept under control by their owners, but it's downright rude, not to mention dangerous, to let a person walk into a situation where he or she could be injured by someone's out-of-control pet.

If a dog's behavior is unpredictable, that dog has no business being unleashed around unsuspecting strangers.

[cwydro]

71. I have two big dogs frequently off leash

in the ocean:evilgrin: oh, and IBTL!

[taterguy]

72. Where's the pic of the tennis player that they mauled and stole that ball from?

[Shell Beau]

73. He's dead! Duh!

:P

[cwydro]

75. The EMTs wouldn't let me near the ambulance...

:rofl:

[BreweryYardRat]

80. A yappy ratdog that tried to bite me Saturday night was on leash.

Little bastard didn't manage to get through my pants, thankfully. But until November or so, it's going to be too hot for anything but shorts during the day. If I run into that dog again in the daytime, I have a distinct feeling I'll need bandaids and antiseptic.

It's not unleashed dogs that anger me, it's untrained dogs.