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This guy and his Jack Russell. What should I do?

This guy purposely lets his aggressive dog get dangerously close. Should I say, or do something?

  • Yes. Have a nice word with him in a calm and advisory manner.

  • Yes. Express my discontent in an abrupt manner.

  • Launch him.

  • Launch his dog.

  • Launch him and his dog.

  • Let my dog eventually fend for himself.

  • Ignore it until a more serious incident occurs.

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LeighPing

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This gentleman, on many occasions, always allows his psycho dog to get too close to both me and my generally very well behaved dog.

Now, my dog is only well behaved to the point of self defence. Whenever he's been persistently attacked / bitten and forced to defend himself, on 4 previous occasions, the other dogs have always been left bleeding. I'd rather it didn't get to that point. But I can see that it's coming. These 2 clips are over a year apart. Any advice welcomed. Thanks. :)

 
flecc

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As a cyclist I only ever complained about a dog once, a farm owned greyhound that would aggressively chase me trying to bite my ankles every time I passed. After I spoke with the farmer who calmly accepted my complaint, he shot the dog dead a few seconds later as I was leaving.

The moral is that one can never know the outcome of a complaint.
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Gubbins

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I dont know which is worst..
Small Yappy aggressive dogs, or retractable leads.. Well actually I do.. Its big Yappy aggressive dogs.
Or, its the "Don't worry he wont bite".. "he only wants a sniff!"
Or, " he is only being friendly" and just wants to wipe his muddy paws on my clean jeans..
 
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flecc said:
As a cyclist I only ever complained about a dog once, a farm owned greyhound that would aggressively chase me trying to bite my ankles ever time I passed. After I spoke with the farmer who calmly accepted my complaint, he shot the dog dead a few seconds later as I was leaving.

The moral is that one can never know the outcome of a complaint.
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Just think, you could have complained about his missus. :eek:
 
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flecc said:
The moral is that one can never know the outcome of a complaint.
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I was at the local sawdust saloon with my lad when a guy, sitting near a mini-skirted young lady said to him;-

"Keep looking at my girlfriend and there'll be two hits! Me, hitting you, and you hitting the floor!" :mad:

To be fair to her, she was a tasty wee morsel. :p

Before my boy could respond, and whilst you could hear a pin drop, I humorously interjected by saying;-

"Mate, don't go there please. If you hit him, there'll be eight hits.. You hitting him, him hitting you, you hitting the deck and the ambulance hitting ninety. Then you hitting A&E and, because you can no longer work, you'll have to hit the dole queue. Then your girlfriend will have to hit the streets to pay the bills. After doing that for a while, she'll probably hit the crack pipe. So just ask yourself one question punk.. Do you feel lucky!" :D

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Gringo

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I'd like to think he would be open and concerned when you explained how he is personally responsible for what his dog dose and he could be prosecuted should it get tangled up in your spokes :eek:

In reality he is probably like many owners of little yappy dogs and can't see any fault in there dogs, if there's a problem, then it's your problem, not there's. He's likly to get all defensive and tell you to p!$$ o## :p
 
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Back to the dogs.
I think that if you do complain to him, he will point out that you do not have your dog on a lead.
 
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mike killay said:
Back to the dogs.
I think that if you do complain to him, he will point out that you do not have your dog on a lead.
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Sorry to have to agree here.. it's difficult to criticize a dog owner on their dogs behaviour when its on a lead and ones own dog, however well behaved, is running loose..
But I think you probably expected that..
I often come across a chap with a sheep dog ... he has good control but it keeps trying to round me up as I walk past.
 
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LeighPing

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mike killay said:
Back to the dogs.
I think that if you do complain to him, he will point out that you do not have your dog on a lead.
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Being on a lead is, unknown to many, not a requirement of the law. The legal requirement is to have 'control' of your dog. :)

Gubbins said:
I often come across a chap with a sheep dog ... he has good control but it keeps trying to round me up as I walk past.
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Were you wearing a 'fleece'? :D
 
LeighPing

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Gubbins said:
Actually I usually am.
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It's a fair point about the lead though. When leashed, he would perceive the Jack Russell's aggression as being threatening towards me and become defensive. In this video, he's taking a crap, when the big dog clearly steps up aggressively.

Off leash, he would avoid him. Leashed to my scooter, and with me being in the path of the threat, his response is automatic. Most GSD's will do that.

Shown with the other dogs at the start of the video, you can also see that if there's no threat, there's no problem.

 
Croxden

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LeighPing said:
I was at the local sawdust saloon with my lad when a guy, sitting near a mini-skirted young lady said to him;-

"Keep looking at my girlfriend and there'll be two hits! Me, hitting you, and you hitting the floor!" :mad:

To be fair to her, she was a tasty wee morsel. :p

Before my boy could respond, and whilst you could hear a pin drop, I humorously interjected by saying;-

"Mate, don't go there please. If you hit him, there'll be eight hits.. You hitting him, him hitting you, you hitting the deck and the ambulance hitting ninety. Then you hitting A&E and, because you can no longer work, you'll have to hit the dole queue. Then your girlfriend will have to hit the streets to pay the bills. After doing that for a while, she'll probably hit the crack pipe. So just ask yourself one question punk.. Do you feel lucky!" :D

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I don't believe you, but wish it was true.
 
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Croxden said:
I don't believe you, but wish it was true.
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Nor should you, when we're in jocular vein. :)

It was a banterous jest that my workmates and I were throwing around one day.. and you know how one thing leads to another. 8 hits was the most we could get to, at the time. :rolleyes:

Did the Clint gif work?
 
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