Originally Posted by
cryptid01
City people are funny.
Grew up in a town of 400 people. How about you?
Originally Posted by
Fred Smedley
Having been raised around show dogs and owning a 100lb GSD that will intimidate most anybody on the trail I would only consider running him on remote trails where I can have him heal and then physically holding him if meeting another trail user. Nothing pisses me off more than a strangers dog approaching me or my dog/ child/ wife then smelling me , or possibly biting me because the dipstick feels his dog is friendly. Unless a dog will sit/ stay on command and then not move they have no business being on the trail. This is seldom the case. Dogs are predators and territorial, this means if you are moving fast their instinct is to attack, this means if you get within 10 feet of the owner the dog will likely protect them. My dog may be quite friendly to another dog UNTIL that dog enters my space, then it is war . I hope everybody sees the problems here and why the average dog on a public trail is a bad idea.
Exactly. You just don't know, because it's not your dog, and oftentimes the owner doesn't know either because they love their dog so much and anthropomorphize it so much they basically assume it's incapable of doing anything really harmful.
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