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Sliver · 12-20-2012, 12:46 PM

My daughter is really scared of dogs (she's six). We're trying to work on it with her. "Fortunately," everybody I know has at least two dogs so there is plenty of opportunity to coach her on how to be with dogs...let them sniff you, stand still instead of running away, etc. She makes slow and steady progress, then there is always some ######ed dog owner that comes along and puts us back at square one.

So this weekend some dumb lady was walking her two dogs with no leash. My daughter and I were walking along the sidewalk. Right away I could tell they were friendly so I wasn't concerned at all for her safety, but she was completely terrified. Of course the dumb owner is like twenty feet back thinking it's the cutest thing to watch her mutts interact with a little girl. She's saying all the usual terrible dog owner things like "they're just saying hi!", "they're really friendly!", "they just want to give you a kiss!", etc.

Luckily, I have my gloves on so I can kind of push them away with my hands and my legs (I won't touch a filthy dog with my bare hands unless there is a sink nearby where I can wash). But my daughter is losing her junk. In her panic, I can't get her to stand still because these heaving, panting balls of nastiness are snarfing all over her. I picked her up and it made them want to sniff her and get their slobber on her even more. I was so fataing pissed.

Then the owner finally saunters over to talk about her dogs to me. This one is very vocal. This one is about four or five...we're not sure because she's a rescue and we're so great because we rescue crappy dogs people throw away for a reason, etc. Then she tries to coach my daughter on how to pet the dogs. Um, no thanks. We couldn't have made it any more clear we didn't want to be anywhere near her gross dogs.

Anyway, my point is if you have a dog please don't assume everybody wants to touch it/be touched by it. And if you can see somebody is scared of it, grab your dog and GTFO. My six year-old doesn't need a little lesson on how to love mutts from some stranger.

12-20-2012, 12:46 PM	#1
Sliver evil of fart Join Date: Sep 2009 Exp:	If your dog is scaring somebody, please restrain your dog My daughter is really scared of dogs (she's six). We're trying to work on it with her. "Fortunately," everybody I know has at least two dogs so there is plenty of opportunity to coach her on how to be with dogs...let them sniff you, stand still instead of running away, etc. She makes slow and steady progress, then there is always some ######ed dog owner that comes along and puts us back at square one. So this weekend some dumb lady was walking her two dogs with no leash. My daughter and I were walking along the sidewalk. Right away I could tell they were friendly so I wasn't concerned at all for her safety, but she was completely terrified. Of course the dumb owner is like twenty feet back thinking it's the cutest thing to watch her mutts interact with a little girl. She's saying all the usual terrible dog owner things like "they're just saying hi!", "they're really friendly!", "they just want to give you a kiss!", etc. Luckily, I have my gloves on so I can kind of push them away with my hands and my legs (I won't touch a filthy dog with my bare hands unless there is a sink nearby where I can wash). But my daughter is losing her junk. In her panic, I can't get her to stand still because these heaving, panting balls of nastiness are snarfing all over her. I picked her up and it made them want to sniff her and get their slobber on her even more. I was so fataing pissed. Then the owner finally saunters over to talk about her dogs to me. This one is very vocal. This one is about four or five...we're not sure because she's a rescue and we're so great because we rescue crappy dogs people throw away for a reason, etc. Then she tries to coach my daughter on how to pet the dogs. Um, no thanks. We couldn't have made it any more clear we didn't want to be anywhere near her gross dogs. Anyway, my point is if you have a dog please don't assume everybody wants to touch it/be touched by it. And if you can see somebody is scared of it, grab your dog and GTFO. My six year-old doesn't need a little lesson on how to love mutts from some stranger.