So we have a 13 month old Siberian husky/Staffordshire terrier mix (pitsky) that we take to a near by park. We’ve spent $1,200+ on lots and lots of training and every once in a while we take her to a park on a 20’ leash to burn off some steam.
There was no one at the park that day, which was nice! The area we go to is actually a designated “on leash dog park”, but despite that people let their dogs off leash there all the time and when we see that we leave. Sorry puppy!
Anyway, this is the day before we leave for a long road trip to see family and wanted to let her have fun and took her out on a long lead to practice recall, play, and let her sniff and get tired.
About 10 minutes in, this Great Pyrenees comes BARRELING toward her, and I just so happened to be looped around a near by tree (she was sniffing and walking around).
Owner is no where to be seen, our girl is stiff and obviously uncomfortable (but very friendly with dogs THANK GOD) but this great pyr is jumping on her back, overdoing it and making her very stressed.
I look and this dog has no collar on, no harness, no way of quickly grabbing it. I look in my bag for my extra leash (always carry one for this exact instance) and then the owner shows up. (It’s been about 3 minutes at this point).
She hollers “oh my goodness is your dog in training?!?” Tries recalling her dog, fails. My partner tries separating the dogs, fails. After an awkward exchange of trying to get this Pyr that lasts another minute or two, she’s finally able to get her dog.
Now my dog is wound up, crying, whining, pulling at the leash to get to the Pyr and her dog is doing the same.
There are fucking leash laws for a reason? And I’m tired of hearing “well my dog has good recall 🤪” Do you think that makes you immune to the law? How dare you put my dog in danger.
No. It doesn’t. In fact they rarely do, especially in the city, on a busy street, at a children’s playground. Our dog, being a husky/pit mix would’ve been found at fault if they got in a fight because YOUR poorly trained dog caused a fight by being off leash.shes on leash yes, because she’s in training but more so because it’s safer and it’s the law.
Just leash your fucking dog.
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