Hi everyone,
I've started taking my girls out for seperate walks now, Sasha needs more training on hers (her recall isn't too good yet) and Ellie needs to be encouraged to run a bit more on hers (she's a bit overweight).  So, this morning, I take Sasha out on a trailing line and she was fine, BUT, then someone I know stopped to talk to me so I was momentarily distracted when Sasha decided to take off after another dog (who I didn't know was there), of course, I didn't brace myself for this or call her back because this chap was chatting away, so I ended up on my backside in front of 2 kids football teams and their parents - I was so embarrassed!!!
THEN, I dropped Sasha off at home and picked up Ellie, as soon as we walked on to the field a GSD who belongs to one of my neighbours immediately ran at us barking and snrling, luckily he stopped when I shouted at him (I've seen other dog owners doing this to this dog).  This dog has attacked Ellie three times now and the first time I met him I didn't realise what he was like and Ellie was off the lead so he managed to pin her to the ground with his jaws round her neck!! I've had a word with this dogs owner before and he says 'he's only playing'!!!  Well, he definitely was NOT playing so this time I went over to him (he was miles away from the dog at the time and didn't even call him when he ran over barking and snarling at us!!) I asked him to keep his dog under control because I didn't like him trying to bite my dog - he still insisted that his dogs behaviour was 'what dogs did'!!!!  I mean, why should I and everyone else who walks their dogs on this field keep their dogs on a lead just because this one man can't or won't control his????  This dog even snapped at Ellie while I was standing tlking (OK shouting :D) to this man, but he still wouldnt have it that his dog was behaving unreasonably.  One of the football trainers came over and suggested that next time I should hit the dog with a big stick and then he'd have to control it - but I said, It's not the dogs fault, it's the owners - I don't want to go round hitting dogs - some people eh??  IS there anything I can do - other dog walkers moan about him too.  Anyway rant over, sorry it's been a long moan, any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Call the police, the owner doesn't have control of his dog and its an tragedy waiting to happen.

Robert

Dog out of control :rolleyes: definately a call to the warden or the police, depends on who will be more effective in your area ;)

Thanks, the dog warden round here is pretty good, I was thinking of ringing him on Tuesday for advice anyway.  It's helpful to know you agree with me. (I love it when people agree with me :D)

Paula
Dangerous Dog act 1991 - keeping dogs under proper control. Its against the law so call the police and let them know.

Thanks Samw, I' m going to try the dog warden first, then if I don't get anywhere with him, I'll contact the police.  Isn't it so annoying when you spend time bringing up your own dogs, training them, socialising them and generally teaching them to be good doggy citizens and people like this think they can just let their own dogs run riot.  Mind you, I seem to remember saying this about some peoples kids not so long ago :D.  I'm sure I'm getting more intolerant in my (not-so) old age!!