DogsUnleashed

Hellrazer

Squall19 wrote: »

Why am I not suprised:rolleyes:

Just typical of this forum.

When I said something wrong, ISDW was the first one to come raging in all high and mighty making herself look great and making me look a right fool.

Then I ask a few nice questions and guess what no reply.

Thanks for nothing.

Theres no need for the attitude.

As for no answer to your questions--you do know that in a users public profile you can check when they were last online??.So before you go accusing anyone of not answering your questions you should really check that.I could tell quite easily that ISDW hasnt been online since your question was asked.

Hellrazer

ISDW wrote: »

I do have some pics.;)

Go on post them in the pic thread--I d love to see them.Absolutely love Mals and hope that someday I`ll get my own one.

Chris_Heilong

Good luck with her, Malamutes are rarely dangerous to people so something awful must have happened to her, I can only imagine.

ISDW

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Good luck with her, Malamutes are rarely dangerous to people so something awful must have happened to her, I can only imagine.

Well I had to tell them to stop beating her with the lead while I was there, so goodness only knows what they were doing to her with no-one around. All the guy had to do was say her name and she hit the floor:(

Shanao

ISDW wrote: »

Well I had to tell them to stop beating her with the lead while I was there, so goodness only knows what they were doing to her with no-one around. All the guy had to do was say her name and she hit the floor:(

I honestly dont know how people can treat their dogs like this. I probably would have decked the ****er if I had been there. Good on you for taking her in, poor thing has ended up in the right place at least.

Zapperzy

ISDW wrote: »

Well I had to tell them to stop beating her with the lead while I was there, so goodness only knows what they were doing to her with no-one around. All the guy had to do was say her name and she hit the floor:(

Poor girl. I'm with Shanao in that I would have turned the lead on him and given him a nice wollop on the nose. You have to wonder why some people even have dogs in the first place.

lrushe

Shanao wrote: »

I honestly dont know how people can treat their dogs like this. I probably would have decked the ****er if I had been there. Good on you for taking her in, poor thing has ended up in the right place at least.

Zapperzy wrote: »

Poor girl. I'm with Shanao in that I would have turned the lead on him and given him a nice wollop on the nose. You have to wonder why some people even have dogs in the first place.

There's a scene in the 2nd Ace Ventura movie where a guy is whipping and whipping a horse and Ace Ventura goes over and takes the whip off the guy and wallops him across the back of the legs, the guy collapses in agony and Ace says "funny, it didn't look that sore when you were doing it to the horse".:D If I'd a penny for everytime I felt like doing that to some eejit mistreating an animal I would be living it up somewhere with some sunshine.:)
Sorry totally OT, fair play though ISDW

adelcrowsmel

Just bumping this thread as the issue has been in the media spotlight again in recent days.

If you haven't already had your say or signed the petition and would like to, please do so soon as the deadline is fast approaching (20/02/2012)

http://www.dogs-unleashed.org/

Autosport

As a fellow dog owner, I always have my dog on a leash when out walking him out of respect for other people who also use the same area but i'm now restricted to where i can walk him because of other dog walkers who dont have their dogs on leashes and are uncontrollable, not very pleasant when your trying to stop other peoples dogs from attacking yours who is on a leash.

If people would please have their dogs on leashes in public areas it would make life so much easier and not everyone likes dogs.

Vince32

Strum wrote: »

Folks. Have you heard what the Coco are proposing now? This is the Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown CoCo but if it goes through then others will follow.
Bet you havn't read this anywhere in the media.

ALL Dogs on Leads at ALL times...on the Beach, Parks etc etc etc...:eek:
I know you dog haters out there will be saying Good, BUT it's NOT good at all. Sorry.

This is a blanket 24 x 7 x 365 days ban on dogs being exercised off leads on ALL beaches and most parks in the County

In enacting such bye-laws it is apparent that those involved have little or no idea of the care and treatment of dogs. Any manual will advise that dogs need space to run, and to socialise for their physical and mental well being. Dogs exercised regularly are healthier and happier… as are their walkers. In these times of fitness awareness it seems ridiculous for the County Council to deprive people of such regimes.

Responsible dog owners would encourage proper monitoring of beaches to ensure anti-social behaviour by both dogs and their owners. No conscientious owner would like to feel responsible for a child going blind and accepts that cleaning up faeces is a serious and important health and safety issue. The few dog owners that give dog owners in general a bad name should be penalised as appropriate.

Dog walkers would also like to see banned breeds or otherwise dangerous dogs carefully monitored and any offenders properly prosecuted as again this can be a danger to individuals as well as other dogs. But, as most dog owners will acknowledge, problems relating to dogs in open spaces, such as the beaches where they can run free and socialise, are very rare.

We will actively encourage the County Manager to enact sensible bye-laws that will benefit dogs, their owners and the county coffers


Please sign this petition and pass it on. Paste the link on your wall on facebook and ask EVERYBODY to sign it, thanks. WOOF!

http://www.petitiononline.ie/petition/dogs-unleashed/80

Just wanted to weigh in on the op,

I don't know how or why this has came to be, but I would only agree to it if all the children were kept in harnesses and not allowed to use the playgrounds...

I mean my GOD!! dogs are not robots to sit and come, and fetch when asked and then just power down for the night like a DVD player or something.

Their physical and mental well being is at stake, something like this should be opposed at every turn, it's borderline cruelty in my opinion, and while the thread seems to have veered toward northern / spitz breeds, who for their own safety need to be leashed, and get their exercise in a more controlled manner.
Not all breeds can exercise like a working dog, they need to run and play and enjoy themselves as much as any other animal, or would the Co.Co. offer treadmills to all affected dog owners???

Well that's my little rant.. tear it apart guys...

EDIT: Just wanted to add, if people picked up their dogs s^*t in the first place there wouldn't be such an issue, dogs are beautiful, beloved creatures and they shouldn't be punished for their owners laziness.

iguana

adelcrowsmel wrote: »

Just bumping this thread as the issue has been in the media spotlight again in recent days.

If you haven't already had your say or signed the petition and would like to, please do so soon as the deadline is fast approaching (20/02/2012)

http://www.dogs-unleashed.org/

Signed. What makes me so cross about this type of initiative is that having been a dog owner in London for most of my dog owning life I can see just how utterly ludicrous the arguments for it are. If an extremely high density city like London can manage to allow dogs to be exercised off lead at all times in the vast majority of their very, very, very busy parks there is no argument at all for Dublin parks that are mostly empty in comparison to bring in this type of legislation.

The thing that makes me just as angry is that Dublin parks are disgraceful compared to London parks. In London parks are well taken care of, they are community hubs always full of people and activity. They are important to the people and to the councils. They don't just have playgrounds, they have types of playgrounds, well maintained tennis/basketball/squash courts, some have outdoor gym equipment, skating parks are easy to find, large paddling pools filled regularly with fresh water in summer, well maintained toilets, council run cafes and informations centres and free museums, etc. In most Dublin parks I've been in you are lucky to find more than one bin and even then it might not have any room in it. This type of initiative strikes me as pretending to care about parks but not actually caring at all.

Vince32

Just a further point to my previous, RB list should be abolished and instead make a theory test for owning one, just like driving or owning a gun, potentially dangerous but with the proper education it becomes a tool or a companion and not a weapon.

Tool - Guard dogs, sniffer dogs, tracking dogs, police dogs etc. (so there is no confusion)

Hell I'd be happy if everyone had to take a theory test before owning a dog, at least then the proper consideration would be given to all breeds, fairly. Instead of calling one breed "potentially dangerous", it would then become the proper issue of uneducated buffoons being "potentially dangerous" and thus solve all our problems in one fell swoop.

I've heard it said before, there are no dangerous dogs, just dangerous owners / handlers, which I still believe to be true, and in my opinion where the true fault lies.

The dogs are the victims in all this, and it frustrates me the way "officials" can just throw up any laws they can imagine and expect it to solve the underlying problem.

RATM

Campaign video on broadsheet.ie
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/06/18/keep-dogs-on-our-beaches/