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Keeping your dog safe

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  • #32
    Aoifums
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    I feel bad now. There's no way I'd bring her into a shop as I don't like pets in shops. I'll have to work on something anyway.


  • #33
    ShaShaBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭ShaShaBear


    Aoifums wrote: »
    I feel bad now. There's no way I'd bring her into a shop as I don't like pets in shops. I'll have to work on something anyway.

    Don't take her with you :)


  • #34
    Whispered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    Aoifums wrote: »
    I feel bad now. There's no way I'd bring her into a shop as I don't like pets in shops. I'll have to work on something anyway.

    Aw don't feel bad. Just leave her at home and bring her for her walk later. I'd be so worried about leaving my dogs alone outside a shop. People stealing, or trying to rub them if they didn't want it, or accidentally bumping into them etc.

    Many dogs are taken from outside a shop. I live in a little town and a few months ago a JRT was stolen from outside a garage. Luckily, it was found unharmed, maybe because of a huge campaign to find it. The thief had been caught on CCTV, but I always assumed it'd be safe enough around here. It wasn't :(


  • #35
    Vel
    Registered Users Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    Another issue to consider when tying up a dog outside a shop is if it was approached by well meaning kids who wanted to pet it, it got scared and nipped/bit out of fear.

    I saw a group of older kids approach a little cav tied up outside a shop who was terrified of them. Their intentions were good, they just wanted to pet her but I could imagine if she had snapped out of fear, you'd have the parents of the kids calling her a vicious dog and asking for her to be put to sleep. I'd never put my dog in a situation where that might happen, nevermind the threat of them being stolen


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