Dogs at the bus stop?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dogs don't belong at a bus stop, unless it is a service animal. Bus stops are for people.

To those of you who can predict what dogs can do, you are wrong. A mom thought it was safe to bring her dog to the bus stop. These folks lived accross the street from the bus stop. No need whatsoever to bring the dog. Well, one day, several of the kids at the bus stop started taunting the dog while the clueless owner chatted away. When my daughter arrived at the bus stop, the dog was so riled up, he lunged at something dangling from her backpack and missed and bit her on the arm. She landed flat on her butt on the concrete sidewalk. I also had another child who was terrified of dogs. Rightfully so, she had been bitten by one as a toddler. I was so scared that if she saw this dog again, she would launch into panic mode and race out into the street and I let the owner know that. The owner promised that she would not bring the dog to the bus stop after that and promised to get obedience training. She did neither and her husband was a real you know what to me. I called animal control and that put an end to it. It is NOT cute to bring your dog to the bus stop. It is dangerous. Kids wear dangly things on their backpacks that can attract dogs and they shouldn't have to adjust for a dog owner.

You are the neighbor from hell.
Drive your kids to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of kids are nervous around dogs or allergic. I really don't think dogs belong at an area with lots of unknown and unpredictable kids.

Ooh another parent that thinks the whole world needs to revolve around their allergic kid. Why do we always have to conform to the lowest common denominator?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Alternately, maybe the person with the dog phobia could wait a ways away.

So a child who is scared of dogs ( a child, mind you- not a rational adult) should have to wait for the bus " a ways away" so the DOG can stand where the BUS comes.

Makes sense. Dog people are so annoying. Your dog doesn't need to go everywhere with you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had my younger child strapped in her stroller at the bus stop waiting for her kindergarten brother's bus to arrive. One of the large dogs got right up in my younger child's face before I could block it. I said something and the owner was polite but that is just NOT COOL.

Dogs get excitable around kids. Then they jump and it can freak kids out. And of course the owner knows he's being playful and says "He's just playing!" but a kid who doesn't know your dog or isn't around dogs a lot (because they're allergic and can't own them or stay at houses with them), doesn't know that. It isn't fair to make kids deal with a dog they don't know when they're just trying to wait for the bus.

It's a public space. If kids are going to be in a public space, its completely fair to ask them to learn to deal with other people and animals and things and events that occur in public spaces. If they don't learn to handle themselves over something that small, they are going to be neurotic messes their entire lives. Stop coddling these kids. It's not good for them.

^ THIS

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had my younger child strapped in her stroller at the bus stop waiting for her kindergarten brother's bus to arrive. One of the large dogs got right up in my younger child's face before I could block it. I said something and the owner was polite but that is just NOT COOL.

Dogs get excitable around kids. Then they jump and it can freak kids out. And of course the owner knows he's being playful and says "He's just playing!" but a kid who doesn't know your dog or isn't around dogs a lot (because they're allergic and can't own them or stay at houses with them), doesn't know that. It isn't fair to make kids deal with a dog they don't know when they're just trying to wait for the bus.

It's a public space. If kids are going to be in a public space, its completely fair to ask them to learn to deal with other people and animals and things and events that occur in public spaces. If they don't learn to handle themselves over something that small, they are going to be neurotic messes their entire lives. Stop coddling these kids. It's not good for them.

^ THIS

Agree, Best post of the thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:After my child was bitten by a dog, I did a google search on how to avoid getting bitten by dogs and it really opened my eyes to the kind of damage some dogs have done to young children and how to avoid it in the first place. A big "no,no" is to NEVER allow your child to put his face close to a dog's mouth. I encourage all parents to learn about how to keep their children safe even if they aren't dog owners, especially since some dog owners on here think its perfectly fine to bring their dog to the bus stop.

I'm sorry your child was bitten. But…I have to ask. Was this truly not common sense/innate defensive parental wisdom for you????

Scroll back a few pages and you will read about what happened to my kid. NO, it was 120 percent the dog owners' fault. You are a joke!

I don't want to based upon your reply. It's common sense to teach your children not to put ANYTHING near a dogs face. If you had to read that on the Internet, you, my dear, are an idiot and it's no wonder your poor child was hurt.

I'm not a joke, I'm a good parent and I don't like dogs (well- I do but I'm too much of a neat freak to own one) , but I sure do respect them and protect my kids from them )and them from my kids). Therefore we live together peacefully.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Another invented problem.

Not OP, and not an invented problem. Yesterday, at our ES bus stop, there were FOUR dogs and one running around off leash. We have 22 children at the bus stop and it gets crowded, if you are standing off to the side with your leashed dog who can sit, fine. Not okay when all the dogs are barking, jumping, on very long extended leashes, generally causing a nuisance.

Same happens when we walk to school...dog walkers take up entire sidewalks and allow their dogs to be on a very long leash, which means the dog is sniffing every kid, jumping up, making kids move out of the way.

Time to call the waaaahhbulance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had my younger child strapped in her stroller at the bus stop waiting for her kindergarten brother's bus to arrive. One of the large dogs got right up in my younger child's face before I could block it. I said something and the owner was polite but that is just NOT COOL.

Dogs get excitable around kids. Then they jump and it can freak kids out. And of course the owner knows he's being playful and says "He's just playing!" but a kid who doesn't know your dog or isn't around dogs a lot (because they're allergic and can't own them or stay at houses with them), doesn't know that. It isn't fair to make kids deal with a dog they don't know when they're just trying to wait for the bus.

It's a public space. If kids are going to be in a public space, its completely fair to ask them to learn to deal with other people and animals and things and events that occur in public spaces. If they don't learn to handle themselves over something that small, they are going to be neurotic messes their entire lives. Stop coddling these kids. It's not good for them.

First quoted poster here. Are you kidding me last poster??? And what if my child, strapped in her stroller, had grabbed at the dog?!? How do you think that would have gone???? I very rarely curse but......you're a fucking idiot. As well as entitled.

NP here. If your child grabbed at my dog, I would tell you that if you can't control it, you should keep it away from others.

Baaaaahaaaaaaaaa yes!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I get the impression that the people complaining about dogs know absolutely nothing about dogs. We have dogs at the bus stop as well as people walking by with their dogs who stop to chat. There has never been a problem or a complaint.

1) Yes, if a dog is a biter the owner should get rid of it. 99% of domestic dogs have never bitten anyone and would never try to.
2) Dogs are not attracted to dangly things on backpacks. They are not fish.
3) Dog allergies are an indoor problem. Nobody is going to have an allergy problem from a dog walking by them on the sidewalk.
4) If the kid has a dog phobia, it's likely due to the parent's negative reaction to dogs. The bus stop is a great place to get to know dogs and lose the phobia.

I have had over a dozen dogs. My child had a phobia of dogs because when she stayed over at a relative's house and got bit by their dog. Period. I had nothing to do with her intense fear. NO, the bus stop is NOT your personal classroom in which you see it as your mission to teach kids to get over their phobia of dogs. WHY? Because kids will run into traffic in FEAR of a dog. The best place to get over their phobia of dogs is in a safe place where they don't face the danger of RUNNING out into traffic.

Sounds like Darwinism to me....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get the impression that the people complaining about dogs know absolutely nothing about dogs. We have dogs at the bus stop as well as people walking by with their dogs who stop to chat. There has never been a problem or a complaint.

1) Yes, if a dog is a biter the owner should get rid of it. 99% of domestic dogs have never bitten anyone and would never try to.
2) Dogs are not attracted to dangly things on backpacks. They are not fish.
3) Dog allergies are an indoor problem. Nobody is going to have an allergy problem from a dog walking by them on the sidewalk.
4) If the kid has a dog phobia, it's likely due to the parent's negative reaction to dogs. The bus stop is a great place to get to know dogs and lose the phobia.

I have had over a dozen dogs. My child had a phobia of dogs because when she stayed over at a relative's house and got bit by their dog. Period. I had nothing to do with her intense fear. NO, the bus stop is NOT your personal classroom in which you see it as your mission to teach kids to get over their phobia of dogs. WHY? Because kids will run into traffic in FEAR of a dog. The best place to get over their phobia of dogs is in a safe place where they don't face the danger of RUNNING out into traffic.

Sounds like Darwinism to me....

A PP here. Agreed. My dog is not "RUNNING out into traffic" because of your kid.

Why don't you have your kid under control that it doesn't RUN out into traffic?

[Anonymous]

Keep the dogs at a reasonable distance. There. Done.

[Anonymous]

And the pro-dog/anti-child poster(s) need to calm down.

[Anonymous]

Actually, people who self identify as "anti-child" just need to move to their island. There is something innately wrong with their soul. Don't HAVE a child, I get that, but to hate all children? You are broken.

Now dogs on the other hand? Delicious with a little dijon and rosemary over an open spit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Actually, people who self identify as "anti-child" just need to move to their island. There is something innately wrong with their soul. Don't HAVE a child, I get that, but to hate all children? You are broken.

Now dogs on the other hand? Delicious with a little dijon and rosemary over an open spit.

Has anyone so far identified as "anti-child?" I must have missed that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Actually, people who self identify as "anti-child" just need to move to their island. There is something innately wrong with their soul. Don't HAVE a child, I get that, but to hate all children? You are broken.

Now dogs on the other hand? Delicious with a little dijon and rosemary over an open spit.

Has anyone so far identified as "anti-child?" I must have missed that.

Right? Lol this was dogs at a bus top discussion.
I'd have to assume they are talking about people WITH kids

Try to stay with the tour now and focus