Have you ever resolved things amicably with the neighbor who insists on walking her dog off leash?

[Anonymous]

Keeping the dog on a leash makes things safer for all involved. Call animal control. That's all you can really do. The woman with the off-leash dog has terrible manners and is only thinking of herself.

[Anonymous]

We had this problem. First the dog attached the neighbor. Then the owner. Then mauled the lady who always walked her dog near our house. Then almost killed another dog. Gotta love those neighbors. Finally animal control "arrested" the dog and sentenced it and the owners, but it took 3 years and all those attacks.

[Anonymous]

We had an encounter with an off-leash dog on our walk this morning. I have two dogs who are a little leash-reactive, so it can be a challenge when we encounter an off-leash dog. Seems to depend on the dog. This morning, my husband passed the off-leash dog with our boy dog and all was fine. I passed the off-leash dog and my girl dog barked and lunged. No contact was made, of course, because my dog was restrained. But, it upset the fellow with the off-leashed dog. He yelled at us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had an encounter with an off-leash dog on our walk this morning. I have two dogs who are a little leash-reactive, so it can be a challenge when we encounter an off-leash dog. Seems to depend on the dog. This morning, my husband passed the off-leash dog with our boy dog and all was fine. I passed the off-leash dog and my girl dog barked and lunged. No contact was made, of course, because my dog was restrained. But, it upset the fellow with the off-leashed dog. He yelled at us.

Did the off leash dog walk up to your dog? Or was the off leash dog walking calmly by his/her owner's side, as well behaved as a service dog?

I don't really care if the dog is off leash as long as it isn't wandering up to me and my dog. But that guy that yelled at you is completely unrealistic to expect that other dog owners will have that same type of perfect control over their dogs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had an encounter with an off-leash dog on our walk this morning. I have two dogs who are a little leash-reactive, so it can be a challenge when we encounter an off-leash dog. Seems to depend on the dog. This morning, my husband passed the off-leash dog with our boy dog and all was fine. I passed the off-leash dog and my girl dog barked and lunged. No contact was made, of course, because my dog was restrained. But, it upset the fellow with the off-leashed dog. He yelled at us.

Did the off leash dog walk up to your dog? Or was the off leash dog walking calmly by his/her owner's side, as well behaved as a service dog?

I don't really care if the dog is off leash as long as it isn't wandering up to me and my dog. But that guy that yelled at you is completely unrealistic to expect that other dog owners will have that same type of perfect control over their dogs.

The off-leash dog and its owner were coming one way on the sidewalk. We were heading the other way. I stepped into the road as much as I could without getting into traffic to give them space. The off-leash dog was not entirely under voice control, but did pretty well. There was no physical contact between the dogs, just some barking. I was more concerned with my dog and getting past the other dog and getting out of the street.

In any event, it seemed to upset the guy who had the off-leash dog. I suppose if his dog was on leash, he could have kept it more on the other side of the side walk and created more space between the dogs and avoided the entire situation.

[Anonymous]

Back to OP's original post. The neighbor with the off-leash dog is not being considerate of others. But, there is probably nothing that can be done about it. Try to avoid her and her dog. That's all you can do. Sorry, OP. Animal control in many jurisdictions really doesn't want to deal with this sort of thing.

[Anonymous]

How is the barking going to be helped by a leash?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had an encounter with an off-leash dog on our walk this morning. I have two dogs who are a little leash-reactive, so it can be a challenge when we encounter an off-leash dog. Seems to depend on the dog. This morning, my husband passed the off-leash dog with our boy dog and all was fine. I passed the off-leash dog and my girl dog barked and lunged. No contact was made, of course, because my dog was restrained. But, it upset the fellow with the off-leashed dog. He yelled at us.

Did the off leash dog walk up to your dog? Or was the off leash dog walking calmly by his/her owner's side, as well behaved as a service dog?

I don't really care if the dog is off leash as long as it isn't wandering up to me and my dog. But that guy that yelled at you is completely unrealistic to expect that other dog owners will have that same type of perfect control over their dogs.

The off-leash dog and its owner were coming one way on the sidewalk. We were heading the other way. I stepped into the road as much as I could without getting into traffic to give them space. The off-leash dog was not entirely under voice control, but did pretty well. There was no physical contact between the dogs, just some barking. I was more concerned with my dog and getting past the other dog and getting out of the street.

In any event, it seemed to upset the guy who had the off-leash dog. I suppose if his dog was on leash, he could have kept it more on the other side of the side walk and created more space between the dogs and avoided the entire situation.

It sounds like your dog scared him? Was it an aggressive/protective bark from your dog or a "I want to meet you and play!" bark. The main thing is that you did control your dog - you stepped out of the way to give them room to pass. You did not allow your dog to touch the man or his dog. And the other dog ignored your dog although it does not sound as though this man did anything to help create a distance between the two animals. He just kept walking where he was walking without pulling over and let you deal with your dog's reaction. Which is probably less than he should have done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is the barking going to be helped by a leash?

The leash allows the owners to both create a distance between their animals. Leashed dogs often do not feel comfortable having a strange dog (even a wonderful well behaved dog) walking into "their" space like that.

Having one dog on a leash, the other dog off the leash always puts the leashed dog at a disadvantage because their freedom of movement is restricted.

[Anonymous]

Rat poison mixed with peanut butter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the barking going to be helped by a leash?

The leash allows the owners to both create a distance between their animals. Leashed dogs often do not feel comfortable having a strange dog (even a wonderful well behaved dog) walking into "their" space like that.

Having one dog on a leash, the other dog off the leash always puts the leashed dog at a disadvantage because their freedom of movement is restricted.

What you say is true, however one of my leashed dogs barks quite a bit when encountering any other dog -- on a leash. Barking is breed specific. And it's also a bad habit. I rescued my second beagle in July and we are working on barking right now with an intensive program of training and reinforcement. I think he was neglected before and as you may know, beagles are quite vocal to begin with so there's only so much that can be done about beagle vocalization. I'm not seeing that leashing can prevent each and every problem described in this post. It's not a panacea for all dog problems.

People on DCUM like to blame unleashed dogs for everything. Note that I am not advocating unleashing dogs, but there are limits to what mere leashing accomplishes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the barking going to be helped by a leash?

The leash allows the owners to both create a distance between their animals. Leashed dogs often do not feel comfortable having a strange dog (even a wonderful well behaved dog) walking into "their" space like that.

Having one dog on a leash, the other dog off the leash always puts the leashed dog at a disadvantage because their freedom of movement is restricted.

What you say is true, however one of my leashed dogs barks quite a bit when encountering any other dog -- on a leash. Barking is breed specific. And it's also a bad habit. I rescued my second beagle in July and we are working on barking right now with an intensive program of training and reinforcement. I think he was neglected before and as you may know, beagles are quite vocal to begin with so there's only so much that can be done about beagle vocalization. I'm not seeing that leashing can prevent each and every problem described in this post. It's not a panacea for all dog problems.

People on DCUM like to blame unleashed dogs for everything. Note that I am not advocating unleashing dogs, but there are limits to what mere leashing accomplishes.

I hate the leash reactive rational. If the lunging snarling pit wasn't on a leash the thing would be ripping flesh off me or my dog .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the barking going to be helped by a leash?

The leash allows the owners to both create a distance between their animals. Leashed dogs often do not feel comfortable having a strange dog (even a wonderful well behaved dog) walking into "their" space like that.

Having one dog on a leash, the other dog off the leash always puts the leashed dog at a disadvantage because their freedom of movement is restricted.

What you say is true, however one of my leashed dogs barks quite a bit when encountering any other dog -- on a leash. Barking is breed specific. And it's also a bad habit. I rescued my second beagle in July and we are working on barking right now with an intensive program of training and reinforcement. I think he was neglected before and as you may know, beagles are quite vocal to begin with so there's only so much that can be done about beagle vocalization. I'm not seeing that leashing can prevent each and every problem described in this post. It's not a panacea for all dog problems.

People on DCUM like to blame unleashed dogs for everything. Note that I am not advocating unleashing dogs, but there are limits to what mere leashing accomplishes.

Leashing won't prevent a dog from barking or lunging but it will help to maintain distance between the animals. Most dogs who are barking/lunging on walks are doing so because they are overly excited not because they want to attack the other dog. It's annoying behavior and it absolutely should not be rewarded by allowing the dogs to meet when one of them is acting up. In fact, if acting up means that the dog will actually wind up being pulled further away from the other dog, that might help to reduce the unwanted behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would you not call animal control? The dog attacked another dog. I would have called the very first time. Dogs are beast.

You sound mentally ill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rat poison mixed with peanut butter

Burn in hell