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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The dogs were 20 yards away from their owners and jumping on people unknown to them.  The dogs should not have been off leash regardless but it is extra egregious that the women clearly didn't have their dogs under voice control since they couldn't call them off.  A 10 month old dog is almost full size at that point so the owner sees "puppy" and others see "adult dog".  I feel awful for the dog but not the woman.[/quote]

People in this area have an irrational fear of black labs.  I don't understand it, but since adopting a rescue black lab, we have discovered it.

Anyone with any knowledge at all of labs, or most large breed dogs, could look at a 10-month old almost-full-size puppy and see "puppy".  This man was crazy.  It's a bizarre cold thing to do, shoot a dog in front of the owner.  I wonder how long his SO will stay with him after this.
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You should see the difference in the way people treat my light colored, sable German Shepherd vs. my black and tan darker German Shepherd.  People literally cross the street when I'm walking my darker colored dog.  I think people have an irrational fear of dark/black dogs in general which is so silly. [/quote]

Afraid of black labs?  Give me a break.  I'm the OP and I have an almost 100 pound black lab.  And have had other black labs.  The only immediate fear factor they ever generated was from immigrants from a culture not used to dogs.   Children of one of my friends however were all over the dog.

Our current dog was loose in our yard and some stray kids came through.   One looked about 3 and another was about 5 feet tall. Plus another in the middle size.  We were far more than 20 yards away and the dog was less than 1.  Didn't even jump on them - ran over and walked along.  Most good labs even under 1 have some degree of sense-that's why people buy them.

People like the woman with the off leash dog have ruined going to parks etc for us.  On one of many nebulous junkets I had a lab attacked on leash-luckily we were by the car and I had a hiking stick.[/quote]

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