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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my DD was 6 years old, we were in a relatively empty park pretending to play baseball. She would bat the pretend ball and then run the bases for a home run. We were having fun. Then an off-leash dog decided that this looked like a fun game. It came tearing after her barking and lunging and she screamed and ran faster. Of course, this really made the dog want to chase her. She finally fell to the ground screaming and the dog bit her. It was a small dog but she was also small. The whole thing was really terrifying. The owner just said sorry my (little angel dog) has never done anything like that before. This is the problem.[/quote] 
 
That’s not ideal obviously but was your daughter killed? That’s the issue [/quote]

Uh, that is not the issue.

Like obviously we should take actions to ensure dogs aren't mauling 1st graders in the park but also dogs shouldn't be chasing 1st graders until they fall down and then biting them either.

BTW experiences like that are a great way to ensure that kids in your neighborhood don't like dogs which will make their parents much less tolerant of your dogs. My kid became terrified of dogs after an off leash dog barked really loud at her on the street. It was such a stupid situation -- we were in a crowded shopping district and this woman's dog encountered my 3 yr old and started barking at her and then the woman came up a second later and just stood there. The dog didn't attack or bite but was taller than my kid and SUPER loud and scared her really bad. We picked her up as it happened and calmed her down but after that she became very nervous around dogs and still doesn't really like them. Even friend and family dogs, she mostly just tolerates.

So just an FYI that your crappy dog owner behavior is creating a generation of kids who dislike dogs. Good work.[/quote]

Some of these people are totally unhinged.

FYI - the unleashed dog barking at you is a dual violation: both for being off-leash, and for the unwanted contact. While I know the off-leash idiots are going to completely come unglued when they hear this, their poorly-trained dogs aren't supposed to bark at you, lunge toward you, enter your space or do other things that might reasonably be perceived as likely to cause fear.

Some of these idiots just want to own a dog. They don't want to train their dog, there's no pride in their working relationship with their animal(s), they just check off the "get a dog" ticky box on their life to-do list and then pretend none of the rules of dog ownership apply to them (as long as their dog isn't a "pit bull"). Absolutely idiotic, the lot of them.

I'm sorry your daughter was taught early on that dogs are scary, simply so that some jerk could break the rules and act an ass. Entirely too typical these days.[/quote]

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