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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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:This wins the weirdest thread of the week....

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Anonymous wrote:It's a public street. People are allowed to walk their dogs on a public street, as long as they obey the leash laws.

Get over it, OP. If your kid has a phobia, it's time to see a therapist.

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Anonymous wrote:It is rude. The children and their parents have no choice but to go to the bus stop. So they are all there waiting for the bus. The dog walker is intruding into the situation because they are making a deliberate choice to walk their dog at that moment to a busy bus stop. Most of the time they think they are socializing their dogs. But really they are just intruding on the school bus kids and their parents. BTW, no one in our neighborhood does this -- too polite. They cross on the other side of the street.

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Anonymous wrote:It's fine to take your dog to a bus stop. But if you take your dog to a bus stop it is up to you to control your dog. If some kids aren't behaving nicely, it is up to you to remove the dog.

It's also the parents' responsibility to teach their kids not to be cruel to animals.

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.

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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.

Sounds to me that it's children misbehaving, not the dogs. You shouldn't have called animal control, you should have contacted the parents.

As for you - go pound sand. A bus stop is a public place. I don't have a dog, but when I get one I'll make sure to bring one just to piss people like you off.

Anonymous wrote:It's fine to take your dog to a bus stop. But if you take your dog to a bus stop it is up to you to control your dog. If some kids aren't behaving nicely, it is up to you to remove the dog.

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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.

Alas, this is not a dog problem. It's a dog-owner problem. And I don't think you will have much success asking them to keep their dogs on a short leash.

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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.

[/b]wwwSounds to me that it's children misbehaving, not the dogs.[b] You shouldn't have called animal control, you should have contacted the parents.

As for you - go pound sand. A bus stop is a public place. I don't have a dog, but when I get one I'll make sure to bring one just to piss people like you off.