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On the other side of this, we've let Crumpet
off the lead for the first time this week and she definitely gets a bit carried away sometimes. She doesn't seem to understand that she's 20kg+ and still growing. It's quite nerve wracking seeing her hurtling towards some ancient pug who clearly doesn't want to play and hoping that she stops before she flattens it. I don't think she would ever intentionally hurt another dog but we have had to put her on the lead a couple of times when she's not got the message from a less playful/older/smaller dog.
She got a taste of her own medicine earlier when a much bigger dog, about her age, was trying to play but was too unco-ordinated and gangly to control it's limbs properly, resulting in Crumpet getting knocked over into a massive patch of mud. She didn't seem to mind but it's not hard to imagine a dog picking up an injury like that!
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I’ve noticed an increasing amount of nervous puppy owners recently. Odie will bound over and play with a puppy, who is clearly have lots of fun in the way dogs do. The owner will be wringing their hands and murmuring about how they’re playing a bit rough and I’ll have to call Odie away, much to his and the puppy’s disappointment. 🤷♂️
I think there’s a lot of people who anthropomorphosise dogs a bit too much - they’re animals and they play like animals!