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Know you’re not “victim blaming” here, but it’s not bad luck @rhb has these encounters with these dogs, owners not controlling their dogs, apologising after the fact are the ones who are the cause of this.
I don’t like dogs (had a bad experience as a child) but I’ve come to terms with it and I don’t actively dislike them, but now I’ve got a small child being out in parks is my weekends, and seeing owners apologising after their dog has come charging up to my son and me, or has started barking whilst on the lead, and then been told that it’s a lovely dog, won’t do anything, its just excited, infuriates me.
I was also extra cautious when running across open land out west, which was used as prime dog walking site, because you’d have dogs off leads getting spooked by me running, which led to me slowing and walking past them so as not to excite them..
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For what it's worth I don't even let Otto approach children who are family members let alone random kids in the park. What you describe is the height of irresponsible dog ownership and it should boil any parent's piss. A dog is a dog. You can't say for a certain that a dog is "fine".
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owners not controlling their dogs, apologising after the fact are the ones who are the cause of this
Yes, often this.
Stonehedge
rhb
Wonder what it is that causes dogs to react you like this? I mean, is it just bad luck that it keeps happening to you?