I want to get a dog but I have to work, how does everyone on broadway market do it ?

Such elegant creatures

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But honestly the best!

Took this dude to the vet this morning. £100 later and he’s got some antibiotics and anti inflammatories for an infected arse gland.
Currently installed under the kitchen table, feeing a bit sorry for himself. Absolute star at the vets, though. I think he just loves the attention.

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Been a tumultuous week or two in Benny towers.

My mum went away for all of last week camping with my uncle and I was looking after the pup on my own at my mums place.

i've covered it before but my mums flat is on one corner of her building on the ground floor and on the far opposite corner is a very rough around the edges couple with a gigantic english mastiff called hugo (and also a new 8-mo old bitch mastiff puppy as well which is also already huge).

well Hugo took a dislike to our Benny existing within what he sees as his home turf and went for him and pinned him while benny screamed (literally) until i could separate them when benny was about 4-5 months old. since then benny goes into super fear mode when he crosses hugo and barks incessantly in a "stay the fuck away from me" way, which then makes hugo go for him again, and we're up to about 6 run ins now where hugo has charged us down and i've had to lift benny above my head to keep him out of reach (while benny simultaneously covers both of us in excretions from his anal glands because he is completely terrified).

the main issue is hugo has never once been on a lead so while I'm in total control of benny, hugo is free to steamroll at us if the owner cant grab his collar in time (which they never can) and now their new puppy has learned the same behaviour from hugo so now both of them charge at us and the owner is physically incapable of grabbing both. and hugo is even more aggressive trying to defend the puppy

We try our best to avoid them and have to look both ways when opening the building entrance door as they like to sit out front of their living room window and have their dogs run around but it's also right beside the front door and my mums disabled parking spot so we've taken to passing benny out of the bedroom window around the corner once we've checked they're not there.

so anyways it's midnight last tuesday and they never take hugo out past 10pm so I'm not as on guard, I go to the door and look in the direction of their flat as I push the automated door button so it swings open just as they arrive at the door from the opposite direction, the puppy lunges at benny and I yank him backwards by his harness/lead into the hallway and hugo fucking shoulder checks me so hard I'm knocked backwards out of my slippers, luckily his momentum carries him past benny but I have to hoist benny up by his harness and again covered in anal juice and eventually the owner kicks hugo away from us as he's about to jump up at me.

the guy tries to apologise but i literally stink of fear & fish oil and benny is barking in staccato as he's freaking out. I take him back in and shower us both and put on a load of laundry before I can take him out to actually pee and he's so worried about looking behind him he wont piss until we're 2 streets away. he then insists I pick him up when we get home and wont let me put him down for about 45 minutes, we eventually get to bed but he literally climbs into the gap between my legs on top of the covers and presses himself into me as hard as possible, I shift him into a position I can actually sleep in and he spends entire night pressed up against me (usually he fucks off into the hall when I fall asleep)

the same night a window at their end of the hall is broken in the early hours of the morning (by one of their guests off their face no doubt) and I'm talking to the building gossip the next morning when i pass him on the way to the park, the neighbours drive past and pull up and apologise profusely and swear blindly the dogs will be on leads at all times now (this is not the first time this promise has been made) but i think with the window being broken a complaint might get them kicked out of the building so they're actually worried about us reporting it now.

having dogs in the building is a bit precarious as the housing assoc. changed the rules over lockdown so even if we kept benny at ours he wouldnt be allowed to visit and that would wreck my mums already fragile mental health as he's been a very big help for her since he arrived.

benny continues to be a super clinger until my mum gets back and he perks up with 2 of us around. then my mum takes him to the park this monday just gone.

he's running around with a group of dogs he plays with a lot when my mum takes him there as well as a tiny little whippet they'd not seen before. they're all having a ball then a woman with a massive dog turns up (no idea what breed but labrador kind of look my mum reckons) and the owner says to my mum and the other owners "can you just stand to the side I'm worried he might knock you over, he's had me on crutches before" they all move to the side of the park and the woman is telling them about how the neighbours have it in for the dog as it keeps digging under the fence and has got out over the fence 3 times. one of the dogs drops a ball at my mums feet so she throws it and all the little dogs go after it, but something in the big dog flips a switch and he charges down the young whippet and grabs it by the throat and is shaking it around and trying to pin it to the floor. the whippets owner dives in and gets bitten on the hand, the big dogs owner is hitting it with it's ball thrower stick and she dives on its back. the whippet gets a gash in its neck and it has one of those 3" wide leather collars which gets shredded but probably saved its life.

my mum said benny just went into full ptsd, she managed to get him on lead and away from the fight but he was apparently doing the most sorrowful howl and my mum couldnt stop him and it spread from him to all the other dogs in the park and then all the dogs within about 3 streets as it was echoing around the whole place. my mum is trying to get more distance from the other dogs so as to not make the situation worse and steps back into a hole falling over backwards hitting her head and hurting her wrist (thankfully neither were too bad). apparently after all this the big dogs owner pulls out a restraint with a MUZZLE from her bag because apparently it was already a thing the dog needed.

the takeaway from all this, why the fuck must people insist on letting their dangerous dogs run amok while sensible owners are forced into completely unavoidable situations dealing with their bullshit

and while all this is going on poor benny had picked up some kind of insect bite/allergic/stress reaction at the start of the week and had been licking/gnawing at it, so the stress and everything meant he ends up with a really sore patch on his front paw.

vets gave us some steroid/anti-biotic cream and he's had to wear the cone of shame for 2 days

he is currently one unhappy pooch :(

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Fuck me, that sucks. Hope Benny and your ma are both better soon.

This is obviously awful and sooo shitty. Yours and your mums experience is clearly among the worst kind, I think most of us here dog owners have had similar. It’s just terrible for you. At least, and it’s not much comfort, that they were apologetic.

There’s a part of me that wishes that owners of aggressive out of control dogs would meet other owners of aggressive out of control dogs and achieve some kind of balance or parity.

My dog has been attacked twice on separate occasions by German shepherds, which has left us both with some kind of dog-breed prejudice. We met a well behaved trained one the other day, my dog wouldn’t go near it unti we saw it was on a lead.

A few weeks before that we met an owner with two GSD coming toward us on very narrow country path, one was snarling and lunging but on a lead, and he was tucked right in the hedge and hanging on. the other one seemed “alert” but not aggressive as such, my dog was frozen & wary way behind, I walked forward and asked the bloke can we can pass? has he got firm control, yeah yeah he says, this one is fine, anyway, we walked past and yep, the “nice” one lunged and went for my dog, she just ran off thankfully without injury. I said For fuck sake and made the wft? Gesture ultimately to his back, as he strode off.

That's all so horrible, absolute horror story all round! Poor lad. Hope your mum and Benny are alright.

Wow, horrible situation, so sorry for you both

Poor Benny, those encounters with Hugo sound terrible. Before I started reading the stories on here, I had no idea there was so much conflict between dogs in parks and other places (but I have very little experience with dogs).

I would have never thought so.

poor dog :(

if they'd just kept hugo on a lead when out the house no attack would have happened when benny was a pup and chances are he would have gotten used to his presence and it would literally not even be an issue.

but they are lazy and because hugo is laid back with humans (though he's also shown aggression to an upstairs neighbours son who has some really serious health issues in the past and apparently he was on a lead for 2 days before they stopped using it) i think they enjoy walking him off lead in a similar way some people insist on riding no handed like people will be secretly impressed by it, as they keep him off all the way round the block to the nearest park. coincidentally my mums friend lives opposite the park and hugo is well "known" to the dog owners there too as is the new puppy.

the upstairs neighbour actually reported the attack on benny and the broken window as he lives 2 floors above them so has a lot of issues with them playing music at 3am with the windows open below his bedrooms and other anti-social stuff. I think they may not be long for this building (hopefully).

Hey dog thread, meet Daisy, our nearly 2 year old lurcher alsation cross. We rehomed her around 2 months ago from a family who couldn't cope and are absolutely utterly smitten. She's a little reactive to other dogs (I think excited - rather than aggressive) and very reactive to cats but we're putting time into some training and making progress.

I've been working my way through the thread - some great tips, stories and pics. Couldn't wait til I got to the end to share.

That’s a good looking dog!

Awesome!

@HatBeard sorry to hear about your experiences, this makes me so angry, yet it’s so familiar

Reggie’s unimpressed with me checking out other dogs

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Now that I've unforgotten your IRL persona, if you want a dog to socialise with over a beer near Levy, then Scotty loves other dogs, especially anything a bit lab and is excited rather than aggressive too.

What a cutie!

<3 thank you! She's taking the compliments very graciously.
@snottyotter sounds perfect, let's do it

She’s lovely! I’m a little biased with GSD crosses though :-D

So much to catch up on this thread. @ HB- that’s fucking horrible. I remember Rudy getting mauled one time and it was just devastating and his injuries were very mild comparatively.

At Yoshy that dog is handsome for sure.

Our wee lad had a rough start with us- probably picked up something rank in our garden- he has a bit of a slug fixation.

But poops are normalising now post vet visit for lungworm stuff and he’s still playful so that’s grand.

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New camera so took a photo of my favourite pain.

We had a guest dog to stay for the weekend, Phoebe’s mate Teddy the Schnauzer.

He was pretty good apart from his ears being for decoration only most of the time and not wanting to sleep shut out in the kitchen with Phoebe, resulting with me sleeping on the sofa, him sleeping under the sofa and Pheebs sleeping on the sofa with me

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