An open letter.

[theweaselking]

Dear owner of the snausage-with-legs that attacked Piper:

Your pug has been returned in one piece because my dog, unlike yours, responds to voice control and knows that I am allowed to take food away from her.

By "food", of course, I mean "your dog, after it bit her".

Piper now gives me this look because I took her squeaky wriggling meat toy away:



Obedience and socialisation training: Just because I *can* grab your dog and chuck it like a football does not mean I should have to.

No love,
Me.

(For the record: No harm done, to either participant. Defective fuzzy rat-creature returned to apologetic owner. Piper now distracted by The Mystery Of Is There A Squirrel and once again all is right in her mayonnaise-witted little doggy world.)

Comments

[chrisrw109.livejournal.com]

My neighbors have exactly this type of loud-aggressive little dog, and are >< close to having a visit from animal control. Their little dog is aggressive, and apparently hates me to dickens. So when I'm walking up the path to my door he often goes berserk barking and hopping around behind their glass front door.

On two occasions the dog has been off-leash and charged me, barking around me in circles etc while my neighbor *finishes what she's doing* and then retrieves her dog. The second time the dog tugged on the jacket I had draped over my laptop bag.

If there is a third incident, said owner is getting a visit from animal control. If said rat bites at something I'm actually wearing, I am not guaranteed that my love of animals will over-ride my EXTREME aversion to being chewed at.

I don't understand people who have these rats instead of dogs, and those that do make the choice seem to universally buy in to that 'I don't need to train my dog, he's too small to hurt anyone' bs.

[jerril]

I used to live around the corner from a similar dog, with similar owners, and I had to walk by their house to get to the bus stop. I think it eventually ran off a little too far and got hit by a car, which is downright tragic - entirely the owners fault.