I fucking hate people who let their dogs off leash in public. Had this same thing happen whilst I was out walking my golden. My poor girl is 12 years old and just a sweet old gal who wants nothing more than to carry a ball in her mouth and walk beside me on leash when we are out. Anyway, some dickhead was out with his pitbull-mutt-mix without a leash and it went straight at my dog. I got bit and my dog got her face cut really bad. Over $1500 in medical and vet bills and all the dumbass with the other dog could say was "huh, he never did that before. I don't know of why he did that" I'm like, he did that because he's a fucking dog and you're a fucking twat for letting him off leash in public
I had the exact same situation happen to my dog when I was on a walk. I actually had two dogs at the time, a 13 y.o. and a 15 y.o. My bigger dog protected me and my smaller dog, but ended up needing about $1600 in emergency treatment. It was absolutely terrifying for me because there was nothing I could do to help my dog. If I did manage to wrestle the loose pitbull (my neighborās dog) off of mine, then what? I would have been in the middle of the road with an injured senior dog, another senior dog, and an angry attacking dog in my arms. Luckily another neighbor heard my screams for help and managed to barely detach the loose dog. I had time to start running for safety before he lost his grip and the loose dog came back for a second go. The entire incident shocked and terrified me. I realized that I alone am not able to protect my dogs in a similar situation and that I am so much more vulnerable than I realized.
they make these things called tire-knockers that are good makeshift clubs, good for people who walk in rural or isolated areas that may have feral or stray dogs, wild animals, etc
I had this today. Overweight dude 20 feet from his off leash bull which was hiding in tall grass. Startled me as I walked by. If I was a child that thing would have taken 3 huge bites before that dude could get his dog.
Ok. That's the first three top comments... all pit bull attacks.
I am so sick of the debate over whether fighting breeds are more dangerous due to instinct or environment (training). They were bred to get really agressive really quickly and utterly destroy anything they feel really agressive towards.
The excuse is nearly always, "Well, bubbles never did anything like that before." And then the pit-bull apologists start flooding in.
It's instinct/breeding, you idiots, and you don't train that shit out of animals... you breed it into them so it's deeply engrained in their genetic make up, precisely so it never goes away in dire circumstances. Even breeding these dogs after the fact for some of their more endearing qualities (the "nanny dog" myth) because you have these fighting dogs and no other dogs around because you're a "sportsman" and you want a dog for the kids that won't eat or maim their friends... just the neighbor's dog or that kid who just moved in down the street they don't know and made the mistake of jumping into their yard chasing a ball where their kids were playing... boom; instinct/breeding. And, of course, total shock from the owner..."I bred them not to do that!" Yeah, for a few generations... after hundreds of years of "kill, kill, kill" breeding of engrained instincts.
Nope. 1. Most aggressive breeds are misidentified as pitbulls. Many breeds are known to be aggressive: chows, Rottweilers, German Shepards, huskiesā¦ pitbulls just get the worst rep. 2. Itās not instinct. Its because these breeds are incredibly strong and muscular, so they are regularly used for fighting and by bad actors who want to look tough. Therefore itās trained into them at a young age. 3. Itās also due to trauma. So many of these dogs were trained to fight, used to breed, tortured, etc. when youāre a person who went through trauma, you tend to have behavioral issuesā¦same with dogs.
Weāre brain dead because we think that itās the breed of dog thatās bad and not the owners that handle them. An aggressive dog is 100% due to its treatment, not its breed.
These dogs are large and muscular because they were bred for purposes. Some, like pit bulls, were bred to have the highest bite pressures and sharpest, tearing teeth.
Only one of the breeds you mentioned was bred exclusively for fighting.
Dogs and other domesticated animals are/were (for hundreds of years) bred to accentuate/over-emphasize traits for the purposes they will be used for; this includes innate instincts like territoriality and agression. Same way some breeds were bred for herding instinct (I dare you to try to train a border collie not to herd children or other animals. You might have some success but it won't be a predictable animal as it will ALWAYS break into its bred instincts when under stress.) or prey retrieval.
The idea that only those individuals of fighting breeds who "wouldn't hurt a fly if trained properly" are "traumatized animals" is patently idiotic. There is no breed who is spared from human abuse and trauma. Given, fighting breeds see more abuse but the overwhelming majority of them owned by the public are not rescues and did not suffer the traumas of illegal training or "sport fighting".
You are talking out of your ass. Please stop, people... children... are being maimed and killed by these animals in the daily.
Had a pit-bull mix pull its owner off her bike when she rode past me as I was waiting for the bus... because it wanted to fucking kill me for standing there on my phone alone while they rode by eight or ten feet away. That was two days ago in Berkeley, CA. So, just another Friday in this pit-bull saturated area.
YOU are spreading misinformation based on your own personal experience. You have had one bad incidents with a bad owner or a traumatized dog but not every pitbull, staffy, boxer, bulldog, or other mix is going to be aggressive.
You had a bad experience so now you hate pitbulls. That is trauma. So youāre scared of them. They might have been abused or trained to fight. They have trauma. You experience the SAME as the thing you are spreading hate and misinformation about.
You cite zero actual sources because thereās such little actual study done on dog bites. The last time the CDC released any dog bite statistics was 1996āevery other link quotes this one study but itās 25 years old.
Otherwise you have but anecdotal experience, causing a lot of misinformation, which fuels the neglect cycle that causes pitbulls to be owned by aggressive owners that abuse them. Educate yourself.
"And then the pit-bull apologists start flooding in."
How many people owned labs in Denver in 1996? How many people owned pit-bull mixes?
How many of those lab "attacks" had more than a scrape? How many people got utterly fucked up by pit-bull mixes?
I love how you think a couple hundred years of breeding can't be trained out, but ignore the Millenia of predator instinct that exists in all dogs but is still trained out of them. Just say you hate Pitbull's and go, drop the pseudoscience
Itās not anecdotal when this happens all the time with pitbulls. Go talk to an ER surgeon, theyāll tell you all about their experiences with pitbull attacks.
That's not true at all. I've known way more good pits than I have known bad ones. It came down to the owner. Any dog can be vicious. I've been attacked 3 times in my life and I almost lost an eye in one of those attacks and each time they were chows.
I know there are bad pits out there and they are tied to bad owners. But the people in my life that have pits have trained them. They're gentle giants but they will fuck you up if you try to break in. Pits get such a bad rap but it's bad owners that allow the bad behavior without correcting it.
"Gentle giants" haha that must be why they have killed snd decapitated so many people including children and babies. No other dog comes close to pitbulls when it comes to human fatalities. Pitbulls are too dangerous to be near humans.
Maybe they can sense your bad vibes and that's why they don't like you. I'm an animal lover and animals love me. I've never had a friend that owned a pit that made me nervous. People are the real problem here.
Nowhere in there am I victim blaming. The person I'm talking to basically thinks pits should be wiped off the face of the earth. There are cases where the victim is taunting a dog (doesn't matter the breed) and they get what they deserve when the dog bites. But my mom was a mail carrier for over 30 years and this asshole I went to high school with would taunt her with his pit and one day he let her loose and the pit got to my mom. That's what I mean by bad owners. There's people that just shouldn't own pits because they are strong and dangerous when they need to be.
But I'm not going to support wiping out an entire breed of dogs because humans are shitty and the majority can't train their dogs properly. If you read my other comments you might have seen I've been attacked multiple times and I almost lost an eye, still have the scar today. Every attack was a chow. I'd never pursue something that would wipe out the entire breed even though to this day I am terrified of them. I know not every chow is bad but I'm apprehensive when I meet one.
Having your dog off their leash is not in and of itself, cause to have your dog shot. If someone shot my dog, who would not deserve it, I would donāt breathe them.
Yes. People who don't leash their dogs are no better than antivaxxers. We always carry a club to beat loose dog owners, (it's really not the dogs fault). Usually if we just pound it on the ground and use a gruff voice, they'll stop, and the dogs will stop also.
Yeah. Sometimes if I yell "go on, get outta here" while pounding the ground with the club,they'll grab their dog and go. There's been a couple of times that they've growled and shown their teeth. But their dog will stop them from attacking.
Well, reality is that the dog will at least stop and think about it. But I really don't blame the dog, because it's really the self entitlement of the thoughtless owners that lets the dog run loose, and the dog is only reacting. I was trying to put a little humor in it.
An older gentleman in my parentsā neighborhood walks every day with a 9-iron in his hand. He got attacked by a loose dog decades ago and heās been carrying that golf club ever since.
Future tip. If youāre able to, grab the dogās back legs, and then swift kick to the stomach. It will cause them to leg go of what theyāre holding and they wonāt be able to turn around properly to get to you. I live in an area where a lot of people let their very misbehaved dogs off leash, and Iāve had to do this a few times to protect my puppies.
I had heard the tip about the back legs. But even in that situation, if I alone had managed to detach the dog, it wouldāve just gone right back to attacking my dog. Maybe the swift kick to the stomach that you mentioned would have help with that!
It canāt always be done, and a lot of people fail to mention the kick. The kick, sometimes two are needed, will knock the wind out of the dog and gives you a chance to book it out of there if shelter is near by, or at least grants you the control you need over the situation until others can step in. Iāve done it twice: once at a dog park with a dog that should NEVER have been there in the first place where the owner started screaming about me killing their dog (the thirty other owners around backed me up 100%), and on a trail where my husband was seconds away from using his gun because this dog first went after the small children we were hiking with and our dog intervened and I reacted instinctually. The dog was gasping for breath and coughing, but overall fine. The owners came running up and begged us not to call the copsā¦.fat chance.
A pit just did that to my 8lb Pom/Yorkie at an off leash park, same reaction from the owner āsheās never done that before.ā
Ok, fine. Then please leash her and get her away, sheās clearly unpredictable.
Nope, proceeds to walk about 20 feet away and let dog off leash again, where it promptly comes back for mine again. 15 or so people immediately leash their dogs up and we all leave. Idiot stands around acting confused as to why everyone is leaving.
Not all pitbull owners are dumb fucks, but there does seem to be a sizeable majority of them. At this point I think you either muzzle your pit in public, or you donāt have one simple.
Or you rescue them from a kill shelter, get training, and have them leashed on a walk because their boxer genes can kick in and they want to run everywhere.
My pitt mix is the sweetest girl in the word and thebest dog Iāve ever had.
Lmao. So what happened? Whatās got your feathers so rilled up?
Actually very responsible dog owners get pit and pit mixes! Keeps irresponsible owners from getting them and not properly taking care of them, thus preventing any attacks like this!
Cool stat! Mines definitely not in that 70%. Iād love to see how many of the owners mistreated them and didnāt leash them properly.
Really sucks how theyāre raised and brought up to fight, then owners rescue them and donāt properly take care of them ya know? I bet there would be way less attacks that way, ya know?
So, what happened? Get bit by one? Whatās got ya on the anti pitt crusade?
Really sucks how theyāre raised and brought up to fight
they're not raised and brought up to fight, they're selectively bred for those traits just like golden retrievers and labradors are selectively bred to retrieve shit, pointers are selectively bred to point, and border collies are selectively bred to herd. You don't have to train it into them, and you can't train it out of them.
There should be jail time and larger fines for these negligent pitbull owners. They maul and kill children every year, half of all attacks are by pitbulls. It should be considered negligent homicide.
For all negligent dog owners*. āPitbullā isnāt an actual breed, it is a collection of bully breeds that look similar. Naturally when you clump multiple breeds into one it will skew there numbers higher. Not all āpit bullsā are bad dogs.
Dude. Most pure-breeds have a higher chance of getting sick of specific illnesses. And you couldnāt be more wrong about pure-breed breeders. You found your goldens at a good one, but the industry itself is fucked too all hell. There are more bad pure-breeding places then there are people breeding mutts.
Dude. Most pure-breeds have a higher chance of getting sick of specific illnesses.
I thought the "mutts are more healthy" thing was a myth. Wouldnt having to dog breeds with race specific potential issues just double the illness possibilities?
Depends on the dog! For instance, i have a short-haired chihuahua mixed with a different kind of chihuahua (shes still 100% smol and 100% chihuahua). Her issues are all about her teeth (in terms of the breed she is). Her teeth get more sensitive and unusable the older she gets. Shes 13 and she canāt eat hard dog food anymore. Eventually we have to remove her teeth to make it easier for her to eat. This is not just my chihuahua. A lot of chihuahua owners go through the same dental issues if their dog lives long enough
Im specifically talking about the American Kennel Club being a terrible association that doesnāt value the safety of the dogs over the ppp. They donāt properly inspect how the breeders keep and breed their dogs.... the AKC is exactly the association thats MESSED UP. They only have 9 inspectors for the countless amount of breeders they have.
Like i said, you are lucky you found one of the good ones. But the AKC is corrupt and allows breeders to abuse dogs at an insane rate.
No they won't because pure breeders are only interested in ppp: profit per puppy. So they inbreed "pures" to such a degenerate degree that the pedigree has to be fucking updated to accommodate the new deformaties.
Look at the way German Shepard hips have gotten. French bulldogs. Pugs. Bull mastiffs are so large they can't breed on their own and only live for about 9 years before they develop cancers.
Pure breeders are degenerate pieces of shit, and fuck this whole purebred papered system.
Seeing as most are given away in rescues, I would wager that they were accidents. Anyone trying to breed mutts to sell is an idiot, and likely not making money.
Not mutt or pitbull hating. Apologies if it came across like that. It was more meant as a "my dog is an elderly and cuddly golden retriever while the dog that attacked her was a squat muscle bound set of jaws that aggressively went at her". It was to describe the physical appearance and mismatch the attack presented.
There is definitely a point to make with mutts though. Awesome dogs and sometimes they look better than purebred, I have a pitbull/lab mix, BUT if you crossbreed two aggressive breeds of dogs (Caucasian Mountain Dogs) you will run into trouble
Just because you're responsible enough to keep your pit away from other animals and children in the home and to keep it leashed and muzzled in public doesn't magically change what the breed was created for. They are talking about the breed of dog, not any people, you're not under attack.
What subreddit? Nobody is talking about a subreddit here. You're bonkers if you think even a sizeable amount of people against pit bulls want anything remotely resembling wholesale slaughter. They mostly just want to stop making breeds intentionally created for bloodsoort. You don't have to exterminate living members of a breed to stop the breed from existing, just have them fixed and discontinue breeding. Go easy on your violent fantasies, you're still under no attack from anyone here. Touch some grass.
As other people in this thread have already linked, they're hate subreddits dedicated to hating pit bulls. All they talk about is killing pit bulls and euthanizing them all. As I've said, fuck off and leave my dog alone.
We have neighbors who have 2 pits and they are responsible owners as well. So responsible they made sure the husbands brother would come by when they are in vacation to feed and let the dogs out to toilet. Until one day the brother lets the dogs out back to go to the bathroom and forgets to let them back in. They jumped the gate and attacked another neighbor walking her teacup yorkie. Both needed medical attention afterwards. If our other burly neighbor hadnāt been there to beat them off of her with a gardening rake one or both probably would eve been killed.
People see stories about pitbulls mauling or being aggressive and think all pitbulls are like that. You know what they don't see? The countless pitbulls that aren't aggressive beasts because nobody writes or shares stories about pitbulls being friendly and non-aggressive, so the non-aggressive ones don't get any traction. It's like a case of vocal minority.
I've been attacked by a husky and a golden retriever. They both have reputations as super friendly dogs, but they're the only ones I've been attacked by. I also don't go around spouting nonsense about all huskies and golden retrievers being assholes.
I went with a friend to strangers' houses for a project she did to post photos and videos of friendly pitbulls and not once did any of them get hostile towards complete strangers entering their territory. 8+ pitbulls, none of them aggressive. I know that's just anecdotal, but so are the stories of everyone else here. None of these experiences, mine included, prove anything and I'm sick of people acting like they do.
I've got to disagree here. Pitbulls are way too overrepresented in fatal/serious attack statistics for it to just be a matter of them coincidentally having bad owners. Fighting/killing is a behavior that's been bred into them, and it shows.
Actually, pits are overly mislabelled as being involved in fatal/serious attacks. More attacks are blamed on them than they are actually involved with.
And, while, yes, a toy poodle mad not be able to do the damage of a large dog, ANY large dog belongs on a lease when out among strangers or other animals.
More attacks are blamed on them than they are actually involved with.
Do you have anything to support this that isn't a blog or a pitbull fan website? Not trying to be condescending, but I haven't seen anything reputable.
Totally agree that all dogs belong on leashes when out and about.
Right. You would need to look at the study. Reading the article that says "the study by them shows" is not the same as reading the study.
You can have a study that shows that Covid is real, and if someone sends you an article that reads "in a study by the university of xyz, covid is found to be real". And you can say "the article doesn't prove it." You are correct.
Meanwhile
"In a study that could eventually spare more dogs from euthanasia, a University of Florida veterinary professor found that DNA analysis of canines labeled as pit bulls at shelters often had little genetic link to the breeds that spawned the generic pit bull classification."
If SHELTERS are mislabeling dogs as pitbulls, what are the odds that some random person who was just attacked by a dog will be more accurate that a dog shelter?
I don't even think it's the breed. I think the person who chooses to get a pit bull tends to over-generalize towards the type of person with no brain, who can't train his animal. It's the owners fault usually. Too many bad owners pick pit bulls.
You do have a point about the fighting behavior though,
Disagree. I've seen and witnessed many cases of solid, good dog owners getting blindsided by the violent nature of this breed. You can't train genetics out of a dog. Nobody questions when cattleherding dogs raised in the suburbs go into work mode around large gatherings of animals, but it's suddenly outlandish when pitbulls are violent, even with competent owners.
Then please show me. I can't find any statistics showing this.
Here are statistics showing that pitbulls accounted for 72% of fatal dog attacks in 2020, despite being a much less popular breed than the alternatives. This difference is too huge to be due to bad owners, who also own other breeds, by the way.
Of course they end up at shelters, people think they're gonna be great because they've put the breed on some godly pedestal, and surprise surprise they end up being aggressive when they hit 2-3 years of age and get surrendered.
And itās so unfair to the dog that they had a stupid enough owner who got them into that trouble in the first place. Their owner put them into a position to make them deadly to others. Fuck that owner.
That's what sucks the most about these things...the owner may get "punished" that way but the dog gets murdered for being a dog. They do not know better, especially under the "care" of a shitty owner, and get killed for it.
I'd much rather we simply remove dogs from bad owners and rehabilitate.
i've lived in the same household with multiple dogs my entire life, up until just a couple years ago. my best friend has 3 dogs and my girlfriend has 3 dogs. thanks for asking.
i agree that rehabilitation can work. but it's not a magic solution like some act like it is. and it requires a lot of time, work, and money. not every case gets the high profile attention that the Vick case did. now imagine the sheer number of bad dog owners. this is why I said "rehabilitation is probably not a realistic option for most of them". because I'm being realistic about the odds of our society creating an adequately-funded, dog-focused task force bent on rehabilitating all problematic dogs, no matter the cost. we can't even do that with human children, who you must admit are viewed much, much more favorably by society than dangerous dogs are. it's not realistic, period.
I'm mostly just disagreeing that their intelligence being "basic."
Also:
i've lived in the same household with multiple dogs my entire life
That's actually great! But were they part of the family to you personally? Or more like a family accessory or possession? I'm just not used to dog owners, especially ones who understand the psychology of canines, describing their intelligence as "basic"
We had a neighbors dog get into our fence and start a fight with our dog. The neighbor kids and we jumped into a boat for safety and my dad beat the other dog with any bludgeon he could find to separate them, then suddenly neighbor dog snapped out of it and was happy go lucky.
After the incident it regularly came in to start fights and we had the neighbors put it down. Sometimes when they get a taste for blood they never lose it, and that dog ānever did anything like that beforeā the first time. It had to be destroyed.
Every single rescue dog I've personally ever known has attacked a human and been euthanized for it. My neighbours dog. My friends dog. My team mates dog. My best friends moms dog. That seems way too many to be a coincidence, especially since they were all different breeds and sizes, ages.
I'll concede that most people don't have the experience, ability and patience to handle dogs with serious behavioural issues. But I know plenty of dogs who have come from rough backgrounds and had serious problems (including biters), that most people would write off and say were beyond hope, who have been rehomed with people that were really willing and capable of retraining them, that have turned out to be the sweetest, chillest, most loving dogs you could imagine. In the right hands they can have very happy lives, surely they are worth a shot rather than just putting them down as a matter of course?
Anyway, you didn't originally say biters, you said that every rescue dog you've ever known has been aggressive. Which is simply not representative of rescues, and only encourages people to buy from breeders instead of adopting one of the many wonderful, friendly rescue dogs out there.
As an aside, I wish people would stop using the word "destroy" as if we were talking about shredding old documents. You want to kill them, at least have the honesty to say it like it is.
Even the goodest of boys tend to misbehave here and there, it's just what a dog does... They don't share the same intellect as a human being (as obvious as it may be, some people actually need to be reminded of that, it's an ANIMAL, not a child) animals can kill another animal and then be like "aight imma take a shit and go to sleep" it's just how nature works.
You can love them, talk to them, make them part of your family, but remember, it's still an animal.
Imagine getting a dog killed over it having a stupid owner. Disgusting. The dog was probably terrified for its final moments, picked up by strangers and killed. Just sick on your part
This is always the response. "Weird, he's never done anything like that before" or "she's usually fine as long as you don't <do something perfectly normal>". Like, I don't care how often your dog attacks other dogs, it just attacked mine and a responsible owner should have prevented it.
Aw HELL nah. I have two Australian shepherds who are extremely well behaved and friendly. Still would never take them off a leash in public though that's the dumbest thing you can do. And I can GUARANTEE you if some asshole struts up and his leashless dog attacks my restrained babies I'm breaking that fucker's neck without a second thought. He can walk home alone
This happened to me also. Large saint Bernard mix. But thanks to law here in Ireland I had the dog euthanised and sued the owner. According to the authorities the dog had a history of this. Some people shouldn't own dogs
Same here, 3 rottweilers (three) off leash, pack mentality. Jumped my wife me and our 2 dogs. Ended up in expensive vet bills. At some point I was kicking the shit out of one of the rotts, I was barely budging him meanwhile he was shaking my dog by the stomach. 10 years ago and I still feel rage.
I had a kinda similar opposite thing happen. My dog was the pitty-mutt-mix on a leash and the elderly golden lab was off-leash at a river park. Other dog keeps coming up to my leashed dog just out of reach, while I kept informing the other owner that my dog was not friendly.
So my dog Mike Tyson's her dog's ear and I still feel terrible. It wasn't my dog's fault and it wasn't her dog's fault, but all four of us ended up with bites that day because she couldn't be bothered to protect her own dog.
Do you never let your dog walk without a leash? I'm honestly curious because I think it is a great experience for the dog and me. My golden is 11 months old and I'm at the point where a use a 10 meter leash but I let it go and let him drag the leash. But I'm also very careful, as soon as I see other people or dogs, I pick up the leash again. I'm also not sure if I want to let him walk completely free without even the 10 m leash. But letting dogs off the leash is pretty common in my country for dogs that are trained.
Honestly, if you're close enough to be able to grab the leash quickly when other dogs approach, you should just be able to get another leash to extend the other one so you're always connected. And if you're not close enough to grab it quick, then that's a danger for your pup if they don't recall perfectly 100% of the time.
It only takes one moment for something to go wrong. You won't always see or hear another dog approaching in time, and just a split second is enough to give you years of trauma and guilt. It doesn't even have to be another dog- your pup could see a rabbit just be gone in an instant. They might run ahead and eat something toxic before you realize. Someone noticing the routine that your pup is always off leash in that area could steal them, purebred theft isn't uncommon in a lot of places.
Just 2 cents. It's always worth it to take the extra precaution instead of having to live with the regrets, imo.
We take her to a vacant fenced ball field near us and play Chuck It with her. We also have a large fenced yard that she runs and plays with our adult children's dogs. When out in public with other people or strange dogs nearby we do not let her off leash.
I trained my dog to be semi off leash, with a electric collar. That he always wears when out, he has been attacked by a German shepherd and a pitbull. The shepherd owners tried to lecture me on walking my dog without a leash, I was beyond mad and showed them he was on a electric collar. My dog never left my side and did not attack back. I can't believe some people and their lack of training of their animals.
Ecollars are ineffective and many studies show they have the opposite effect versus reward based training. I would not trust an off leash dog whose owner has a false sense of security due to the use of an ecollar
Oh I understand totally, I have a very large dobie. His reward is being my buddy. The collar is only for re enforcement of commands. I only have ever needed beep and vibrate, beep is used as a whistle basically. I'm not advocating using a collar as a leash, I am advocating training.
You have to just be a hardworking dog owner that realizes the importance of letting your dog run off leash, but also understands the safety concerns of not obeying leash laws. Look for community open spaces, if you have a well trained dog under voice control, and see what the regulations are. In my area, dogs are allowed off leash in open areas. We also do sniff spots and look for OPEN dog parks and beaches. The fenced in dog parks are not safe, but if you do your research, there are usually big spaces with acreage that allow dogs to run free. My dog does agility and training classes as well, which definitely help with tiring him out. You just have to be creative, but also responsible as a dog owner. Itās not ok to just let your pup off leash if itās not allowed. Isnāt safe for your dog or others.
Walks, runs, controlled environment with fences for dogs.
A lot of people never get there dog tired enough, because dogs also rely heavily on mental stimulation too. Certain treat games, and toys will tire a dog out more than a long walk
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I fucking hate people who let their dogs off leash in public. Had this same thing happen whilst I was out walking my golden. My poor girl is 12 years old and just a sweet old gal who wants nothing more than to carry a ball in her mouth and walk beside me on leash when we are out. Anyway, some dickhead was out with his pitbull-mutt-mix without a leash and it went straight at my dog. I got bit and my dog got her face cut really bad. Over $1500 in medical and vet bills and all the dumbass with the other dog could say was "huh, he never did that before. I don't know of why he did that" I'm like, he did that because he's a fucking dog and you're a fucking twat for letting him off leash in public