USE A LEASH!!!
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 7:22 am
Up at 5:30am spent 30 minutes chipping ice and snow off my truck so I could drive to nearby spot to let the dogs out to air. Back to motel and ate some breakfast, then back out to get the dogs out of their crates and into the motel room til we head out for the 10 o clock start time to hunt.
This blizzard has taken the starch out of my hydraulic pistons on the back lid to my camper shell so I have to hold it up with my head while getting dogs in and out. Just now I was getting my adult dog out of his crate in the back of the truck. I let him out onto the tailgate, snapped a check cord on him and let him jump down to the sidewalk running in front of the exterior entrance motel rooms. As I was shutting up the back of the truck, I felt him pull on the check cord behind me. Turned around and there was a big yellow lab with his hackles completely raised from his shoulders to his tail standing nose to nose with my dog. No leash, no owner in sight.
I snapped the checkcord as I said "Heel" to my dog and he did. I yelled "CALL YOUR DOG!!! AND USE A LEASH!!!"
Second time I have had to do this in the last 5 days. Last season I opened my motel door and loose dog immediately ran into my room!
I am sick of ignorant pheasant hunters letting their dogs run loose all around the parking lots and grounds of hunting area motels and am posting this in hopes I might educate some to stop doing it.
I cannot tell you how many times I have had loose dogs run up to mine, hackles raised looking to start some crap while their owners yell "Duke, get over here! Get back Here! Get over here! or any other combination of untrained/poorly commands.
I had an off leash pit bull charge my dog when he was a puppy while airing at a public rest area. The pit was on a full run for us, it's owner running behind yelling 10-15 different words none of them trained or heeded by the loose dog. I scooped up my pup and ran for my truck. Was overtaken by the pit before I got there. Fended him off with my leg as I spun around as the dog was lunging up for my pup while the idiot owner chased his dog all around...
Seems those with the least trained dogs are the ones most prone to claiming they don't need a leash. The world is full of "oh he's friendly" dogs looking to start some "bleep" when they growl nose to nose with a new dog they run up to ...
In September I stayed at a similar motel while hunting prairie grouse. Nothing like this ever happened. Every dog owner had control of their dogs and used a leash. Up to 20 different dogs staked out in the shade all around.
Gotta say the pheasant hunters are the worst. Public boat launch ramps at waterfowl areas are another notorious place as are parking lots are public waterfowl areas. Labs are a very popular breed and their owners are the most common offenders of out of control not on a leash dogs.
Use a Leash when in public people. Your dogs are not the only ones around.
Rant over.
This blizzard has taken the starch out of my hydraulic pistons on the back lid to my camper shell so I have to hold it up with my head while getting dogs in and out. Just now I was getting my adult dog out of his crate in the back of the truck. I let him out onto the tailgate, snapped a check cord on him and let him jump down to the sidewalk running in front of the exterior entrance motel rooms. As I was shutting up the back of the truck, I felt him pull on the check cord behind me. Turned around and there was a big yellow lab with his hackles completely raised from his shoulders to his tail standing nose to nose with my dog. No leash, no owner in sight.
I snapped the checkcord as I said "Heel" to my dog and he did. I yelled "CALL YOUR DOG!!! AND USE A LEASH!!!"
Second time I have had to do this in the last 5 days. Last season I opened my motel door and loose dog immediately ran into my room!
I am sick of ignorant pheasant hunters letting their dogs run loose all around the parking lots and grounds of hunting area motels and am posting this in hopes I might educate some to stop doing it.
I cannot tell you how many times I have had loose dogs run up to mine, hackles raised looking to start some crap while their owners yell "Duke, get over here! Get back Here! Get over here! or any other combination of untrained/poorly commands.
I had an off leash pit bull charge my dog when he was a puppy while airing at a public rest area. The pit was on a full run for us, it's owner running behind yelling 10-15 different words none of them trained or heeded by the loose dog. I scooped up my pup and ran for my truck. Was overtaken by the pit before I got there. Fended him off with my leg as I spun around as the dog was lunging up for my pup while the idiot owner chased his dog all around...
Seems those with the least trained dogs are the ones most prone to claiming they don't need a leash. The world is full of "oh he's friendly" dogs looking to start some "bleep" when they growl nose to nose with a new dog they run up to ...
In September I stayed at a similar motel while hunting prairie grouse. Nothing like this ever happened. Every dog owner had control of their dogs and used a leash. Up to 20 different dogs staked out in the shade all around.
Gotta say the pheasant hunters are the worst. Public boat launch ramps at waterfowl areas are another notorious place as are parking lots are public waterfowl areas. Labs are a very popular breed and their owners are the most common offenders of out of control not on a leash dogs.
Use a Leash when in public people. Your dogs are not the only ones around.
Rant over.