Denim Blunders, Reflections and General Nonsense.

[Double 0 Soul]

^I am proficient.. I can bunny hop anything up to spaniel size 

Edited October 31, 2023 by Double 0 Soul

[MJF9]

I'm nodding along with the comments above. Vast majority of the dog owners we cross paths with in the local park cannot control their own dogs. Most speak to them in sentences as if they were human 'oh our Rover you naughty little boy chasing after that man and his son and trying to bite them, what are we going to do with you eh?'. Still amazed so many do it with no impact on Rover's behaviour and repeat... mandatory dog owner proficiency training needed!

Edited October 31, 2023 by MJF9

[Double 0 Soul]

I think lockdown played its part too.. folks who ordinarily wouldn’t have bought a dog, rich on furlough dollar went out and bought one for their soon to end life of leisure along with a peloton and a camper van.. they were socialised by folks wearing masks and now they’re left at home while their owners have gone back to work, no wonder they’re fucked up!

I think most dogs and their owners are pretty cool though.. they don’t need a license.. the folks who should have a licence are the same folks who’re least likely to get one.. who’s going to enforce the licence? the cops certainly aren’t .. and if these ‘pit bull’ owners have their dog taken away.. they’ll just get another.. it’s not like the snarling beast is a much loved family pet.

Maynards puny man-bag dog wouldn’t even be considered an hors- d’ouerve for these wild beasts!

When I went to the bank a couple of months ago, I saw 2 crackheads stood outside, skinny as fuck, rattling their ass off, no teeth with a 2week old St Bernard pup wrapped up in their coat.. what the fuck business do they have with a 3 grand dog?

Edited October 31, 2023 by Double 0 Soul

[Maynard Friedman]

Puny?! 😠 Moi? 😆

[Broark]

I've been fortunate enough to never have had any experiences like this, at our old apartment I had some choice words for a few neighbors who would walk around with their dogs off-leash which was against the rules. Our dog isn't always friendly, especially with larger off-leash dogs as she is smaller and probably felt intimidated. But I would just pick her up, yell at the owner to put their dog on a leash and walk away without incident.
But one thing that has been really ridiculous lately related to dogs is people bringing them everywhere under the guise of being a service dog.
Places such as the grocery store, nicer restaurants (inside, not on the patio) or any other business you might visit on a regular basis where a dog isn't really intended to be.
This got 1000% worse since the pandemic, and I'm tired of it. The grocery store is the one that really pisses me off.

[Double 0 Soul]

My wife's hairdresser has a pug called spud.. he's very friendly and just sits in the window.. i think his job is to lure in the customers..next door there used to be an art gallery called Helix.. the dog there would bark incessantly at anyone who walked through the door.. it closed down within a year or two, no appreciation for the arts in S11?

I quite like to see dogs sprawled out in pubs, onder the tables or in front of the fire after a long Sunday morning walk but not in a swanky restaurant.

[AlientoyWorkmachine]

@Double 0 Soul you’re more tolerant than I. I was first chased down and bitten by an off leash dog as a kid. It wasn’t a pit. It’s happened throughout my life since, thankfully I haven’t had a hospital trip - I honestly do not know how. But these things are a constant threat. And weirdly for me, it’s generally not been the pit/mixes. 
 

My two year old niece has permanent facial scarring and almost lost sight and vision because of dog bites. She was not spared a hospital trip. From an off leash dog that “never does this.” My sister was spared a hospital trip - only because she was attacked in winter with a thick coat on. For both of them, it was pit/mixes. 
 

When I am out running, esp if my son is in the stroller, and I see the dog off leash, I don’t care how nice you think your dog is, you are not meeting a happy version of ol’ Alien here. Dogs are animals. Wonderful ones and all maybe if you know them, but I don’t know your that leash dog and given the situation I trust neither the owner nor the dog now. Peak entitlement. 
 

Edited October 31, 2023 by AlientoyWorkmachine

[Broark]

29 minutes ago, Double 0 Soul said:

I quite like to see dogs sprawled out in pubs, onder the tables or in front of the fire after a long Sunday morning walk but not in a swanky restaurant.

Yeah that's totally fine in my book, usually here with the warmer weather it's out on a patio outside of a dive bar or casual restaurant.
But when your dog is taking a dump inside the grocery store next to the produce...that's where my frustration comes from.
Or if I'm going to a nice dinner and I'm greeted by a dog underneath the table next to me. 
Owners should be able to read the room and know when it's inappropriate, but that seems to have gone out the window in recent years.

A lot of businesses have started to put up signs that say if you have a service dog you need to have proper proof of accreditation.
And if you actually have a real service dog then no worries, since they're generally a lot more well behaved because of that training.

[Double 0 Soul]

Yup, if Jack Russell’s were more capable of inflicting serious injuries.. they would. I was walking to the Post Office recently, I walked around the corner almost into an old woman in her 70s coming in the opposite direction which understandably startled her.. her Jack Russell was off the lead, went nuts and stated trying to bite me.. this being one of the (lets say) earthier parts of the city.. she said ‘you little bastard’ and stared beating the shit out of it with the lead.. I had to step in and stop her!

There is a narrow cycle path near us, to one side is a wide footpath, to the other side are the woods.. the dog walkers walk on the path but their dogs much prefer walking through the woods on their long retractable leads which I can’t see that go over the cycle path.. you can imagine how much fun this is?

 

[Maynard Friedman]

Let’s clarify things for those of us in the UK. A service dog is a guide dog for the blind rather than a waiter or shop assistant I assume 🤣 

[Double 0 Soul]

... so I said to the assistant in the umbrella shop.. ‘I’m looking for something masculine and toxic’ ?

[Broark]

Don't you know, I invented the twirl!

[Duke Mantee]

When we were very little we (as a family) were visiting a friend of my mum. They had a Border Terrier that was a never trained and a bad tempered thing. My sister was about 3 or 4 and came out of the kitchen with a biscuit (for herself) and it ran over to her to get it, she pulled her hand away and it snapped at her and bit her face.

Without a word, my dad picked the dog up by the throat, took it out the room and broke its neck.

We never went back to that house.

[Double 0 Soul]

Jesus^ 

There is a foundry in Sheff next to the canal.. I still do a little bit of pattern work for them now and again.. one of the owners used to tell me that back in the 70s there was a big travelling community living on the land where Sheffield Arena and The institute for sport was built.. being warm due to the furnaces and being next to the canal.. it was the perfect environment for rats.. all industry used to shut down for ‘Sheffield works weeks’ where everyone took the same holiday weeks every year to head off to Butlins.. during this week travellers from far and wide (along with 100s of chronic gamblers) would descend on the foundry with their ratting dogs, usually terriers of one kind or the other.. folks would inspect the dogs before placing their bets. 

One bloke would bang the metal lid from a 200kg drum which would make the rats bolt and they’d release the dogs.. 1000s of rats would be piled up in front of the dog owners and counted.. 100s of pounds changed hands and they got the rats cleared free of charge... working class pastime apparently 

Edited October 31, 2023 by Double 0 Soul

[shredwin_206]

@Duke Mantee that’s exactly how I would react if a dog did something similar to my kids. 
 

[Geeman]

I recall going to the shop with my eldest kid, when he was about 2ish and still on reigns. We stepped out and from nowhere a Staffordshire Bull Terrier went straight for him 

(Staffys used to be the gangster dog of choice and for years they were demonised in the UK, which is a shame as generally they are a great family dog) 

I managed to drag him away by the reigns a millisecond before the dog clamped on him. In blind rage I sprinted across the road with the toddler over my shoulder to his Nans house a few feet away. Literally threw the kid at his Nan and grabbed the garden fork she was using. 

Intention to skewer that fucking dog to the pavement.

When his delinquent owner, who had made little effort to resolve the situation other than slouch off with his frothy mouthed dog in tow,  by now quite far down the street saw a seething skin head tearing after them holding a garden fork above his head like he was about to throw a record breaking javelin he shit his pants and sprinted off holding the dog by his collar. 

I saw the lad a few years later minus dog. He crossed the road to avoid me.

I' m a huge dog fan but believe any owner should have to undertake dog training and socialising courses to have licence to own them now that unresponsable owners and using breeds for status/intimidation has became an issue. 

No licence no dog.

[Double 0 Soul]

Even when these^ fuck-heads are trying to teach their dogs obedience they still get it wrong.. once i was driving home when we lived in the sticks.. limping along in traffic trying to get out of the city.. a kid with a staffy on a massive chain stopped at the crossing.. looked at the dog and said "sit" the dog ignored him so he shouted "SIT!!!" and stamped on it's back.. it had been bred with so much muscle mass it barely resembled a staffy so sitting can't have been very comfortable for the poor thing.

[MJF9]

There's a rip-roaring trade in breeding rare and desirable dogs in socio-economic deprived areas. A couple of litters a year of X pups at a £grand+ a pup, of undeclared income, is a popular money-spinning passtime. 

Edited October 31, 2023 by MJF9

[Double 0 Soul]

Selective breeding of animals for pets doesn't sit too well with me..(Crufts makes me fucking cringe, that woman who makes her Border Collie dance on it's hind legs while all the tweed wearing Barbara Woodhouse types clap.. should be f'kin shot) I appreciate the breeds were separated for reasons of ability but most folks who want a dog nowadays don't need a working animal they just need a companion but they're choosing it for the way it looks (like doggy eugenics) we should let our pets be instead of prostituting them.. let our doggies fall in love with who they choose, let them eat bowls of spaghetti together.. if all of our pets were crossbreeds they would be much healthier.. there would be less animal suffering, less puppy farms, less criminals stealing them, they wouldn't cost £3000 and we wouldn't have to pay vet bills to correct the pain which our meddling caused...

The pug isn't even recognised as a dog breed anymore by the kennel club because we've fucked it up so much.. i see a chap walking one nr us.. it can't breath and one of it's eyeballs is outside the socket.. obviously bred with it's skull so small it's eyes don't even fit in it's head.. well done humans!

In the interest of balance.. all cat owners are bastards too!

[MJF9]

^ meeeeoooow!

[Dr_Heech]

^^ God it's like a dog chewing a bone.

 

[Double 0 Soul]

27 minutes ago, Dr_Heech said:

^^ God it's like a dog chewing a bone.

 

I was just trying to liven the place up by stimulating a bit of conversation doc.. it’s like a mortuary around here.. but it it’s not welcomed,  I’ll not bother wasting my time.

[Maynard Friedman]

It is welcome Neal, I just think you’re barking up the wrong tree 🐶

[Double 0 Soul]

..and peanut buttering the wrong toast? .. oh well, don’t say I never tried when we’ve reverted back to one post /fortnight.

[MJF9]

Awww OO... keep 'em coming... your posts are a treat 

[MJF9]

It's good that you're taking the lead mate 🐶

[Dr_Heech]

@Double 0 Soul come on Neal, l was only kidding. Didn't pick you out to be a sensitive type, especially after the cat comment. Maybe l should remember to put in the appropriate emoji eh? 😜

Anyway l work in an environment constantly surrounded by dog walkers and find myself in silent agreement what most have said here. I don't have anything else to add other than the fact that l like animals but not necessarily the person who is attached to the other end of the lead.

 

Edited November 1, 2023 by Dr_Heech
To add an emoji

[Maynard Friedman]

8 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

In the interest of balance.. all cat owners are bastards too!

I agree with this (especially as I am one) and am thinking of having ACOAB tattooed across my knuckles.

[Geeman]

Cats themselves are bastards.

[Double 0 Soul]

2 hours ago, Dr_Heech said:

@Double 0 Soul come on Neal, l was only kidding. Didn't pick you out to be a sensitive type, especially after the cat comment. Maybe l should remember to put in the appropriate emoji eh? 😜

Anyway l work in an environment constantly surrounded by dog walkers and find myself in silent agreement what most have said here. I don't have anything else to add other than the fact that l like animals but not necessarily the person who is attached to the other end of the lead.

 

I’m very highly strung y’know! 

Don’t worry about it Chaz.. you can’t post on a public forum with any kind of frequency without folks getting the wrong end of the stick every once in a while..

I’ve done it many, many times..  I remember offending iron horse by quoting him a verse from The Rite Stuff by New Kids On The Block.. I though affectionately, I couldn’t believe it when he misinterpreted my intention, but y’know. we live, we learn

Edited November 1, 2023 by Double 0 Soul