Ripleygirl
Experienced Member
So, need to blow off some steam here. Out walking Ollie and Ripley this evening in our local park, it is a nice big park with streams and gardens and big areas of grassland that is great for dogs to run in, it is considered a dog friendly park here and the dog owners and most people are great, but some are not evidently... Because of the gardens there are lots of squirrels and Ollie is actually quite good at catching them (he is a lurcher with possibly a bit of staffie in him), so when in the gardens we put a mesh muzzle on him so he cannot harm the squirrels. He can pant, drink and it does not bother him to have it on.
So this evening the dogs are running through the gardens and generally playing and keeping themselves to themselves. Then I hear a raised voice screaming and wonder what is wrong and there is a women standing there shouting who the dogs belong to and go up and ask what has happened and the women says nothing has happened but, pointing at Ollie, there is a banned pit bull breed off leash running around the park! I am pretty speechless already... Lurcher = Pitbull?! She then gets on the phone to report it too the police... At this point I call the dogs and walk off with them. I just did not know what to say to her... part of me wishes I had stayed to see what the police said (if they had come out) when they saw this banned breed dog..!
And besides all of this, the 'banned' dog was not going near anybody, although I do know that if he was a pitbull he would have to be on lead, muzzled and registered to be in a public place, and there are so many of these types of dogs around the world that are just put under the heading of 'dangerous dog' that are loving family dogs with responsible owners. And I hate the fact that people can just assume such things and be so ignorant! Grrrr...
So this evening the dogs are running through the gardens and generally playing and keeping themselves to themselves. Then I hear a raised voice screaming and wonder what is wrong and there is a women standing there shouting who the dogs belong to and go up and ask what has happened and the women says nothing has happened but, pointing at Ollie, there is a banned pit bull breed off leash running around the park! I am pretty speechless already... Lurcher = Pitbull?! She then gets on the phone to report it too the police... At this point I call the dogs and walk off with them. I just did not know what to say to her... part of me wishes I had stayed to see what the police said (if they had come out) when they saw this banned breed dog..!
And besides all of this, the 'banned' dog was not going near anybody, although I do know that if he was a pitbull he would have to be on lead, muzzled and registered to be in a public place, and there are so many of these types of dogs around the world that are just put under the heading of 'dangerous dog' that are loving family dogs with responsible owners. And I hate the fact that people can just assume such things and be so ignorant! Grrrr...