To Hershey's Dog-Mom

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

If you're taking your adorable chocolate lab out for a stroll on the bike-path on a lovely Sunday afternoon, please protect your dog and other people using the path and keep him on a leash.

I witnessed an almost-accident at close range as the dog ambled from one side of the path to another, forcing a bicyclist to slam on his brakes and stop hard to avoid hitting him.

He doesn't know any better, he's just a dog, doing what dogs do. You, on the other hand, should.

Comments

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

all i'm saying is that i've gone through no less than three different types on a 16 pound dog - they have all broken, tangled, not worked when i needed them to, etc. the wider belt ones pose less of a hazard of cutting but it is still there and i've seen it happen. i'm not saying my experience is everyone's, certainly, but yeah. i just personally prefer wrapping a leash around my hand and letting it out more or letting my dogs off leash when it's safe that way.

[dancingdeer.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's an impressively bad set of data points. I wonder if they make the leashes sturdier for the larger dogs.
I like the way my dog can help pull me up one of the hills in our neighborhood. I hate hills. :)

[sparkgrrl658.livejournal.com]

yeah you can see why i gave up lol!

glad you have had better luck, i think most manufacturers might indeed underestimate the strength of a small dog. anyway, after getting a second dog i would have had to have switched anyway since my dogs are really good at the whole tangling me thing x___x