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

Re: dogs should really be on leashes in public areas

[nuns.livejournal.com]

This is my experience as well.

The woman whose fifth (adorable, but frisky) little unleashed terrier ran out in front of me on the bike path, so that I nearly got creamed trying to stop in time, swore at me and told me to "grow up" when I pointed out the leash law. And while I don't look my full 37 years, I also don't look like a kid, so she wasn't responding to my physically-apparent age.

The only reason for that particular comment that I could think of, then or since, is that she thinks telling people what they can or can't do with their dogs is immature, that mature people mind their business.

Re: dogs should really be on leashes in public areas

[righteousness-1.livejournal.com]

Just run over the yapping pup. That'll put the smirk on the other side of her can-do lack of civility.

Re: dogs should really be on leashes in public areas

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

running over the dog also endangers you, like hitting a pothole can.