The Complaining and Bitching Thread

It used to be. I haven't used a fire for almost two years, but when I did there was a Tapatalk app in the Amazon store.

 

It's funny how nobody ever gave a shit how qualified cabinet members were until half of them were women. I guess in some peoples' minds "has a dick" is an essential qualification.

 

Making decisions is hard. Waffles or breakfast sandwiches?

 

It doesn't work well with anyone.

 

She should at least put out or buy you some chocolates.

 

Yea it's a participatory award. Everyone gets one.

 

Irresponsible/inconsiderate dog owners irritate me, and when they are irresponsible and inconsiderate with large dogs it can make it dangerous.

I just took Stanley for a walk around the neighborhood. Typical suburbia with 1/3 acre lots, mostly fenced back yards, etc. There is one walking path alongside a green space and a park that runs along the back property line of a street of houses. Most of the dog owners along it are considerate. By that I mean that they either keep their fences up, or dogs on leashes. If they see someone (with or without a dog) go walking by, and their dog goes nuts barking in the house from seeing it, they at least wait until the people are down a house or two before letting the dog out to race to the fence.

There is one exception, who I might've posted about before. It's the end house, so it not only borders the green space, but also a small park with swings and slides for small kids. There is a large Goldendoodle or the like that lives there. He's about as tall as Stanley, but probably only 60-70lbs. He goes nuts any time anyone walks by, or kids play in the park, racing to the fence and snarling. The owner will sit in the yard 10' away, turn his back to it, and not say a word. If you are walking along the path, he will purposefully let his dog out to race to the fence while you are right there. The fence is like this:

There is enough space for his dog to almost get his whole head through, and Stanley could get his muzzle through. So enough to get some biting going. Stanley is pretty chill in general, even around other dogs. He doesn't react to dogs that race to the fence other than to have his tail and hair on his back stand up. He just otherwise keeps walking. The other dogs along that path that occasionally are out and bark (boxers, pitbulls, labs, little ankle biters) he ignores. But this dog he wants at. It's the only one I have to tug on his leash to keep him from going to the fence to confront. Today we get to this property, the guy sees us out the sliding door, and lets the dog out. He immediately shuts the door and stands back in the shadows. I almost lost it and let Stanley to the fence. I know he would've torn the other dogs snout and head up. But I didn't. Then I stood in the park right next to the house (letting little kids pet Stanley because half the neighborhood knows him) and debated on going up to the door and asking them for the slightest bit of consideration for the neighborhood. I know from conversations with several neighbors that they do this to everyone with a dog. It's not just me, or Stanley. But I decided that, in the mood I was in, nothing good could happen from it. So we walked down the street and continued our exercise.

Then I get almost home. 2-3 doors down and across the street lives a St. Bernard. Who just happened to be loose in the back yard, which doesn't have a fence, with no one in sight. She came galloping at us, and Stanley wasn't sure if she was going to be friendly or not. Neither did I. I'm walking him out into the street and making sure she has a collar on (broken up a few dog fights by snagging both collars, actually broke an Akita's collar once tossing him through the air by it, that's a story for another day), and she does. She was this weird combination of being both protective of her yard and wanting to make acquaintances. I'm keeping her on one side of me and Stanley on the other, all the way back to our house. She followed me all the way up to our porch, at which point I threw Stanley inside and stayed outside and directed her back to her own yard. The St. Bernard thing was an accident I'm sure, it's the first time I've seen them let it out off the leash. But that could've gotten ugly fast. Especially if someone was walking a more aggressive dog than Stanley.




Moral of the story? I guess be responsible and be polite. In all honesty, it's just better for me to post this and vent than go off on some idiot, or let Stanley maul their dog.