Wednesday, September 15, 2010

people people everywhere

We've been trying to take advantage of the nice weather and hike with the dogs in the early evenings while we still have the light to get out after work. Normally I try to squeeze in a hike during the afternoon or early morning, but it's nice to have Bill come along. Usually once we get off the main trails we're pretty much by ourselves, not yesterday. Runners, families mountain bikers at every turn, all this was okay. The dogs do need to see all these things regularly. But it seems on nice days there's always one who makes me lose faith in the human race. We were on a main trail, all our dogs were on leash at this point, just too much going on and we saw a large GSD mix off leash. The man looked like he was about to put the dog on lead when he saw us approaching, but as we came up it looked like he was just holding the dog by collar....while it stared at our dogs....that completely inappropriate, aggressive stare. I see people do this all the time, hold dogs by collar, as a means to control, while allow the dog to lock eyes on what/whoever....much the way people do in agility to rev a dog up! and that's just what it does with these dogs. We had to pass them, luckily it was a fairly wide trail, but by the time we had to pass him the dog was in a total frenzy, and i really worried it was going to get away from the owner.

Not the hike we were hoping for, this is why I sometimes can't wait for the bitter cold of Winter.

2 comments:

The Pug Boys said...

Don't mention the cold weather. Last year there was way too much snow to shovel. Don't want to relive that nightmare.

westoverpugs said...

I really do love winter. I love almost everything about it, everything is so crisp! We did have too much snow at one time last year though, anything over 10" at once gets overwhelming.