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I know I've posted about the problems we've had on our property, with all of the loose dogs. We have neighbours who moved in yesterday and we're already having issues.
We apparently live in a culture on this property which considers caring for a dog to be giving it food and water and "room to roam", oh, and that room to roam is what constitutes exercising a dog.
Tonight we tried to walk Caeda and the new dog wouldn't leave us alone, I chased it back to its home several times, then we're walking beside the highway (on the 20m wide grassy area), and there is the new dog staring at us from ON THE HIGHWAY! It wouldn't leave, and in the interest of keeping it from getting hit we had to go home after a whopping 15 minute walk.
We're going to talk to them tomorrow, my DH and I are too angry right now. We just started really enjoying these longer walks, and we've been coming a long way with Caeda's LLW, I've also been suspecting that Caeda is somewhat leash reactive (excited not aggressive) when other dogs are around (I think that has been confirmed tonight). This has put a major wrench in the works to say the least.
I'm almost positive we're going to be looked at like we have three heads when we ask them to do something about keeping their dog contained. The landlord may also start considering us the "problem tenants" if we push it. It seriously looks like we're going to have to drive a half an hour into town just to take Caeda for a walk. Oh, and since we're outside of the city limits....no animal control
Sorry, I really just had to rant...yes, again. I'm actually angry almost to tears right now, partially because of the problems its causing us, but also because this seems to be a pretty standard way to take care of dogs out here in general, especially on this property.
Is there anybody else on the forum here that lives in an area where walking a dog is the exception rather than the rule? How do you deal with it?
We apparently live in a culture on this property which considers caring for a dog to be giving it food and water and "room to roam", oh, and that room to roam is what constitutes exercising a dog.
Tonight we tried to walk Caeda and the new dog wouldn't leave us alone, I chased it back to its home several times, then we're walking beside the highway (on the 20m wide grassy area), and there is the new dog staring at us from ON THE HIGHWAY! It wouldn't leave, and in the interest of keeping it from getting hit we had to go home after a whopping 15 minute walk.
We're going to talk to them tomorrow, my DH and I are too angry right now. We just started really enjoying these longer walks, and we've been coming a long way with Caeda's LLW, I've also been suspecting that Caeda is somewhat leash reactive (excited not aggressive) when other dogs are around (I think that has been confirmed tonight). This has put a major wrench in the works to say the least.
I'm almost positive we're going to be looked at like we have three heads when we ask them to do something about keeping their dog contained. The landlord may also start considering us the "problem tenants" if we push it. It seriously looks like we're going to have to drive a half an hour into town just to take Caeda for a walk. Oh, and since we're outside of the city limits....no animal control
Sorry, I really just had to rant...yes, again. I'm actually angry almost to tears right now, partially because of the problems its causing us, but also because this seems to be a pretty standard way to take care of dogs out here in general, especially on this property.
Is there anybody else on the forum here that lives in an area where walking a dog is the exception rather than the rule? How do you deal with it?