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Post by mollycoddle on Oct 22, 2022 18:48:48 GMT
What you did. She was being a bit of an ass.
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Post by smcast on Oct 22, 2022 18:54:28 GMT
I either would've shook my head no or said, " I'll worry about my dog, you worry about yours." The audacity of people blows me away.
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Post by kate on Oct 22, 2022 19:06:50 GMT
Your response was perfect. And so is your sweet doggo!
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Post by frankiegirl on Oct 22, 2022 19:12:10 GMT
"I can't hear you - can you quiet your dogs?" And I would be yelling it loudly.
What a tool.
I hate people who glare at me when we are walking our dog and their dog starts barking. And my dog just ignores them and keeps walking. Their dogs = their problem. Not mine.
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Post by Bitchy Rich on Oct 22, 2022 19:40:35 GMT
I was walking my old, slow dogs past a house where two dogs were inside barking their heads off at the window. The owner was in the front yard and I said "I'm sorry we're so slow." and he said "Don't be sorry. They're (gestured at his dogs) the assholes!"
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Post by Zee on Oct 22, 2022 21:55:54 GMT
I would have said "can you shut your fucking dogs up, mine is an old lady" and called it even.
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Post by carhoch on Oct 22, 2022 22:25:41 GMT
Her her dogs are the problem not yours and I would have no problem pointing it out to her .
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Post by Merge on Oct 22, 2022 22:30:09 GMT
I know that I would have kept walking at our current pace. What I would have said back, I'm not as sure about, since it may have depended on the volume of the dogs and my mood. If I thought I could get away with pretending I didn't hear the neighbor, then I would probably have gone with that. If I had to answer I would have probably said some variation of "This is as fast as she can go." And, like everyone else already said---if the neighbor's dogs are barking their fool heads off, that's the neighbor's issue to correct by adjusting the behavior and/or location of their dogs; not by adjusting the behavior and/or location of any and all members of the public who happen to walk by their yard. Also, your dog is so cute. I want to give her a hug--a gentle hug, that is. (But only with permission of course---I'm not one of those people who walks up to dogs they don't know and get into their faces. ) She would roll right over and ask for belly rubs if you did!
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Post by StephDRebel on Oct 22, 2022 22:45:48 GMT
I would have said "no but I can recommend a trainer for your ill behaved dogs"
I've got 0 patience left for crappy dog owners who won't train or stay in their own space.
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Post by Lexica on Oct 23, 2022 0:36:36 GMT
Have people lost all sense of empathy and patience? What the hell?! Can people seriously not deal with a few moments of something outside their comfort zone for the good of a sweet old dog enjoying her walk? Society has lost its damn mind. We no longer have our Heeler. I got tears in my eyes when I saw your photo. That’s exactly how Bob used to sit as she had the same issue with her same back leg. And the same goofy smile! Old dogs have my heart! Isn't that the sad truth! People seem to feel it is okay to be rude these days over just about anything and I just don't understand it. Common decency depicts you don't do so many things that I see happening all the time now. I really think it started when Trump took office. When I first got my little dog, I knew they had a reputation for being barking little yappers. He's a Maltipoo. I was determined not to allow it. I have him trained to both verbal and hand signals for everything he knows. When I pinch my thumb and pointer finger together, he knows that means to lower his volume of barking. I usually follow it with the verbal command, "quiet bark!" at the same time so there is no doubt. He will continue to bark, but it is a throaty muffled noise that cracks me up. I figured he still needs to express whatever it is a barking dog is expressing, but he doesn't need to do it at an annoying volume. So he can bark, just in his own throat. Whenever someone is outside or at my front door (when I had a front door) he would bark at the door and then come to find me and bark at me, as if he was telling me "Someone is here! Someone is here!" and he would wait for me to follow him to the door. I always praised him for alerting me, but then he got the quiet bark signal. I needed him to let me know things since my hearing keeps getting worse (new hearing aids will be here November 7th and I cannot tell you how anxious I am for them to arrive!!) but I don't need him to keep it up. I think if I can train a little dog breed known for being an annoying yapper, anyone else can train a big dog. And every night before bed, I give my dog a refresher on his commands, giving him his dried chicken strip treats when we do it. He has his roomies when I say it is bedtime, then once he settles down, I get the bag of chicken strips and he eagerly waits for the first command. I mix them up and sometimes do only hand signals, sometimes only verbal, and sometimes both, just to keep him alert. Sometimes when I am feeling a little feisty, I just stand and look at him without saying or doing anything. He will get confused and start to do everything he knows, waiting for a response from me. I know, that's mean! But it really makes me laugh and I don't do it very often. I just wanted to train him under many different scenarios and me being quiet was one of them. I didn't expect him to go through his repertoire though. I though he would just stare at me. I would have politely suggested she go quiet her dogs rather than push me to walk my elderly old lady faster. Were her dogs inside her house or outside in her fenced backyard? I would have felt compelled to tell her she should be training her dogs to learn when it is appropriate to bark and when to shut their barking down rather than try to police the neighborhood like she was doing. @merge, you should have named her Panda with a face like that!
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Post by peano on Oct 23, 2022 0:38:12 GMT
I guess I would have said something like “She’s 95 years old and doing the best she can”. If you’re on a public sidewalk, that woman has no right to complain—she’s being a tool and just needs to work on the barking.
Your pup looks like a sweetheart. I’m dealing with a senior dog and I don’t know about you, but watching the decline is so much harder than the sudden cancer diagnosis or organ failure.
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Post by Gennifer on Oct 23, 2022 0:42:44 GMT
My dogs bark if people walk down our street, because, frankly, it doesn’t happen that often. It drives me nuts… that my dogs bark, not that people walk downs the street, and I’m always so embarrassed. It’s my dogs that are the problem, not other people or their dogs!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2022 0:45:17 GMT
I would've waved really enthusiastically, grinned like an idiot, and called back, "Yes!" then kept on at Ellie's pace.
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Post by gizzy on Oct 23, 2022 0:58:53 GMT
I think I'd be flabbergasted that she was so rude and not have been able to think of anything to say at the time. I'd make sure to take a daily walk past her house and let my dog take her sweet ass time.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2022 1:12:30 GMT
I would’ve let my middle finger do the talking.
Don’t you dare let that cranky bitch take the joy you or your pup get from a walk…no matter how slow.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 23, 2022 1:26:22 GMT
I have an annoying dog that likes to bark his fool head off anytime anyone or anything moves past what he deems is his territory. So yeah, when he goes off like an idiot and doesn’t listen when I tell him to shut it, he loses his outside privileges and he has to go inside. Her dogs were the problem children, not yours.
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Post by refugeepea on Oct 23, 2022 2:23:32 GMT
I would have ignored her or waved flippantly like whatever.
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Post by Zee on Oct 23, 2022 2:41:54 GMT
Your dog looks like a cuddly old bear, and I have that same rug. 🥰
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Post by 950nancy on Oct 23, 2022 4:02:15 GMT
I think we get more dogs walking on our street than cars. My female will sometimes bark, but that is my problem. We also get turkeys and deer every day, so she has a lot to watch. I keep a spray bottle at the front door and it silences her.
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Post by katlady on Oct 23, 2022 6:23:26 GMT
My dog barks occasionally when people walk pass our house, especially if they have a dog. Sometimes people stop right in front of our house and talk. My dog goes crazy, and I have muttered to myself that I wish they would move down the street a bit to talk. Of course, I don’t say anything. I just try to distract my dog so he stops barking. Oh, and he is basically an indoor dog, so he is sensing them (and barking) from inside the house. But he makes a good watch dog. No one can approach our property without him barking. I would never tell anyone to walk faster or move. So rude! I like a lot of the response people here have given.
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Post by teacherlisa on Oct 23, 2022 6:47:26 GMT
Im pretty sure I would have walked my dog as slowly as I possibly could.
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Post by mikklynn on Oct 23, 2022 11:18:38 GMT
I would have been tempted to yell “no! Can you quiet your dogs down?” I also would have been tempted to give her the finger, but I never actually do that. She was totally in the wrong here. She needs to train her dogs.
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Post by Mystie on Oct 23, 2022 13:09:15 GMT
That cutie pie can walk as slow as she damn well pleases! I love her doggy smile!
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Post by paulao on Oct 23, 2022 14:04:54 GMT
I would have ignored her, mentally gave her the finger, and kept on walking. People like that are best ignored.
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Post by YooHoot on Oct 23, 2022 14:27:09 GMT
That’s a her problem, not a you problem. Beautiful pup by the way…you guys can come stroll past my house any day!
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Post by peasapie on Oct 23, 2022 15:01:53 GMT
Things like this make me realize how limited some people are in their capacity for empathy. She couldn't see past her own discomfort to even conceive of what someone else is experiencing.
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Post by greendragonlady on Oct 23, 2022 15:31:30 GMT
That’s a her problem, not a you problem. Beautiful pup by the way…you guys can come stroll past my house any day! You stole my answer!
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Post by finsup on Oct 23, 2022 17:04:51 GMT
My kid recently adopted an old dog from a place with the best name ever: Vintage Pet Rescue 🥰
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Post by Clair on Oct 23, 2022 18:28:11 GMT
I think you handled it perfectly even though she didn’t. I have a senior dog too - even though it’s hard - they love their slow walks.
She definitely should work with her dogs - especially being on a corner. She must have a lot of dogs go by.
A few years ago in my town there was a lawsuit regarding a dog owner and walking/standing in front of neighbors houses. The owner of the dog being walked would stop in front of houses where the dogs were agitated to train their dog. They would stop on the sidewalk for 15 minutes or so and taunting/using the dog behind the gate as part of the training. One day a dog lost it - jumped over a large fence and tried to attack the dog being walked. There were injuries to both dog owners - the dogs were fine. Ended up to be a very complicated and involved lawsuit. The dog walker was on public property and the resident dog was the one who got out. On the surface the owners dog was wrong but being it was being excessively taunted. I never heard the final outcome of the case.
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Post by peabay on Oct 23, 2022 20:33:47 GMT
My dog loses his shit when people walk by our house.
I understand her thoughts, but not her actions.
Lots of times I think "Ugh, could they move a little faster? He's slobbering all over my clean windows!" but never, not in a million years, would I ever ask someone to move faster.
They have every right to walk whatever speed they want on the public street. They can freaking crawl if they have to - she was rude and your response was fine.
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