...don't "walk" them from the seat of your truck, car, dune buggy or atv by letting them run loose in the middle of the road. Rural road, paved or not, control your damn dogs. "There's hardly any traffic" is not an excuse for when I have to avoid your damn dogs in the middle of the road in a 50MPH zone. You are required to use a leash in this county, yes, even in the forest. Don't glare at me when I pass and leave you in a cloud of dust, you are the one stopped with your windows down calling to your dogs.

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind killing your dogs. I just don't want Phydough Jr. cleaning your Fluffies guts out from under my truck in my yard. It's just not sanitary.

And don't let your damn dog shit in my yard, either.

I made a delivery to a house last week and didn't see their Dachsund was tooling around in the street until I'd gotten out of my truck. When I let the owner know her dog was in the street--they have no fence--she said it was okay for it to be out there. Cool, I guess that's my permission to run it over?

Just pointing out that there are two sides to this coin.

Some people live in places where it's not just OK to let their dogs roam, it's fully appropriate for them to do that.

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Originally posted by SapperSteel:
Just pointing out that there are two sides to this coin.

Some people live in places where it's not just OK to let their dogs roam, it's fully appropriate for them to do that.

This is not on the Rez where the dogs outnumber the humans. It is in a rural setting where county leash laws are in place. Not to mention in the middle of a public thoroughfare.

I break for squirrels , cats, and dogs.
Its just animals that don't know better.
The thing that pisses me of is the stupid getto kids and that damn basket ball in the street.

One of the reasons I have dogs is so they can walk me each day, several times.

An old guy up the street from me told me his dog doesnt like being on a leash after it charged out into the street at me.

Ironically his wife ran the dog over in the driveway.

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Originally posted by SapperSteel:
Just pointing out that there are two sides to this coin.

Some people live in places where it's not just OK to let their dogs roam, it's fully appropriate for them to do that.

Ok, like where? I'm drawing a blank. Around here, dogs that roam the countryside can get in trouble chasing livestock and/or deer. There are lots of ranchers who will shoot them for that. But, maybe that's not the environ you are thinking of.

A loose dog in my area, if friendly, will be brought in and it's owner sought.

An unfriendly one or one that chases horses, chickens, goats, cows or other livestock will be shot. Quickly.

Back when I was a clerk/General flunkie/delivery boy for a independent pharmacy loose dogs were a pain in the butt, either I had to try and not step on them or I had to try and not get bit by them. Many times I punted a little ankle biter across the yard.
When I graduated from pharmacy school my boss’s son took over the delivery duties, at one house the lady had several dogs that she always said she had locked up but she never did, Tommy went to make a delivery and all those dogs were loose in her yard so he grabbed a piece of pipe out of the bed of the truck to shoo the dogs with, now Tommy was a rather robust young lad who shooed rather hard, next time he went for a delivery the dogs were absent.

Dogs can run off leash and do whatever the hell the want to do on their owners PRIVATE PROPERTY.

Roads are for vehicles, not people or animals. No one should intentionally hit a lost dog on a road, but getting hit is a possible outcome if your dog is off leash and running on the road.

Good advice. Been working extra hard to train the pup to sit as soon as the car door opens. It's not for me but for that one time my wife takes her and stupidly doesn't pay attention. Dog is pretty good at sitting now.

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Originally posted by arfmel:
And don't let your damn dog shit in my yard, either.

Man that really pisses me off, too. Dog on leash takes a good healthy dump and owner walks off with big poochie without picking up LARGE turds..

As long as the dogs are not aggressive, I hate leash laws. I used to live in a neighborhood, where all the lots were 1-5 acres. You let the dogs out when you went to work and when you came home, they were on the porch to greet you. I'm hesitant to get a dog now because I refuse to walk behind it with a plastic bag. As Jerry Seinfeld says, if a Martian landed and saw this, whom would they assume is in charge?

I live in the woods. On a dirt road. Off a dirt road, that’s reached from another dirt road.

I used to let my dogs runs loose. They loved it. Unfortunately, after watching them walk down the road and not understand what to do when a car comes along... I decided to fence an acre or so of my property and let them “roam” inside of that.

Now I don’t worry, because I know right where the little troublemakers are. Usually