Am I the d*ckhead?

The correct thing to do.

If it was me, I’d of done the same. If it was the scenario where I was walking my dog and his dog bit mine then I would aim to do more than just kick it.

If it’s dangerous to a jogger, it’s dangerous to a kid, it’s dangerous to a dog. It’s dangerous.

 

Quite right to tell the bloke off. As an aside if the dog broke the skin do you need a tetanus jab?

 

You were absolutely correct.

 

Dunt let ar goalie go near it! He'd ev ayf a dozen attempts and still not connect.

 

I would imagine anyone who gets bitten by a dog would kick it. I would. The owner is a toss pot and your reaction to him was proportionate.

 

Did right booting the dog. You've got to look after yourself.

 

What’s a Duckhead?

 

A dog that was off the lead and bit someone is out of control (or makes someone worried that they could be bitten).

This is illegal, and the owner could face an unlimited fine, 6 months in prison and even be banned from keeping dogs again. (very unlikely with a little dog but larger dogs can do a lot of damage).

So, in this case I'd argue that you weren't a ********. Unless you punted the dog for a conversion on the rugby posts.

 

Well a small dog did land in my garden a couple of days ago. Bit of a mystery of how.

 

Where you went wrong in the first place in my honest opinion was down to your hasty reaction of just kicking out like you did, with no regards for the future consequences

What you should have done, with respect
was you should have picked up the little fur ball, then held it really tight with both hands to you chest, whilst at the same time looking around vigorously before bouncing the little fur ball on the ground 3 times, followed by throwing it up
In to the air,
Thus allowing gravitational pull to take place, which would inturn see, the little fur ball, head back to earth
whereupon your right leg would swing forward to meet it with your foot and connect accordingly thus
launching it 3/4s of the way down the centre of the park, whilst praying that hopefully some hairy arsed big bloke would rise off the ground like a salmon (heading back up stream to spawn ) before chesting it down under total control before turning to quote a former Barnsley Chronical reporter on a Half crown ( too big to turn on a sixpence) and kicking it goal bound to an imaginary goal
On which the said hairy arsed bloke turns back in your direction giving you a high five, celebrating your goal assist
You then would have been free to get into the dog owners face and demonstrate verbally in a manner befitting a player who feels he's been wronged by his manager in the first place.

 

Thanks all, great to get the wisdom of the forum on this.

I took as strong a kick as I could at the dog, he was fast though, so only made glancing contact. Thankfully no broken skin, just a bit of bruising.

 

Should have just dropkicked the owner

 

You did right. A lot would have done more. I'm a fellow runner and you can't run in peace for them.

Sorry to hijack the thread, but I wouldn't mind some dog-related BBS advice actually.

My next door neighbours have a dog that barks constantly from the moment they leave the house until they get back. So when they go out to work etc, it's constant. It doesn't take a breath. While it isn't the loudest bark ever, I can here it plain as day in my house, and when I'm trying to work from home (or on a Saturday morning when I'm trying to have a lay in), it just drives me up the wall.

I told one of them about it politely a couple of months ago. They weren't impressed. They sort of fobbed me off and then nothing changed.. They're the type of neighbours who think they own the street. And they're the type who are very confrontational and can be aggressive. Put simply, they don't care about anyone else. The bloke is a big guy, and his Mrs has a serious attitude.

Thing is, they've bought another dog, so now they have two. And this dog barks exactly the same and is even louder. It is unbearable. Now, I'm a young lad and I live with my fiance. We live a quiet life, not bothering anyone. We aren't confrontational or anything, but I know if I raise it again, we'll have fireworks and I don't want to get punched in the face. I've thought about reporting it to the council, but it'll be obvious to them where the report has come from and I can see them banging my front door down or something.

But I can't live like this. And I can't afford to move.

What would you do?

 

I'm in a not too dissimilar position, though the neighbour is decent and we get on. Not that the points we've made are acted upon or behaviours altered. We've found that they (similar to you, she had one yappy irritant then a year later decided to get a second yappier irritant) yap when she goes out, and worst they howl. When her car pulls up they go even more mental, they hear the car door shut and instantly go quiet. Which makes it harder to convince her hour upon hour of yapping and howling is a bit unreasonable.

Our choice will be to move, as and when we find an area that suits though we've made little progress on that front. Sadly, I think the only solution for you will be that too.

As an aside, my mum had a really bad situation with a former neighbour who had six dogs, never walked them and they'd bark constantly and you could gear them fighting, even at night... Though that seemed to be facilitated by slamming doors at all hours. She mentioned it to them. It made it worse. She contacted the council, they did nothing. In the end she moved. Someone did suggest she could try enhancing insulation and soundproofing the party wall, though I'm not sure how effective that may or may not have been.

 

As a dog owner this annoys me and is typical of a lot of small dog owners. They don't train/control them because they impute more intellect than the dog possesses and have a view it can't hurt anybody. I have a Rottweiler and went to classes etc and trained her properly. When she was a puppy she was bitten a few times by smaller dogs but just turned the other cheek. We still come across ones that owners don't seem to think should be on a lead and can just attack my dog. She's close to grown up now and doesn't stand for it anymore. If we come across a dog she doesn't know (she is very playful and has lots of dog friends), she goes on her lead and sits until we suss the situation out and I shout to the other owner (who half the time is on a phone or wearing headphones). If the owner doesn't do the same and the dog approaches mine, I let her go. Couple of weeks ago she was attacked by a staffy, she sent it bowling and had it by the throat until I pulled her off. Told the owner in no uncertain terms it was his fault and he needed to get a grip of his dog's behavior and put it on a lead. I actually think he thought it was amusing his dog would attack a rottie until he was faced with what should have been a fairly predictable outcome

 

For what it’s worth, we had a similar problem with the next door neighbour’s dog barking when they were out. We accidentally dropped something one day and the dog stopped barking, presumably trying to hear what was going on. After that, we banged once on the wall whenever the dog kicked off and the technique worked well until one day we banged and the neighbours banged back. They hadn’t both gone out!
Might be worth trying if you’re sure they’re out..

 

No you were not over reacting. Dogs are always being friendly according to their owners. When they jump up and knock over a child gey are just playing and love children.

This cannot apply to all dogs otherwise dogs would not kill people.

 

I wouldn't have kicked the dog, I would have had a right go at the owner though if they'd acted that way. Not the dogs fault it's had no training, it's just reacting as it's been allowed to do.

About a year ago I was out running and was bitten by an alsatian on the back of my leg. It was on a lead, but not a short one. It just bit me and then calmed down. The owner was visibly shocked, said it was first time it'd done anything like that, there was a cyclist coming the other way and so assumed it had felt threatened by us both closing in on it. It broke the skin, I went for tetanus etc, didn't report it though. I took the bloke's number and contacted him later to discuss, I got the feeling he was genuinely shocked about it all, and the dog certainly didn't seem aggressive at all, so I just left it, didn't even take up his offer to replace my shorts that had been ripped.

 

Of anything sound like you were too nice.

 

I was bit on the back of the leg some months ago whilst in someone’s house doing a survey, I’d clocked this dig when I first went in the kitchen, as I walked back past it it went for me, the dog looked knackered tbh but think it had recently had pups, I shouted out and got my boot ready to kick it under the chin……the owner come running in and took it outside the silly cow, since then I’m ultra wary and if I don’t feel 100% confident now will tell them to put there dog outside.