Tethering Dogs - Page 5

In some cities, a dog must be confined while in your vehicle - either by crate or seat belt......
oppressive laws.....

I guess I will be an outlaw then. :)

Next law will be the dog has to be restrained while in the house.....Im sure to the delight of someone.

Yup, it's just nuts.  What a world we live in where the Gov't has to govern common sense.

They've advised us for years on which way to wipe our butts, soon it will be law also.

Red Sable, I dont think I got that memo. LOL

Front to back, SSG.

"Ok since its their earth, lets cut them all loose and let them run wild in packs.....That would really be the responsible thing to do..."

I don't think anyone is suggesting that and I hope that what you meant to say in your original post on the subject was that anyone who lets his dogs run at large without supervision is irresponsible.  I see no reason not to work a dog off lead as long as its recall is reliable and if it's not, you have some more training to do.

Well Im surrounded by irresponsible owners then. My dogs arent free to roam but most of my neighbor's dogs are. I have had very few problems with loose dogs even though my yard is not fenced. I would never want any kind of leash or tethering law here even though the neighbor's dogs are loose with no fenced in yards. Everyone around here knows that if their dog starts causing problems then it is going to get shot. This simple fact does more IMO than any law could ever do.  The county sheriff is way too busy with meth labs and the like to respond to a "loose dog" call. I can see where it is different in cities and certain laws are necessary. I did once lived where we had a leash law. I had one incident where my neighbor's Chihuahua was off leash outside and attacked my Dutchie. My dutchie was trying to avoid the animal but eventually he had to defend himself. There was a vet bill and we worked it out on our own with no need for laws or LE. The more we rely on the gov to solve our problems then the more laws we will need to create. 

I had a friend once that used to go with me to the forest preserve and excersise our dogs. We let them off lead part of the time and our dogs were much more under control than other people's dogs that were on lead. Ahhh memories...........sniffle sniffle.

 You were rather generous to pay part of the attacking Chihuahua's vet bills, IMO, and you're totally right about laws begetting laws.

You'll have a friend again someday, SSG. Chin up.

And my hope for humanity has taken another blow.....
 Anyone else read that the dog in question didn't bite the mail carrier. the dog knocked the mail carrier over, and that this is how injuries were sustained. I for one would like to know what those "injuries" were.  And in either case this would have NEVER made news if the dog in question wasn't a pitbull. If that dog was actually attacking there would have been teeth marks.  

As for irresponible owners I will heartily admit that I'm one too by stated definition.  And that I had my last girl for over 12 years without incident. Our daily walk included a mile n change to a small park where I would let her off leash while I walked another 1-2 miles along the track.  I would only keep her on leash if there were other dogs around who we were not familiar with.

Once walking her at night some guy came out of the blue with two monster ( as in big ) labs, that were also off leash. My pup did what she was supposed to she came right to me when I called her and sat between me and the strange dogs, while the guy put his labs back on leash.   btw the labs were NOT acting aggressively.


My point? Mandatory leash laws punish owners who take the time to get to know and train their dog to make sure that they are reliable off leash, and only let them off leash in appropriate places. The idiots who have no problem letting their tempermental dog off leash completely unsupervised next to small children and traffic will continue doing so unfazed.