What would you do? - Page 1

So, I am raising and training a puppy from a Husky litter of mine.  I'll be training it over the next 6 months and taking it to a friend of mine and helping them and showing them how to work with the dog, educating them on everything and eventually after a while I will leave the dog with them....after I have shown and educated them enough,  and I feel they are ready for her.  Anyway,  I'm now working on leash walking with the puppy.  She is 7 and 1/2 weeks with an awesome food drive and already walks well on the leash for her age, though as all puppies do, she has her limits.  As we continue to train (positive only don't worry) I will eventually take her walking down the roads here.  I am not worried about most any dog around here, in fact most dogs who see me now just go lie down when I'm walking their way with my dogs.  There is one dog I do worry about however.  

The puppy will walk with me a lot of times by herself to help build the bond with me, and to make it easier, though sometimes she will walk with my pack since they can help her in ways, they do know what to do after all.  One yard we pass has a female Rottie.  This dog is 100 lbs according to the owner.  I've seen this dog, never exercised, a big fenced in yard though it might as well be a prison due to having no way to drain her energy.  Any dog or car that goes by she locks into prey drive and chases back and forth ready to kill.  My worry is that,  she goes into it in an extreme way when small animals or dogs are involved.   This is a house about 300 feet from mine, that I walk past every single day on my walks with the big dogs.  In the past I had been walking my dogs down the road, and on our way back a small dog followed us........I didn't realize he was still with us until I saw the Rottie jump the fence and attack it.  Keep in mind we walk about an hour way down the road at a fast pace, and an hour back.   In the past when the Rottie jumped their fence (only 4 feet high) he came over and had an argument with me and told me to not walk my dogs down the road (the Rottie jumped the fence attacking the small dog that didn't even belong to me, and I didn't even know it was still there)  So after telling me to not walk my dogs down the road, he suggested I walk my dogs down the other side of the road (which is .2 tenths of a mile and I typically walk a minimal of 6 miles and up to 10 if we run or more if we go biking)  If you go down the short part of the road it hits a big highway with constant traffic and traffic coming from the interstate.  I will not avoid going down the road for some idiot who doesn't want to control his dogs, nor will I walk one small section 40 times to please him.

The time the dog jumped the fence in the past, he fussed and said he was not going to lose his dog, and I will not use the road in front of his yard to train my dogs (which I really didn't since my dogs pay no attention to his anyway).  He also stated that he did everything he could to stop her, but she just wouldn't listen so if she got in the road it wasn't his fault........I highly disagree with him on that.  Leash laws, and a potential threat of a dog who is out of their yard is grounds for me being allowed to kill or beat the dog due to the threat itself.   All he did to control his dog was say "come here Libby" in a cheesy voice.......a dog of that breed, fixated and locked in drive will never listen to that, especially when it's intentions are to attack or kill.  He said he did all he could do.  I even at one point offered to come over some time and help him work on it.....he just changed the subject and said I need to be a gentlemen and walk my dogs down that small part of the road or not do it at all. &nb

Bhaugh that sounds like a good plan.  On his side of the road there is a house right next to his....going down the road the way I walk typically and not the house accross from mine  (confusing but accross my house is the woman who walked her dog to the mail box....beside her house is the Rottie, and then comes the house with that tiny dog) Anyway the Rottie chases it trying to kill it through the fence (thankfully there is about 2 feet separating each owners fences) and because that dog is so small and up close that the Rottie is not putting two and two together and jumping that fence going after it. I know that house has young little children.......that house has a neurotic tiny dog.....though this dog is in a fenced in yard also, and typically pays no attention to the Rottie, the Rottie sees

Bhaugh that sounds like a good plan.  On the opposite side of the road there is the house accross from me, with the woman who had walked her dog to her mail box......then the Rotties dog going down the right......then there is a house with a tiny neurotic dog.  The tiny dogs house is fenced in, just like the Rotties..... Two feet distance separates the fences.  I'm also worried even about that house.  The Rottie tries to get through the fence....she hasn't figured out jumping the fence because the dog is so close and low to the ground, but if she ever got out and into that yard......a lot of times there are little, very young children in that yard with that little dog.

You said something that really made me think.......if I don't say anything......and something happens.....just the day I made this post a girl was walking her dog down the road.....thankfully a large breed dog and not a small breed.  But if I don't say something, and something bad happens to a dog, or especially a child then I would feel really guilty about it.  I think this Rottie is a lawsuit waiting to happen.  I remember the day it got out.  At first I took my pack back into the yard as fast as I could, ran back, and I was going to make the Rottie follow me back to it's owners yard (since it attacked the small dog who followed us.....  The Rottie stopped, with that saliva all over it's face, just foaming, and then with that silent stare....she was ready to take a bite out of me if I turned around again, so I used body language, and energy walking back and making it go back........I read the dog right though and it backed away.  After two times and walking around her and making her go towaords the owners gate she did, and he got her in.


MollyandJack  I know every single dog in this neighborhood, and all respect me or ignore me due to the training we have done with my dogs in front of their houses.....using certain approaches I wait until the street dogs or no fence dogs calm down, go back to the house and lay down until we move on.......it has worked with every dog in the neighborhoods we go through.. Most dogs see us and just keep laying down, or just go back to the house.  I've had to correct a charging PitBul in the past, though I used my hand like a set of claws and swung it into the dogs side, it ran for the house.  I actually carry a long stick at times, but still shoot me a pm on any advice.

Most every person in my neighborhood and around town knows me as the dog man. They like me, talk to me, and are nice to me.  This guy and about two others are the only ones I have had an issue with.  Most people around here if they are home get on to their own dogs for barking at me, and most apoligize if their dogs do anything......though I just tell them it's good for training, don't worry too much about it.