Random Daily Banter

[briantrumpet]

No. It is specific rage at the rising amount of dog owners who cannot be arsed to train their dog.
I have no issue with well trained dogs who walk to heel.

Zackly.

 

[Ian H]

Yes, I suspect it's reasonably easy to raise funds for it (like the extremely rich Donkey Sanctuary) because of the "Aw!" factor, but probably doesn't do mare than scratch the surface in a very limited geographical area.

That said, it's still lovely to see dogs go from vicious/near death to loving life again, if it only reminds one what can be done for animals that don't deserve to be treated like, erm, er, dogs.

Some years ago I caught a radio programme - not sure whether it was actually a food programme - in which an intrepid reporter had travelled to China to investigate the specialised restaurants there which served the male genitalia of sundry mammals. He painted the final scene, describing the noise of a plane going overhead, and really wishing he was on it, rather than in this particular restaurant contemplating the dish in front of him, which contained a steaming serving of dog penis.

 

[briantrumpet]

Some years ago I caught a radio programme - not sure whether it was actually a food programme - in which an intrepid reporter had travelled to China to investigate the specialised restaurants there which served the male genitalia of sundry mammals. He painted the final scene, describing the noise of a plane going overhead, and really wishing he was on it, rather than in this particular restaurant contemplating the dish in front of him, which contained a steaming serving of dog penis.

Cock au vin?

 

[First Aspect]

No. It is specific rage at the rising amount of dog owners who cannot be arsed to train their dog.
I have no issue with well trained dogs who walk to heel.

It's a specific rage at the number of dogs, perhaps. Which may drop after the COVID bubble, because let's face it pets are very expensive.

 

[Pblakeney]

It's a specific rage at the number of dogs, perhaps. Which may drop after the COVID bubble, because let's face it pets are very expensive.

The number of dogs is only relevant because they are untrained.
The numbers may well dwindle but I severely doubt the percentage of trained dogs will increase. One is one too many.

 

[Rusty Nails]

You do ruffle feathers. If all dogs would consistently walk to heel and would come when called (and not run under wheels), you might have a point. But the increasing leadlessness seems to be coinciding with an increasing number of people who don't train their dogs properly to walk to heel, to sit, or to come when called.

I'm more concerned with the number of people who don't train their friends or kids properly to walk properly on mixed pathways. Why do four or five people in a group have to walk side by side taking up the whole of the path.

I can manage with dogs being haphazard in movement because I expect it, but am much more put out by people who don't seem aware or care that their own awareness of others around them is lacking.

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm more concerned with the number of people who don't train their friends or kids properly to walk properly on mixed pathways. Why do four or five people in a group have to walk side by side taking up the whole of the path.

Ah, now I totally agree, but having observed this literally daily where I live, on narrow roads with pavements where people ignore the pavements and spread out across the road, even if there are only two people, I've (seriously) come to the conclusion that there's some evolutionary thing that makes people spread out like that. If you ring your bell and you're lucky enough that they hear it, it seems to momentarily jump them out of the evolutionary spreadingoutitis, and they part briefly as you pass, only to assume their previous formation once the interloper has proved not to be a mortal threat.

Not sure I can turn that into a PhD, but I'm sure @First Aspect will help me, maybe involving dogs off leads too in the thesis.

 

[Pblakeney]

Ah, now I totally agree, but having observed this literally daily where I live, on narrow roads with pavements where people ignore the pavements and spread out across the road, even if there are only two people, I've (seriously) come to the conclusion that there's some evolutionary thing that makes people spread out like that. If you ring your bell and you're lucky enough that they hear it, it seems to momentarily jump them out of the evolutionary spreadingoutitis, and they part briefly as you pass, only to assume their previous formation once the interloper has proved not to be a mortal threat.

Not sure I can turn that into a PhD, but I'm sure @First Aspect will help me, maybe involving dogs off leads too in the thesis.

Maybe it can just be narrowed down to - People.

 

[Pross]

Ah, now I totally agree, but having observed this literally daily where I live, on narrow roads with pavements where people ignore the pavements and spread out across the road, even if there are only two people, I've (seriously) come to the conclusion that there's some evolutionary thing that makes people spread out like that. If you ring your bell and you're lucky enough that they hear it, it seems to momentarily jump them out of the evolutionary spreadingoutitis, and they part briefly as you pass, only to assume their previous formation once the interloper has proved not to be a mortal threat.

Not sure I can turn that into a PhD, but I'm sure @First Aspect will help me, maybe involving dogs off leads too in the thesis.

I had this yesterday walking along a pavement shrouded by scaffolding near College Green in Bristol with 3 of your former school’s finest walking towards me taking up the full width. Given I was a good foot taller and probably getting for double their weight I assumed they would move over enough for me to pass but they didn’t. If they thought I was going to stop and move into a gap in the scaffolding they were disappointed

 

[briantrumpet]

I had this yesterday walking along a pavement shrouded by scaffolding near College Green in Bristol with 3 of your former school’s finest walking towards me taking up the full width. Given I was a good foot taller and probably getting for double their weight I assumed they would move over enough for me to pass but they didn’t. If they thought I was going to stop and move into a gap in the scaffolding they were disappointed

I think a letter written in green ink to the head teacher is in order!

 

[BoldonLad]

It's a specific rage at the number of dogs, perhaps. Which may drop after the COVID bubble, because let's face it pets are very expensive.

I am told that pet food is now included in “food parcels” at food banks, to ease the financial burden on those struggling to feed their pets.

 

[briantrumpet]

One for @Pross and his pooch:

 

[Pross]

One for @Pross and his pooch:

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Thought it was him for a moment!

 

[briantrumpet]

Thought it was him for a moment!

I assembled this one correctly in 1988. And this look he gave me as a pup never changed: looked right into me to try to work out what I was thinking. (Collie x GSD, and was a brilliant cow dog.)

A while after he'd gone (made it to 15½), I was once stopped in my tracks when I saw a dog who was his spitting image the other side of the road. The trauma of having to have him put down and then the surprise of seeing his double means I can remember exactly where I saw his double, 22 years later now. They have a way of etching themselves into your soul.

 

[Electric_Andy]

When did we as a society become incapable of living side by side with animals. Dogs, for example, have been able to play off leads for about 30000 years.

I may ruffle feathers but I think dog intolerance (within reason, and having them on leads in *all* public spaces is unreasonable) is somewhat similar to pavement cyclist intolerance. It is a sort of referred rage.

Society is not incapable of living side by side with well trained dogs. The trouble is, a lot are not sufficiently trained so some people treat all dogs as potentially troublesome/dangerous. I don't think the current population of domesticated dogs has been this high for 30000 years. Personally I don't mind dogs but I still think they shouldn't be running around, as not everyone likes them