Yesterday I wrote about our snowy walk in the woods, but there was something that I didn’t write about.
We ran into a woman who walks a pack of dogs up there frequently. Her name is Brenda and she always has six dogs with her, which of them are hers I really don’t know, because she takes other people’s dogs for walks too.
She almost always has another person and their dogs with her as well. Yesterday she had a lady who had at least three of her own dogs.
The ladies and their dogs were getting ready to leave so I took the my dogs up the hill just so there weren’t three sets of dogs attempting to get into three different cars.
Alas, when we headed back down the ladies were still loading their cars.
Sampson and Delilah jumped in the car, Brenda finished loading hers and drove off, but the other lady just stood there. Waiting.
She said, two of her dogs had run off, but they would come back and that they did this all the time.
She told me where she thought they were and said they made her wait because they knew she wouldn’t leave them. I suggested that maybe it was time for her to leave them and offered to stay and wait if she wanted to drive down the street.
She got in her car and slowly started driving down the street, I called “Here puppies” and whistled. Nothing.
I walked over to the side of the road and looked between the two houses where she thought they had gone and didn’t see them.
Meanwhile the woman had turned around and come back, and she told me that they usually didn’t make her wait longer than five minutes.
Sure enough as we were driving down the street I saw the two dogs running from an entirely different direction than where she thought they were.
The incident disturbed me for a couple of reasons, one being that her dogs were running on other people’s property and two that she has no control over her dogs and worse yet, she’s not even trying to control them.
I’ve seen this issue raised on other people’s blogs on a variety of topics but my question is, how do we educate people about being a responsible dog owner? Or just being responsible around dogs?
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