Does anyone else experience people displaying completely outrageous fear of their dogs?
Example 1: Before we had General and we just had Arrow. We took her to our oldest daughter's softball game. She was laying on a blanket next to my lawn chair. On leash, with me holding the leash. A woman with a dachshund walks by and Arrow let out a playful puppy bark as if she was saying hi. Her tail was wagging 100 mph, clearly not being aggressive. All while lying down. The lady yanked that weenie dog up so fast by the leash, I don't know how she didn't pop it's head off, and walked briskly away. 5 minutes later a man was walking by and stopped dead in his tracks and said "Oh, that's a big dog! I'm just gonna go over here!" Turned around and walked off.
Example 2: last night we have both General and Arrow at the park. We are watching our youngest play. She wanted to move over to the other playground that had 2 other kids playing on it. She runs ahead of us and starts to play. My wife and I are walking with both dogs calm and on leash. The mother of the two kids sees us while we are about 20 feet away and hollers at her kids to get off the playground. She made her kids sit down until we left. Now, I understand training your kids not to approach strange dogs, and especially not to touch them...I work on that all the time with both my girls. But to make your kids quit playing because someone in the vicinity has a dog? That's a bit extreme.
So does anyone else have any stories that relate to people being completely and illogically afraid of their dogs?
Example 1: Before we had General and we just had Arrow. We took her to our oldest daughter's softball game. She was laying on a blanket next to my lawn chair. On leash, with me holding the leash. A woman with a dachshund walks by and Arrow let out a playful puppy bark as if she was saying hi. Her tail was wagging 100 mph, clearly not being aggressive. All while lying down. The lady yanked that weenie dog up so fast by the leash, I don't know how she didn't pop it's head off, and walked briskly away. 5 minutes later a man was walking by and stopped dead in his tracks and said "Oh, that's a big dog! I'm just gonna go over here!" Turned around and walked off.
Example 2: last night we have both General and Arrow at the park. We are watching our youngest play. She wanted to move over to the other playground that had 2 other kids playing on it. She runs ahead of us and starts to play. My wife and I are walking with both dogs calm and on leash. The mother of the two kids sees us while we are about 20 feet away and hollers at her kids to get off the playground. She made her kids sit down until we left. Now, I understand training your kids not to approach strange dogs, and especially not to touch them...I work on that all the time with both my girls. But to make your kids quit playing because someone in the vicinity has a dog? That's a bit extreme.
So does anyone else have any stories that relate to people being completely and illogically afraid of their dogs?