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There is a local restaurant and bar that is highly dog oriented that a neighbor and I stopped by last night on the way home from the south eastern wildlife expo (whole diff story, but neither of my dogs reacted to being about 5 feet from a mountain lion in a cage!). Anyway, as I'm walking with dogs to the fenced in patio a guy comes up to me and begins telling me how he has bred & trained GSDs for over 30 years, that he has over 150 dogs in the "working dog system" (he kept referring to "the working dog system" lol). He's beginning to lose a little cred with me. Then he tells me he has 2 dogs in his jeep that are... I believe he said "lepherds", which was explained to me as lab/gsd mix... that they were crossed on purpose (dunno why), and that they are amazingly well trained and better than a regular GSD. Ok, whatever, I'll humor him.. I don't like conflict.
So then he calls my female to the edge of the fence (he was outside of the patio) and pets her, grabs her hips and tells me she's got really tight "jumping" hips. About this time my neighbor texts me and tells me he's drunk and just got in an argument with him before I arrived... great.. Then he says to my dog "gimmie sit" over and over again. My male comes over, and he says the same thing. So *I* tell them to sitz and they do. He then tells me I need to work on my training, and I said, well they don't respond to english, and I've worked on and prefer them to listen only to the handler. He disagrees and says that the dog should obey anyone. He then tries to hand shake my dog. I tell him he doesn't do tricks. The guy stands up and looks him straight in the eyes and says something I didn't catch in an aggressive tone and some snide comments about my dogs being untrained. My male really doesn't like strange men at night being that close to us, and particularly at this point I'm getting tense as I'm not sure what this moon-bat is going to do. So Jäger gives a very strong, aggressive bark while still sitting (and wagging his tail lol) and the guy jumps 5 feet back and tells me I need to socialize my dogs if I want to have them in public. I tell them that they are in public 24/7 and we just came from an event with ~50,000 people and about the same amount of dogs with no incidents (a K9 handler working actually came over and produced a kong on a rope to play with Katya and really loved her.. *HE* actually used german commands correctly). So he stomps off, and calls his dogs for 5 minutes to jump out of his jeep. They won't so he eventually comes and lets them out. First thing they do is charge the fence and go ballistic at our dogs (2 gsds and a cane corso). I recall Katya and she returns to me, hackles raised and growling and all, while the other dogs are still teeth-gnashing at the fence (horray for Katya! We are finally getting her to think even when she's ultra-distracted). Jager never left my seat. He has to come manually remove his dogs from the fence. He then begins to try to "demo" the dogs training (send outs, recalls, etc) They don't do any of it. So he tells his dogs to get back in the jeep. Dogs run by fence and the fence attack happens again lol. Katya once again charges but recalls midway on command.
Finally the guy leaves after tripping and falling on the way inside and is told no more booze for you... good lord, some people are so stupid.
So then he calls my female to the edge of the fence (he was outside of the patio) and pets her, grabs her hips and tells me she's got really tight "jumping" hips. About this time my neighbor texts me and tells me he's drunk and just got in an argument with him before I arrived... great.. Then he says to my dog "gimmie sit" over and over again. My male comes over, and he says the same thing. So *I* tell them to sitz and they do. He then tells me I need to work on my training, and I said, well they don't respond to english, and I've worked on and prefer them to listen only to the handler. He disagrees and says that the dog should obey anyone. He then tries to hand shake my dog. I tell him he doesn't do tricks. The guy stands up and looks him straight in the eyes and says something I didn't catch in an aggressive tone and some snide comments about my dogs being untrained. My male really doesn't like strange men at night being that close to us, and particularly at this point I'm getting tense as I'm not sure what this moon-bat is going to do. So Jäger gives a very strong, aggressive bark while still sitting (and wagging his tail lol) and the guy jumps 5 feet back and tells me I need to socialize my dogs if I want to have them in public. I tell them that they are in public 24/7 and we just came from an event with ~50,000 people and about the same amount of dogs with no incidents (a K9 handler working actually came over and produced a kong on a rope to play with Katya and really loved her.. *HE* actually used german commands correctly). So he stomps off, and calls his dogs for 5 minutes to jump out of his jeep. They won't so he eventually comes and lets them out. First thing they do is charge the fence and go ballistic at our dogs (2 gsds and a cane corso). I recall Katya and she returns to me, hackles raised and growling and all, while the other dogs are still teeth-gnashing at the fence (horray for Katya! We are finally getting her to think even when she's ultra-distracted). Jager never left my seat. He has to come manually remove his dogs from the fence. He then begins to try to "demo" the dogs training (send outs, recalls, etc) They don't do any of it. So he tells his dogs to get back in the jeep. Dogs run by fence and the fence attack happens again lol. Katya once again charges but recalls midway on command.
Finally the guy leaves after tripping and falling on the way inside and is told no more booze for you... good lord, some people are so stupid.
Like with most things, people that talk a lot, usually can't back it up.
