[Buyingtime]

I am always on the look out for dogs, coons, opossums, pigs, deer, bobcats, anything that can be an issue

[sauppyshurb]

Yup, I'm always looking around... leashed dogs and dogs barking behind fences aren't even on my radar though. 2 nights ago we encountered no less than 4 different loose dogs on a 20 min. walk to the store and back, and that's barely over par for the course. I find the daily "OMG I saw a loose dog today!!!" posts amusing from where I sit.

[GrileVege]

I feel ya. Where I live, it's like people don't even care that there's a leash law. Their dogs are 'trained' and don't need leashes.
On our walk yesterday, I saw this guy across the street walking his dog without a leash. Guess where the guy's leash was....... IN HIS HAND!
How lazy/egotistical/ignorant do you have to be to not just clip that leash on your dogs collar. If you're going to carry it, it might as well be fulfilling a purpose.

[OwdBKKHO]

I'm always keeping an eye out for idiots and random animals. Basically, I trust my dogs and that I can control them. I don't trust the idiots out there with their flexi-leashes and ill-trained mutts.

[XVzrlWIv]

I'm always on the lookout. Bullies are very popular in Ypsi, as is not properly containing them. Hoping I can scrape up some money for a treadmill soon.

Yesterday I saw horses, which confused me (guys on horseback in the low income suburbs? I thought I was hallucinating). Local sheriffs were prepping their horses for the fireworks crap this weekend.

So my girls got to see horses for the first time. I brought them into a yard that was about 20 feet away and put them in a sit so the horses wouldn't get spooked. Lucy wanted to either inspect them more closely, or eat them (she was sitting, and didn't get up, but scootched across the grass as far as she could). They made Ethel paranoid, and every little sound behind her after that, she jumped thinking it was the big bad horses coming to eat her.

Much better than encountering a loose pit bull any day though.

[wmtravelservice]

hehe omgrobyn, yea when I walk Goren by the horses here its either eat or sniff so I go faster so they don't spook (I mentioned this town is LITTLE right haha, I live like 4 blocks from main street but if I go about 8 blocks another direction I have horses on either side then corn and soy fields) I think its crazy when people encounter loose dogs that much Gracie's... I am planning on getting a tredmill SOON, like maybe not this pay check but the next.

[sauppyshurb]

It's common here Ell... I guess it's what happens when country folk are suburbanized or something. I can't complain too much though, Gracie was part of the problem before I got her, hell, she'd never even owned a collar at 3-4 yrs old.

[wmtravelservice]

It's common here Ell... I guess it's what happens when country folk are suburbanized or something. I can't complain too much though, Gracie was part of the problem before I got her, hell, she'd never even owned a collar at 3-4 yrs old.

WOW that is a long time to live without someone really carting for you. I think it might be more the ACO there is not doing there job, or understaffed? I mean here we have a crappy ACO who wont pick up any loose dogs/cats, you have to contain them for him or bring them in...so you do HIS job for him. But either way loose dogs are not to common here, and I am in a small town, it has 3 fast food joints, no wal-mart, no movie theater, 1 Chinese restaurant...its pretty tiny, the only thing open after midnight is the drive through at McDonalds (which is rather resent, it used to close at 11) and 1 gas station. I just don't understand people that let unspayed females run loose.

[sauppyshurb]

A.C. is around, and dogs do get picked up, but what I see is people letting little Nippers go outside to do his business in an unfenced yard while they go back inside to watch TV... they must think their at grandma's farmhouse or something. As for Gracie, she has dynamite recall, and excellent manners, she was just owned by idiots who were perfectly fine with her eating the occasional cat or getting into a scrap now and then. People are just weird.

[wmtravelservice]

yea, I hate people that let there animals run loose, but that is great about the recall and manners, wish I could say that about my boy (he is a work in progress...but also is not even 2 yet)

[Gremlinn]

Just seems to me like the normal mode of operation, kind of like when you're driving and get in the habit of scanning your gauges, mirrors, the road, gauges, mirrors, the road. etc.

On a "perfect" walk I'm not worried about what my dog is going to do, but since things are rarely perfect I'm always looking for whatever might be out there that could create a situation where I might have to worry what my dog is going to do.