Halo
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Has anyone else noticed many more dogs yapping, barking and snarling at them since lockdown ?
We have a small yappy dog living next door to us. We can't even open a window without starting it of barking for half an hour. The owners are taking it to lessons apparently to calm the mutt down. It's not working. Our 5 to boy makes a lot of noise playing football out the garden, perhaps they are paying us back ?I dunno how typical I am. I don't really like dogs, but they don't irritate or anything. So I mostly ignore them.
But I don't understand why owners leave dog crap laying about. And when some owners get all evangelical about spot the wonder dog, they don't seem to understand that not everyone likes dogs.
As for those small ones that do that noisy screamy yelpy thing, well, what can I say.......
Has anyone else noticed many more dogs yapping, barking and snarling at them since lockdown ?
.......But I don't understand why owners leave dog crap laying about.
Couple on the pontoon, all friendly. One comes running off the passerelle to greet me every time I walk past, slightly to the annoyance of the owners, I think.
Around town you gotta be a bit more careful with the large stray dogs, some of which can be aggressive if caught at a bad moment. Either bribing them (couple cheap dog treats in the bag) or picking up a rock usually helps though. Best not to cycle past them though, unless you're very fast!
I'm going to take a guess, are you in Licata?
Do they still gather on the small roundabout just outside the marina? In Kalamata we came across wild Tortoise's no dogs.Bingo, although also had to fend off an aggressive stray in Kalamata once. Luckily I happened to be carrying two stainless steel poles I'd just aquired, and waving them in front of the dogs nose while walking backwards caused it to keep respectful distance until we were out of its territory.
Do they still gather on the small roundabout just outside the marina? In Kalamata we came across wild Tortoise's no dogs.
.... However on average they are better behaved than children and old men.
Funny how these dog threads bring out the dog-lovers, the dog-haters, and the dog-don't-minds.
I'm in the former category and my own 20-month year old (who isn't a barker or an antisocial pooer while being extremely friendly and benign to all) has worked very hard to become as well-trained as he can be. Some dog owners are plain rubbish and many are just ignorant and/or lazy (vis the ten thousand poo-bags currently polluting the countryside), but its never the dog's fault.
Put simply, if a dog fouls on a pontoon then two or three bucket-loads of seawater is all that's needed.