Man. Some dogs' people.
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electriclandBlue and I went to the off-leash area down at the beach this morning, as we generally do; he had a fine old time galloping all over the place with a good crowd of dogs who were playing at the right level. I was just thinking about heading home when a new batch came in, including a medium-size curly blond dog that I realized, in retrospect, I'd met before. I pieced all of this together in retrospect, in fact, so this anecdote probably makes me sound quite dim. To wit:
The crowd had not been around long when the curly blond dog (male) peed on a woman's coat. The male owner -- cheerful, hearty, middle-aged -- said exactly what he said to me, viz. "You can't stand still for too long! Gotta keep an eye out!" The woman seemed only mildly annoyed, and they chuckled a bit over the incident, which surprised me, because it was a wool coat that she's probably going to have to get dry-cleaned. Anyway, this is when I knew I'd seen dog and owner before, because a week ago the same dog peed on my leg. Luckily, my jeans go in the washing machine.
Shortly after that the dog and Blue got in a bit of a snarly dominance-game scrap. The man grabbed Blue, who was on top, and we determined that nobody was hurt. Man and dog headed off down the beach while I hung onto Blue, who was annoyed. The woman -- who, it gradually dawned on me, was the co-owner of the curly blond dog and thus presumably the wife of the other owner -- told me curly blond dog was 3 years old and not neutered, and this happened sometimes, but they didn't see any point in getting him neutered because he didn't mark and didn't have any discipline problems and everyone else's dog was neutered so it didn't really matter. I pointed out that other dogs tend to go for unneutered males more often, but I was preoccupied with Blue and reflexively assuming it had mostly been his fault, and also hadn't quite connected up the two incidents, so it didn't actually occur to me until later that what I should have said was "Lady, your dog just PEED ON YOUR LEG. You have a problem."
The crowd had not been around long when the curly blond dog (male) peed on a woman's coat. The male owner -- cheerful, hearty, middle-aged -- said exactly what he said to me, viz. "You can't stand still for too long! Gotta keep an eye out!" The woman seemed only mildly annoyed, and they chuckled a bit over the incident, which surprised me, because it was a wool coat that she's probably going to have to get dry-cleaned. Anyway, this is when I knew I'd seen dog and owner before, because a week ago the same dog peed on my leg. Luckily, my jeans go in the washing machine.
Shortly after that the dog and Blue got in a bit of a snarly dominance-game scrap. The man grabbed Blue, who was on top, and we determined that nobody was hurt. Man and dog headed off down the beach while I hung onto Blue, who was annoyed. The woman -- who, it gradually dawned on me, was the co-owner of the curly blond dog and thus presumably the wife of the other owner -- told me curly blond dog was 3 years old and not neutered, and this happened sometimes, but they didn't see any point in getting him neutered because he didn't mark and didn't have any discipline problems and everyone else's dog was neutered so it didn't really matter. I pointed out that other dogs tend to go for unneutered males more often, but I was preoccupied with Blue and reflexively assuming it had mostly been his fault, and also hadn't quite connected up the two incidents, so it didn't actually occur to me until later that what I should have said was "Lady, your dog just PEED ON YOUR LEG. You have a problem."
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Date: 2008-03-03 12:31 am (UTC)And, dude, if ever a dog peed on my leg, there would be problems. LARGE, OH, HAI, YES, I'M TURNING YOUR DOG INTO A COAT, SO? problem.
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Date: 2008-03-10 12:14 am (UTC)If I see them again I will have to try and tell them so. Bad owners.