Neighbors hate my Dog?!

[Coronita]

I hope you let your landlord know you have a pitbull. Most homeowner’s insurance won’t insure, and if something did happen, you’d be in an interesting situation both by the victim and the landlord if you didn’t disclose.

You have to understand, that while you’re familiar with your dogs behavior/friendliness, no one knows your dog, and especially if it’s a pitbull (which arguably gets a bad rap in press), even more the reason why neighbors would have some concerns about not leashing. Some people who don’t have pets and have no interest in a pet perhaps don’t like getting licked by a pet, less getting bitten by one…. in as much I’m sure some people without kids would be annoyed by a screaming/crying kid who’s parents decided to put in business/first class on a red-eye flight or in a high end restaurant.

Though I don’t dislike dogs, frankly, I get agitated at owners of big dogs that don’t keep dogs on a leash in a park near around kids, especially if they let them run into sandboxes and start popping/peeing all over the place.

My second pet peeve are folks that never pick up after the dog. A year ago, one of my the folks down the street kept letting his dog off the lease and he kept pooping on my driveway. I know it was his dog, because I kept seem them same dog come over and poop all over the driveway. I told him several times that I didn’t appreciate cleaning up after his dogs mess and to do something about it, especially since the HOA rules were no unleashed pets in areas. Hey, I know HOA’s stink. But if you don’t like the rules, move out to an area where there isn’t that rule. Anyway, neighbor did squat for a few months even though I repeated asked him to cleanup, knowing it was his dog…So the day my kid stepped in on poop, I had it…For about a month, rather than scooping and dumping in my trash can, I ended up scooping and chucking on his driveway. Problem solved. Inevitably, the moved out for other reasons (financial I’m guessing).

Anyway, if you want to let your dog roam around freely, there are some dog only parks. I think there is a one on Torrey Hills, behind the Vons, for instance for folks that go there know obviously pets are not going to be leashed.

[outtamojo]

[quote=no_such_reality]”I do a pretty good job of keeping him on a leash, he has gotten lose a couple times due to his exhuberence, but ends up licking the pedestrian. He would not hurt a fly.”

More obedience training for dog and owner.

If the dog isn’t heeling, then the owner isn’t in control.

If the dog gets off the leash, then the owner isn’t in control.

You have a pit bull and you are not in control.

You say exuberance, they see agitated.[/quote]

You said it all perfectly NSR! Strangers don’t know this dog and if I had an “exuberant” dog coming at me after getting out of the owners control, I would tend to get “aggressively” worried if my kids are with me and in the past I was the one who got the funny looks like “WTF man, my dog is an angel”. I wonder if this dog owner has seen what happens when a dog in heat is in the vicinity?

[outtamojo]

[quote=no_such_reality]”I do a pretty good job of keeping him on a leash, he has gotten lose a couple times due to his exhuberence, but ends up licking the pedestrian. He would not hurt a fly.”

More obedience training for dog and owner.

If the dog isn’t heeling, then the owner isn’t in control.

If the dog gets off the leash, then the owner isn’t in control.

You have a pit bull and you are not in control.

You say exuberance, they see agitated.[/quote]

You said it all perfectly NSR! Strangers don’t know this dog and if I had an “exuberant” dog coming at me after getting out of the owners control, I would tend to get “aggressively” worried if my kids are with me and in the past I was the one who got the funny looks like “WTF man, my dog is an angel”. I wonder if this dog owner has seen what happens when a dog in heat is in the vicinity?

[outtamojo]

[quote=no_such_reality]”I do a pretty good job of keeping him on a leash, he has gotten lose a couple times due to his exhuberence, but ends up licking the pedestrian. He would not hurt a fly.”

More obedience training for dog and owner.

If the dog isn’t heeling, then the owner isn’t in control.

If the dog gets off the leash, then the owner isn’t in control.

You have a pit bull and you are not in control.

You say exuberance, they see agitated.[/quote]

You said it all perfectly NSR! Strangers don’t know this dog and if I had an “exuberant” dog coming at me after getting out of the owners control, I would tend to get “aggressively” worried if my kids are with me and in the past I was the one who got the funny looks like “WTF man, my dog is an angel”. I wonder if this dog owner has seen what happens when a dog in heat is in the vicinity?

[outtamojo]

[quote=no_such_reality]”I do a pretty good job of keeping him on a leash, he has gotten lose a couple times due to his exhuberence, but ends up licking the pedestrian. He would not hurt a fly.”

More obedience training for dog and owner.

If the dog isn’t heeling, then the owner isn’t in control.

If the dog gets off the leash, then the owner isn’t in control.

You have a pit bull and you are not in control.

You say exuberance, they see agitated.[/quote]

You said it all perfectly NSR! Strangers don’t know this dog and if I had an “exuberant” dog coming at me after getting out of the owners control, I would tend to get “aggressively” worried if my kids are with me and in the past I was the one who got the funny looks like “WTF man, my dog is an angel”. I wonder if this dog owner has seen what happens when a dog in heat is in the vicinity?

[outtamojo]

[quote=no_such_reality]”I do a pretty good job of keeping him on a leash, he has gotten lose a couple times due to his exhuberence, but ends up licking the pedestrian. He would not hurt a fly.”

More obedience training for dog and owner.

If the dog isn’t heeling, then the owner isn’t in control.

If the dog gets off the leash, then the owner isn’t in control.

You have a pit bull and you are not in control.

You say exuberance, they see agitated.[/quote]

You said it all perfectly NSR! Strangers don’t know this dog and if I had an “exuberant” dog coming at me after getting out of the owners control, I would tend to get “aggressively” worried if my kids are with me and in the past I was the one who got the funny looks like “WTF man, my dog is an angel”. I wonder if this dog owner has seen what happens when a dog in heat is in the vicinity?

[patb]

[quote=NewtoSanDiego]
Anyhow, any thoughts on how I can make people more comfortable? I do want to be at least perceived as a good neighbor.[/quote]

Shave his Ass and make him walk backwards.

[patb]

[quote=NewtoSanDiego]
Anyhow, any thoughts on how I can make people more comfortable? I do want to be at least perceived as a good neighbor.[/quote]

Shave his Ass and make him walk backwards.

[patb]

[quote=NewtoSanDiego]
Anyhow, any thoughts on how I can make people more comfortable? I do want to be at least perceived as a good neighbor.[/quote]

Shave his Ass and make him walk backwards.

[patb]

[quote=NewtoSanDiego]
Anyhow, any thoughts on how I can make people more comfortable? I do want to be at least perceived as a good neighbor.[/quote]

Shave his Ass and make him walk backwards.

[patb]

[quote=NewtoSanDiego]
Anyhow, any thoughts on how I can make people more comfortable? I do want to be at least perceived as a good neighbor.[/quote]

Shave his Ass and make him walk backwards.

[CDMA ENG]

Pitbulls have a very bad rep despite being a great dog.

Problem is that most owners buy them because they are a tough-guy status symbol and thier owners want them mean and train them to be that way.

When people see someone with a pitbull they can’t even disconnect the fact the owner isn’t of that tough-guy mentality.

Really there are no bad pits… Just owners! But the bad PR is here to stay.

I love dogs but even around pits I am cautious because YOU NEVER KNOW what the owner has taught that dog to be.

That really is root of the problem from the way I see it. My buddy owns two great pits. He is a PhD in biology and works at the research level. Despite his standing in the community and his immaculent house and yard people still treat those dogs as a threat despite not being aggressive at all.

Just the perception of the dogs…

CE

[CDMA ENG]

Pitbulls have a very bad rep despite being a great dog.

Problem is that most owners buy them because they are a tough-guy status symbol and thier owners want them mean and train them to be that way.

When people see someone with a pitbull they can’t even disconnect the fact the owner isn’t of that tough-guy mentality.

Really there are no bad pits… Just owners! But the bad PR is here to stay.

I love dogs but even around pits I am cautious because YOU NEVER KNOW what the owner has taught that dog to be.

That really is root of the problem from the way I see it. My buddy owns two great pits. He is a PhD in biology and works at the research level. Despite his standing in the community and his immaculent house and yard people still treat those dogs as a threat despite not being aggressive at all.

Just the perception of the dogs…

CE

[CDMA ENG]

Pitbulls have a very bad rep despite being a great dog.

Problem is that most owners buy them because they are a tough-guy status symbol and thier owners want them mean and train them to be that way.

When people see someone with a pitbull they can’t even disconnect the fact the owner isn’t of that tough-guy mentality.

Really there are no bad pits… Just owners! But the bad PR is here to stay.

I love dogs but even around pits I am cautious because YOU NEVER KNOW what the owner has taught that dog to be.

That really is root of the problem from the way I see it. My buddy owns two great pits. He is a PhD in biology and works at the research level. Despite his standing in the community and his immaculent house and yard people still treat those dogs as a threat despite not being aggressive at all.

Just the perception of the dogs…

CE

[CDMA ENG]

Pitbulls have a very bad rep despite being a great dog.

Problem is that most owners buy them because they are a tough-guy status symbol and thier owners want them mean and train them to be that way.

When people see someone with a pitbull they can’t even disconnect the fact the owner isn’t of that tough-guy mentality.

Really there are no bad pits… Just owners! But the bad PR is here to stay.

I love dogs but even around pits I am cautious because YOU NEVER KNOW what the owner has taught that dog to be.

That really is root of the problem from the way I see it. My buddy owns two great pits. He is a PhD in biology and works at the research level. Despite his standing in the community and his immaculent house and yard people still treat those dogs as a threat despite not being aggressive at all.

Just the perception of the dogs…

CE

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