Cane Corso moved in 3 doors down (Townhouses) am I being unreasonably concerned?

[vacation1]

[QUOTE=beowulf;7725004]
I have to give a colossal eyeroll to anyone who is so anti-pit/bull breed - nothing shouts narrowminded ignorance more to me.[/QUOTE]

I’d question the use of eye-rolling in a written format, but given quality of your actual arguments, it’s probably best if you stick to grimaces and hand gestures to communicate.

@beowulf;7725004

Half the reason bullies have such a reputation is because just about any stray with four legs and two eyes is classified as a pit/bully breed - regardless if it has any bully ancestry. So really, you’re looking at thousands of misguided and misidentified ‘cases’ where a ‘bully breed’ is responsible for ‘yet another brutal and vicious mauling’.

That might work better if so many pit bull attacks, particularly the fatal ones, weren’t done by pets instead of strays. Pets which are registered American Bullies, like the thing in the Mia DeRouen killing. Pets which the owners had proudly, pre-attack, lauded on their FB pages as “ambassabulls” and specifically called pit bulls, like the Cindy Whisman killing. There are huge holes in the “can’t nobody ID a pit bull” argument.

@beowulf;7725004

ALL dogs are INHERENTLY dangerous. Cute yellow labs kill people too! Really, BSL doesn’t work, won’t work, and in 30 years there will still be bully breeds here.

No, all breeds are not inherently dangerous. All wolves are, all coyotes are, etc., because they are wild animals whose breeding choices have been fairly random. Dogs are domesticated animals whose breeding has been controlled by humans who wanted specialists. So we have herders and hunters and chasers and retrievers and killers. The only killers are the bulldogs. The terriers and the greyhounds, as predatory as they can be, are primarily about hunting and chasing. The only type that was created to close, to attack and attack until the target died, was the bulldog. Dogs will always bite. A few dogs will always attack. Breeds designed for guard/protection work will almost always have a higher incidence of this than breeds designed to trail a rabbit through a field. And a few dogs will always kill. That’s just a realistic understanding of the world. There will always be an individual that’s bizarrely aggressive, an abberation. Short of eliminating the species, you can’t eradicate the potential of canines to hurt humans. But you can remove 60% of the worst dog behavior by removing one strain of dog. Remove the bulldog, or rework it so the aggression is gone, and you have a vastly improved situation for both dogs and humans.

[gottagrey]

well folks the CC owner was away on vacation and then I was out of town… So yesterday I’m returning home from walking my dog… out bounds the CC, owner calling her to sit… then says to dog just say Hello… Since I was steps away from my house, and being chilled from vacation, I didn’t say anything about keeping dog on leash… but then owner takes CC for a run around a pond near our homes - no leash, no collar. I hope he at least put some Frontline or something on the dog - that area is full of ticks.

We’ll see what the next few weeks bring… in the meantime the other neighbor’s not-so-friendly boxer/pit mix almost took out a poodle. Ah life in the burbs.

[Bicoastal]

[QUOTE=gottagrey;7729385]
well folks the CC owner was away on vacation and then I was out of town… So yesterday I’m returning home from walking my dog… out bounds the CC, owner calling her to sit… then says to dog just say Hello…[/QUOTE]

Did the dog sit? What does “just say hello” mean?

I have experienced a certain anxious tone of voice, “Fluffy, be nice. Just say hello. It’s oooook, Fluffy. Be niiiiice.” from owners of dogs straining on their leashes, hard staring, growling, and posturing at my dogs. NO ONE is saying hello, thankyouverymuch, and reel your d@mn dog in (cuz those dogs/owners are always attached to flexis)!

[OneGrayPony]

I have experienced a certain anxious tone of voice, “Fluffy, be nice. Just say hello. It’s oooook, Fluffy. Be niiiiice.” from owners of dogs straining on their leashes, hard staring, growling, and posturing at my dogs.

Or not growling and just posturing. Those are the ones that make me nuts, because that will set my dog off. Idiots.

[Lilly]

Just wanted to put this out there:

Dog bite reports and statistics

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_dog_attacks_in_the_United_States#Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention:_1974.E2.80.931975

http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/images/dogbreeds-a.pdf

Most popular breeds

http://www.akc.org/press_center/article.cfm?article_id=4823

http://www.dogchannel.com/dog-news/2014/01/large-dog-breeds-most-popular-dogs-list.aspx

[gottagrey]

[QUOTE=Bicoastal;7730451]
Did the dog sit? What does “just say hello” mean?

I have experienced a certain anxious tone of voice, “Fluffy, be nice. Just say hello. It’s oooook, Fluffy. Be niiiiice.” from owners of dogs straining on their leashes, hard staring, growling, and posturing at my dogs. NO ONE is saying hello, thankyouverymuch, and reel your d@mn dog in (cuz those dogs/owners are always attached to flexis)![/QUOTE]

the owner was telling his dog to “sit” but she preferred to run over to my dog where owner now tells dog to “just say hello”… We have a condo association meeting this Wednesday so I’m going to discuss this owner w/ our condo manager about her sending the dog owner a letter about our county leash laws - like there IS one.

[Bicoastal]

Nope, notta, no way!

[QUOTE=gottagrey;7730716]
the owner was telling his dog to “sit” but she preferred to run over to my dog where owner now tells dog to “just say hello”… [/QUOTE]

Where is the hair tearing out icon? :mad: Ack I’m so sorry this is happening!! This makes my blood boil. The irresponsible owner is jeopardizing the entire association’s dog rules while damaging the reputation of all dog owners and that breed.

I think I remember the dog is being professionally trained? Wouldn’t it be great if we could alert that trainer to client’s behavior? Because the client is also damaging his trainer’s rep.

[gottagrey]

[QUOTE=Bicoastal;7731317]
Where is the hair tearing out icon? :mad: Ack I’m so sorry this is happening!! This makes my blood boil. The irresponsible owner is jeopardizing the entire association’s dog rules while damaging the reputation of all dog owners and that breed.

I think I remember the dog is being professionally trained? Wouldn’t it be great if we could alert that trainer to client’s behavior? Because the client is also damaging his trainer’s rep.[/QUOTE]

You got that right. No the dog is not being professionally trained - owner is “reading books” (where is that hair pulling out icon??) on dog training. A professional trainer would hopefully have advised the guy if nothing else to put a dang collar on the dog when it was outside!! SMH.

[Marshfield]

[QUOTE=gottagrey;7730716]
the owner was telling his dog to “sit” but she preferred to run over to my dog where owner now tells dog to “just say hello”… We have a condo association meeting this Wednesday so I’m going to discuss this owner w/ our condo manager about her sending the dog owner a letter about our county leash laws - like there IS one.[/QUOTE]

This would upset me whether a large breed or small coming up to my dog in a public place. There is a very nice park near where I work, nice trail, etc. I take one or more of my girls with me when I am working at/staying at the e-clinic and have largely given up walking them. They have a close command but having all these random dogs on flexi-leads bound up to them is stressful for me.

[Bicoastal]

Just happened last night

Walking my guys last night, owner & leashed dog is approaching on the same sidewalk head on. I pull over into someone’s yard so dogs can pass with distance. Other owner stops and pulls her dog over. Nice!

We start passing and she says of her dog, “if he starts barking, he’s just saying hi.”

Dog is a terrier. He is straining on his leash, head & ears up, hackles up, hard staring, and that quiet frantic vocalizing. Ever seen ‘terrier sparing’? That was it! That owner’s definition of “saying hi” vastly differs from mine. That kind of thing happens all of the time. No, your dog is not saying “hi,” he’s saying “lemme at em!”

[gottagrey]

my other neighbors dog - the boxer/pit mix (who’s attacked 4 dogs so far -all unreported :mad:) should be walked w/ a muzzle but they don’t. The CC dog I don’t cross paths with that much but am still cautious - and will be even more diligent as dog matures / boxer/pit I avoid at all costs.

the other thing that is of course irritating is the CC neighbor also don’t think the neighborhood (and county) poo laws apply to him so he never picks up pooches poo even though we have County bags and bin provided for us. SMH

[Roxyllsk]

Unfortunatly loose dogs and owners not picking up after them seem to go together.

Can you get pictures on you cell phone of the dog running loose w/o collar and leash ? The association will have more ammo to fine these people if you have proof of the violation.

My neighbor was not cleaning up after his dog behind the buildings, where the kids play. He’d been told a few times to clean up after his dog and pretty much ignored everyone. He was not pleased when the poop was left on top of his BBQ grill on a few occasions. Amazingly he started picking up after the dog after that.

[gottagrey]

I don’t think I’ll need proof - I’m on our condo board so I just have to pass the info along to the association manager (all correspondence goes through our management company. Its just annoying because the guy is a nice fellow and I don’t want to create any neighborhood stink w/ him but its a pain because he’s not being a responsible dog owner. humph

[Lil_Nibs]

I have nothing at all helpful to offer in terms of advice, but would definitely be interested in learning how things turned out with you. Best of luck, OP! I can just see this turning out well, or not so well…

[North_Dakota]

Good luck!

It drives me crazy when people let their dogs just run loose and they think it’s okay for them to go ‘visiting’.

My dog got attacked last year by 2 dogs off leash, while she was on a leash. The owner stood by and did nothing.

Oh and last week I was at the park with a family members kids (5, 7, 9 and 9) and my family’s dogs, 4 of them under 8 lbs, 2 of which ride in a stroller and my dog. I’m watching the boys and see a lady with 2 dogs on leashes off in the distance. I have my group on leashes (or locked in the stroller) this lady takes one of her dogs OFF it’s leash so it can come over to see mine! My dog wasn’t overly happy, and the lady didn’t do anything until I was calling out to her to please get her dog away from mine.

Sorry for the little vent, I just haven’t got over the fact that she took her dog OFF it’s leash. I did see it farther back on the leash, I had seen it off the leash earlier I would have removed my dogs.

[gottagrey]

[QUOTE=Lil Nibs;7734668]
I have nothing at all helpful to offer in terms of advice, but would definitely be interested in learning how things turned out with you. Best of luck, OP! I can just see this turning out well, or not so well…[/QUOTE]

I just hope the dog doesn’t get overly protective of her family as a group of young neighborhood kids play together in the green in front of our houses - and sometimes the dog is out w/ them… If he continues to keep the dang dog off leash mine is small enough where I can pick her up and will do so to avoid the dog. Hopefully nothing bad will happen but the evil boxer/pit mix started off being pretty friendly and is now very animal aggressive.

[Moesha]

I hope everything turns out ok, the leash law violation shuold be the main thing you all focus on at first.

Aggressive and dangerous animals are out there …but more often than not it is the mentality of the people that own and care for them that sadly gets animals in so much trouble .

[Moesha]

I hope everything turns out ok, the leash law violation should be the main thing you all focus on at first.

Aggressive and dangerous animals are out there …but more often than not it is the mentality of the people that own and care for them that sadly gets animals in so much trouble .

[2tempe]

I’m not familiar with CC’s, other than what I’ve read - and those breed discussions do make one worry. I will say that ANY dog off leash that is big/heavy can create problems. My old chow mix got literally knocked off her feet by a Golden Retriever who was 75 lbs at least, and not friendly. He came at us snarling, growling and only backed off when I kicked him. Fortunately she was ok. A big dog that jumps up to say hi can knock a person off their feet, causing injury. A big dog can jump and grab at a small dog being held. I have seen people hurt at the dog park by big dogs who are really just playing but not watching who they slam into.
Your neighbor may be a nice guy, but he’s also not thinking. Hope he has a big liability policy…

[Roxyllsk]

My last rescue did NOT like other dogs. He had been attacked by a chow that was off leash 2x when I lived in the condo. He carried the scars on his face from that attack for the rest of his life. So I honestly don’t blame him for not liking other dogs.

If I saw other dogs in my neighborhood I would turn and go the other way and my dog would settle down.

Anyway my neighbor had let their little dog off leash and it ran down the street barking its head off, comign after my dogs. My dogs (on leash of course) FLIPPED out. When this little dog went after my dogs, they latched onto little dog and a big fight ensued. With the help of 2 other neighbors, I was able to break up the dogfight. Then later that day the owner of the dog actually had the balls to try and give me the vet bill for his dog. I mean seriously ??? I told him I was sorry his dog got hurt, but it was the direct result of his dog not being on a leash.

I really think it should be harder for people to have dogs as pets. There are just too many stupid people out there.