Dog Attack
We were camping in a area in our Casita & found an Apple Festival was going on. We grabbed out little dog and we were on our way. It was at an apple farm. It was crowded and folks had there dogs with ...
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None of this is new. Been this way forever in my experience, which should not be confused with YOUR experience.
In the late 70s I was a vendor at a Renaissance Festivals. At one in particular dogs were allowed, but had to be leashed at all times. This guy came in with a German shepherd he immediately let run free. It was a well behaved but not well trained dog. Unfortunately there was an attraction there that was giving rides in a donkey cart, who asked me to help corral the dog because it’s presence was spooking his donkey.
I approached the dog’s owner with a request to leash the dog and was rebuffed with a claim the dog was safe. I had to explain that there was this donkey cart, and was interrupted but a look of horror and an exclamation “he wouldn’t hurt my dog, would he?”
Took several minutes to explain that the dog wasn’t at risk, it was all the people who’d get run over by the panicked donkey cart, due to the predator-prey relationship between dogs and donkeys, and he’d be the target of lots of lawsuits.
Ignorance is and always has been rampant. Fortunately it is curable with patience.
In the late 70s I was a vendor at a Renaissance Festivals. At one in particular dogs were allowed, but had to be leashed at all times. This guy came in with a German shepherd he immediately let run free. It was a well behaved but not well trained dog. Unfortunately there was an attraction there that was giving rides in a donkey cart, who asked me to help corral the dog because it’s presence was spooking his donkey.
I approached the dog’s owner with a request to leash the dog and was rebuffed with a claim the dog was safe. I had to explain that there was this donkey cart, and was interrupted but a look of horror and an exclamation “he wouldn’t hurt my dog, would he?”
Took several minutes to explain that the dog wasn’t at risk, it was all the people who’d get run over by the panicked donkey cart, due to the predator-prey relationship between dogs and donkeys, and he’d be the target of lots of lawsuits.
Ignorance is and always has been rampant. Fortunately it is curable with patience.
