Discretion about family Dogs in Hut's

Gee Gaz that was a big jump to make and a little insulting assumption. There is a huge difference between a dog and a human. Do you treat your dog like you do your family? A dog loves a social order. It loves rules and disciple that is how they behave naturally. I have a border collie. She likes to work not cuddle always has. Dogs are capable of doing terrible things to small and large humans and it's our responsibility to put others at ease in regards to our dogs when they are out and about in public. If you want to have no control over your dog that's your choice. But to answer your question. Are you kidding? Of course I don't treat my wife and kids like I do my dog . It's a dog and they are my wife and kids??

The amount of times I’ve been walking on a beach with a lot of people around and just about been bowled by completely uncontrolled dogs…. The owners exert no control and the dogs just recognise it as a no holds barred location and behave accordingly and go mad and the owners often have minimal control. Then dogs start interacting with other dogs and it’s a free for all… sure a dog should have some freedom to run but when theres lots of people around, I think that’s wrong. Take a dog to an open park if you have that much trouble keeping it under control and get some obedience lessons. If they are near people they need to behave themselves within reason

"The amount of times I’ve been walking on a beach with a lot of people around and just about been bowled by completely uncontrolled dogs…" You must be unlucky with dogs wayno. :-) "A dog loves a social order. It loves rules and disciple that is how they behave naturally." Gaiters nails it. The big mistake people make with dogs is treating them as if they were just hairy, somewhat stupid humans. Absolutely they are not. If took me years to learn this, to start to see and respect dogs for exactly what they are. Basically they're a massive nostril on legs that want to run all day. With their own instincts, and subtle ways of communicating. Too many people don't seem to understand that dogs DO NOT understand English. But they do read, body language, tone and pheromones just like you read the pixels on this page. Their sense of past, present and future is less structured than ours, and if you want to link cause and effect for them effectively ... it is really important to do it NOW. In the present. They cannot link an action they did a minute ago, with you yelling "bad boy" at them now. Sure they know you are angry with them because of your loud, barking tone and stiff, threatening posture ... but they have absolutely, blissfully no idea why. This isn't the place for a lecture on dog psychology. Suffice to say in my experience (and I too had to figure it out the hard way), almost all problems people have with dogs arise because we don't respect them as creatures in their own right, and we don't communicate with them effectively. Crucially as Gaiters says above, this lack of communication means the dog is left without social order, work and purpose. Which then stresses them and creates anti-social behaviours. (As it does in all creatures.) It's hard to put into words, but we've been around many, many dogs and have never, with one notable exception, been bothered any 'bowling' or charging us. The exception was a neighbors animal that was bred as a hunting dog, but had been brought to town as a pet. A very bad idea, because lacking the social order and work it's particular instincts demanded, it could not control itself properly in a human environment. It's another whole story, but one day it all came to a head, and it was another highly socialised, but very dominant dog which came to my rescue and sorted it for me. Quite a spectacular moment. Dogs live in this remarkable, dependent, almost symbiotic relationship with humans. For the most part they do their very best to adapt to us ... sadly too many people fail to hold up their side of the bargain.

where i live there are alloted times for dogs on beaches, so everyone goes walking their dogs at that time, i need to walk when the tide is reasonably low to get past the beaches , so i have to walk whenever that happens and half the time its when the dogs are out... and all the townies are letting fido go beserk... my sister has a pure bred sheep dog and its not well trained....

"did you mean: if you're dog "can't" sleep outside" oops, yep :)

I go running along a river quite often, it is so nice having so many friendly dogs around. A few run up to say hey, some race me... Never meet a dog which I did not enjoy and none have ever caused me a problem... Well some are a bit too cute, so I have to slow down to pat and cuddle them. Cyclists are a much bigger hazard.

I'm with you Gaiters It really annoys me when people let their dogs run out in front of them. All dogs want to be out in front. I've been out tramping with my children and dog, which is always on its lead. More than once we have encountered other dogs out in front of their owners. As soon as it sees my dog it comes running. Keep your dogs behind you. Its just not on It scares people and its bloody frightening for kids Don't get upset when you finally catch up and I'm giving your dog a kick to try and keep it off my dog.

Well this is pertinent and quite interesting: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-30/mans-friendship-with-dogs-may-be-genetic,-new-study-suggests/7893206