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Quote: Originally posted by Gemini-Lou on 07/6/2011

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Any dog that jumps up, at or on people or other dogs in not behaving in a socially acceptable way to either other dogs or humans. Both myself and my dog would see that as threatening, unsociable and out of control behaviour.
As one of those owners who puts the dog on a lead to ensure 100% control of any situation, instead of the 99% off lead control I have. I get fed up of being told how my dog should behave by people who don't know my dogs history / situation, and believe that they know better.
After watching many people try and fail to control off lead dogs that are bothering my girl, to be told he/she he is just lively today, never done that before, hasn't been out for weeks. Through shear frustration I have offered to jump on complete strangers in the past & lick their faces, nip their hind legs, run under their bellies, try to mount them but they seem to take offence & think I'm out of control. My Dog has a 35cm scar on her belly where as a puppy she was savaged by an off lead dog.

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Perfectly put.  Very sorry about your dog's nasty experience. 

My old little dog hated black dogs with a venegance,  & the bigger the black dog the more she hated it...  Like most terriers she seemed to think she was actually fit to take any of them on though      A bit worrying when encountering big black labs / dobermans etc off the lead with owners lagging back paying no attention at all, or even nowhere in sight as the dogs bound round the corner in a forestry track.  

Apologies for the straying off topic again though - my fault, sorry.

 

Quote: Originally posted by Gemini-Lou on 07/6/2011I remember getting really irate after some really loud snoring woke me in the middle of the night, and was stopping me going back to sleep. I woke the hubby to share my misery (as you do), complaining that surely the mystery camper was aware of his anti-social sleeping behaviour and would be better off in a travel lodge

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My O/H wearing a wry grin, calmly pointed out that the horrendous noise, was actually coming from our recently adopted rescue Boxer girl asleep at the end of my bed I had forgotten we had her and at home she sleeps in a different room so don't hear her snore's

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Quote: Originally posted by Gemini-Lou on 07/6/2011

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Through shear frustration I have offered to jump on complete strangers in the past & lick their faces, nip their hind legs, run under their bellies, try to mount them but they seem to take offence & think I'm out of control. My Dog has a 35cm scar on her belly where as a puppy she was savaged by an off lead dog.

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This happened to my dog too. I had a Rough Collie who was very friendly & well behaved. When he was three years old I was walking him down the road on the lead when two Cairn terriers ran at him & started attacking. The owner called them back, but they didn't take a blind bit of notice of him. I yelled at him to grab his dogs, but he seemed scared to do this, still just standing there calling them back. Whilst one of them was attacking my dogs back legs, the other one grabbed my dogs nose & he carried a big scar on his nose for the rest of his life.

Almost two years after this event, the same dogs who had attacked my dog (still walked off the lead), attacked a neighbours little Yorkie & ripped it's stomach open so badly that it had to be put to sleep. The owner told my neighbour  that his dogs were really soft & they'd never done anything like that before  

I love your idea of what to say to the owners

 

 

 

 

This is certainly a whole can of worms between children and dogs

We have a rescue dog and for some reason ,that we don't know why he doesn't like boys 'so we try to go to adult only sites if possible he is always tethered when on site and is let off for runs in the dog walk or in the country ( permitting wild animals and livestock of course )

If we do go to a site where there are children i have found that like dog owners there are good and couldn't careless parents who only think of their own tent not about anyone elses as i have heard some parents telling their kids not to play round their tent and to "go over there" pointing to ours when we have gone as far away from kids as possible ,thats when i get cross they have brought the kids away on holiday not me !!!

Don't get me wrong i quite like the sounds of kids playing but not on top of my tent

Quote: Originally posted by Bowies on 07/6/2011

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I don't think anyone on here dislikes kids playing or running free, but I've brought my own kids and dogs up camping, they've had loads of freedom on the campsites (not the dog), but knew to play away from the tents/caravans and respect everyones space.

I love to hear the sound of kids laughing and having fun, but if they play with a ball next to my tent, i'll politely but firmly move them on.  I pay alot of money for my camping equipment as does everyone else, so i won't allow ball games around it.

My dog is always on a lead, apart from when out for a walk off campsite, if anyone comes around our tent she will bark and let them know this is her patch, but she doesn't bark for no reason.

And neither do i, (and I don't bite either )

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Back to children - as a parent of a young child myself whose been camping since he was 2 and had a few nightmares whilst on site - I must admit one night last week was one of the worst nights I've had camping for many years. A 2 year old's birthday party (as we overheard) that involved several families (fortunately for only one night as it turned out).

OK - chatting into the early hours by the adults was a bit inconsiderate but sleepable through, but ... there was one toddler that was allowed to distressingly "scream" for 20 mins - 1/2 hour at 12.30 at night whilst there was no evident attempt by the chatting adults to quiet or console them. The child repeatedly screamed (not cried) during the daytime too so it was obviously well known by the parents.

We always take immediate action to calm and quieten our son if he has a nightmare (and he's quiet within a minute or two), but to take no action and allow your child to wake up a site of campers whilst you party is just unacceptable IMHO. If the child has an issue may be the parents should consider whether they should impose it on other people. We all suffered the effects of sleep deprivation for several days as a consequence. Thank goodness they only stayed the one night...!

Quote: Originally posted by happycampers98 on 13/6/2011

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How many times have i heard the owner of a dog who is running up to mine shout, its ok he only wants to play, and then it precedes to growl and have a go!!!
My dog has been bitten so many times that i tend to keep him on his lead unless we're on the beach and its quiet. Hes old now anyway so doesnt mind cos his legs arent as good as they used to be.
We used to let him off the lead until he was bitten once and now he's grumpy. He hates staffies, rotties, dobermans, german shep and dalmations cos these have all bit him in the past, while he's been on the lead.
Thats my pet hate tho, he only wants to play!!

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snap. Clint is a rescue dog, we don't know his history, but have sussed he hates bikes and hi vis jackets. And while sometimes he's fine with other dogs sometimes he does snap. So he's always on a lead without fail. We know he doesn't like staffs, huskeys and one other tyebreed which escapes me at the min, so avoid them like the plague. But with other breeds sometimes he'll be fine others not. It does annoy me when we're walking clint on lead, and we see another dog we know Clint wont like, so take evasive action, then the owner allows their dog to come chasing after Clint. Doh we've just avoided you for a reason???? They then get stressy cos Clint growl or snaps.  Seems sometimes we just cant win.