Perhaps we need licensing for all dog owners
I was walking on the beach in the last week of the summer holidays with my children, when a dog came bounding up to us. Dogs aren’t, but a dog came bounding up nevertheless. It jumped up at my five-year-old, putting its paws on her arms and yapping excitedly into her face. She shrieked, I pushed it away, and she hid behind me, shaking with fear.
From 30 feet away a man, strolling nonchalantly towards us, called, “It’s ok, he’s friendly.” The dog was bouncing around us, sniffing my two-year-old who kept trying to back away from it while I tried to fend it off. The man called the dog. It ignored him. He called it again. The third time, the dog ran to him and they carried on their way. My daughter was sobbing.. The owners, from far away, call, “It’s ok, he’s friendly.”My daughter now has a phobia of dogs.
“They’re just being friendly,” I’m always told by the owner if I protest. But when you’re less than four feet tall, most dogs on their hind legs are bigger than you. A jumping dog can easily knock you down. Its barking mouth, full of big teeth, is in your face. It’s terrifying.. When I ask people to stop their dogs jumping at my children, they get angry with me.
One woman told me I shouldn’t take my daughter to the park if she doesn’t like dogs. I asked if she genuinely believed a small child shouldn’t be allowed to visit the playground inside her local park because people won’t train their dogs properly, and she walked away. I don’t think people would appreciate my children running up and jumping all over them. It’s my responsibility to teach my children to behave respectfully towards other people. If you have a dog, it’s your responsibility to teach them the same. And to clean up after them.
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