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POLL!
Have you ever, or would you ever, take your dog for a walk & stop @ a store/gas station/whatever, & tie your dog up outside while you went in? Whether it be for 2 seconds, or 10minutes, the time really doesn't matter[Poll]
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<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DI saw that the other day and thought of this board. I'm a "never say never" person, but if something unforseen happened while walking him and I just had to go inside (maybe an emergency bathroom run or something else that's emergent), I would do it, but be very nervous about it, and do what I had to do quickly, and get back to him. I would also see if I could get someone to watch him. I would think if I'm to the point of needing to do that, I'm going to be looking pretty frantic, and hopefully someone could see that and be a good samaritan an offer to watch him.
However, I think it is completely different if you go out on a walk with the intention of tying the dog up, and I do not agree with that.
Yup, this exactly. Thats why I posted this, its not something I'd ever personally do, but people have their reasons for doing it... I might if we lived in some remote town w/500 residents & no traffic....& my dog was familiar w/every single person in town...& was the "lay down, stay put & chill type", but he's not. I honestly have no idea what he'd do if I did that, but Im sure as he!l not going to find out!! He'd prolly just stand there & whine the whole time....
It personally really bugs me when I walk, or drive, past a store & see a dog tied up outside....Pretty much breaks my heart
This. Exactly. There are a lot of people here and some of them are so stupid and wierd. Plus Gloria is an escape artist.
i answered "yes," but i don't even HAVE my dog yet! ;-)
i live in NYC, and basically everybody does that from time to time. this city has this weird/amazing unspoken policy of "self-policing"--if we see sh*t going down, we take action, be that through making a ruckus, calling the authorities, or whatever.
i'd actually be MORE concerned about it if it were a small town, where nobody is around to see anything bad happen...i'd be afraid somebody would take him.
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I would not. Where I live, I could walk to either the wrong side of the tracks or the good side. I have a pit, so if I went to the wrong side, I'd be afraid someone would take her and do God knows what with her. If I went to the good side, people might go BSC because she is a "viscous" pit bull. Really, she would just lick everyone to death.
I don't even leave her in the car if I have to run into a store. IMO, there are just some things that you don't have to do with your dog and running errands is one of them.