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Some people have a terrible fear of dogs, I never get to upset because I understand how fears have very little to do with the rational part of the brain. Best to just let this type of thing past by and give thanks that you are not burdened with such a fear. Blessings

Hi there; I do not have any neighbours like this. Mind you my dog is quite small and relatively harmless even to a small bird. I have heard of an instance however where a dog friend of mine was with her pooch and another woman came along with a few pit bulls on leashes, expcept one was not leashed, running amuck and in her direction. Well the girl with the leashed pit bulls happened to stop, right behind my friends parked car that she was heading to. She could not get to her car without getting right close to the woman and her pit bulls. My friend had her dog with her as well. She had to ask the woman to move along so that she could get into her car. I totally understood where my friend was coming from. The pit bulls, perhaps not at all harmless but much bigger than her dog. As for the instance of the woman seemingly afraid of your dog, I must say that I wouldn't of thought much more about it myself. Some people have had bad experiences with dog in their past which can result in them being deathly afraid of them. Meanwhile your dog isn't even looking at her and is 10 meters away so does make the handler, being yourself, second guess where this woman was actually coming from. Was she just being rude or was she sincerely afraid. This instance seems to me to be one that is so trivial, I would of just carried on and forgot it within the second that it occurred. There are much more pleasant things to entertain our mind. However, one day I was coming home with my tiny dog and she wanted to go say hi to a woman in the parking lot. As I went to approach the woman, following my dog who was leashed, the woman commented "no". I asked "do you not like dogs"? The woman replied "Not really". I asked her if she would mind if I asked why. The woman replied, asking me if she had to.. I was rather floored. In thinking that my small dog is so loving and friendly, well behaved and social, that if someone has a fear of dogs, surely my dog could easily break that in them, if they wanted. Since her response was such, I took my dog along our way and I do wonder about it since as I have seen her but I don't bother to push myself with my dog on her. In fact I go out of my way to avoid her so that she does not have to experience the dog getting too close for comfort. As a dog handler I respect that some people just do not want anything to do with dogs, no matter the size or breed. I can easily accept that as I am not into other pets than can be domesticated such as tarantulas or rats. I think that it was most responsible on your part to not have responded verbally with asking the woman if she would mind ignoring you. Just carry on and enjoy the pleasant walk with your dog. Happy Tails to you and yours. All the Best for 2011.

I do not have dogs. When I had my sister's dogs I had the opposite problem. They were not really nice dogs, but people would call them over or come up too close to them without knowing them. It is too bad that that lady has had something happen to her that has made her so unreasonably scared of dogs. It was unreasonable fear that made her act that way.

No, all my neighbors have dogs that are bigger than mine..But if I did have one, I think it'd be funny to to run into them on walks just to see their reaction..lol

It hasn't happened recently but yes I have had neighbors do this exact same thing and I was very annoyed with them too. I did the same thing as you.. Like, I'm not even near you and my dog hasn't even bothered to look at you.. if you are that afraid of dogs why are you living in a city where there are bound to be hundreds of them.. go hide under a rock... GRRR.. People and their ignorance.. if they took a little time to read up on their fear they would know that a dog that doesn't even look up at you isn't going to care one way or another whether you are coming or going... I even had one kid (and he was closer to adult really) that threw an egg and hit my dog with it one Halloween as we were down the street from our house.. my big dog yelped and this from a dog that rarely complained of any pain.. really pissed me off. My dogs (at that time.. were well trained) and walked off leash. So I noticed the kid duck behind a bush after the incident and I said Oh really... we'll see about that.. so I called my dog and we crossed to his side of the street and I called him out.. he stood up and refused to come out from behind the bush and I thought to see what he would do when threatened... so I said come out here so my dog can bite you.. he wouldn't.. but he didn't know that. I said how is it fair that you can hurt my dog and you not give him the same satisfaction. He kept stuttering he didn't do it.. with the eggs right there at his feet. Then I said fine, I'm calling the cops. he ran by me to the front porch and started going in the door.. So I said so you live here then good then I know what address to send them to. Or why don't you send your parents out. He kept stammering and I left him with the notion I was calling the cops.. when I knew that they wouldn't bother coming out for that on halloween when they are probably inundated with calls.. I was so very mad at the injustice of it.. I wished I had an egg in my hand so I could whip at him! I hated that my baby got hurt right in front of me and I couldn't stop it..

The nerve of some people. I have a large dog that is very lovable and friendly, but at night in the dark he might seem intimidating. We never take him out without a leash and it seems to me that we are the only people that do. It never fails that somebody does't have their dog on a leash and I'll have to stand there with my leashed dog for 5 minutes waiting on them to collect their dog. It's nice to see someone else with common courtesy. That woman must have something against dogs. You were a lot friendlier than I would have been.

Hi Inu I am not sure what her Problem was at all, she was out of order My Neighbours love Gissi lol but they love Animals and I have never come across that one yet Actually People call him over The same I love the Dogs in the Neighbour Hood as they are all friendly (exept one, but that is in the past) I really do not know what her Problem was but you get them everywhere I guess

Binne looks like a right killer ;-) Some people are just plain scared of dogs. Some are just plain prejudiced. We've got our share of people who make fuss about the dogs. Unfortunately, we have a public road bisecting our land so occassionally people come through territory that my dogs consider theirs. There's one woman locally who waves her umbrella at the dogs if they do much as come into sight (which is as their on my land is fairly likely!). Of course, they see this as an act of aggression and therefore start barking at her and getting excited. It doesn't matter how I try to explain to her, she just doesn't seem to get it that she is not improving the situation. The dogs have never harmed her, or even tried to. And if she didn't wave her umbrella at them they would probably have a quick bark then be on their way.

I see the picture and i guess its a cute one How can anyone afraid of this one.. May be she don't like dogs !! Well our neighbor are same like that. We having seprate bunglow but we don't having any wall in our ground. So our dogs were used to go their in their side too(just for a walk). And I guess at night dogs are giving security two both houses.. And i have never seen they have bark to them .. But still they have made wall between our ground recently so dogs don't able to go their. Well I don't mind it in fact i am happy that my dogs will not go their.