On 11/19/2018 11:16 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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> "jmcquown"Â* wrote in message ...
> On 11/18/2018 11:32 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2018-11-18 1:30 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>> I heard this loud commotion out front. Dogs barking, snarling.Â*
>>> Loud! WTF?
>>>
>>> I walked out front.Â* There was a man with a dog in his arms
>>> (protectively) and his wife with a smaller dog on a leash heading
>>> away. And another woman hurrying her larger dog away from them.
>>>
>>> Not all dogs get along.Â* I don't know why everyone assumes they do.
>>> Whew, no bloodshed.Â* It could have been a bad situation.
>>>
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>> When we got our Malinois we were told that he could not be around
>> other dogs. That was confirmed when my brother brought hisÂ* LabÂ* over
>> to go for a walk. Sonny was so vicious that my bother never brought
>> his dog back and did not want Sonny there. I used to walk him in the
>> woods behind us and let him run free. A couple times we ran into
>> people with dogs running free and he was fine. When a leash free dog
>> park openedÂ* up nearby we tried it out and he was fine.Â*Â* Dogs tend
>> to get along much better when there are no leashes involved.
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> I'm not talking about a dog park or in the "woods" in the middle of
> nowhere.Â* Unleashed dogs are not a good thing in a neighborhood.Â* Dogs
> should always be under the owners control, on a leash.Â* These were,
> and they didn't like each other. Uncontrolled, it could have been a
> bad situation involving trips to the vet.
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> Jill
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Â* When I was a child , we had a Border Collie named Ring . Our neighbor
about an eighth of a mile down and across the road had one name Tippy .
They'd step out in the road , see each other and meet in the middle .
They were pretty evenly matched , never a clear winner - kinda like The
Hatfields and McCoys . The feud went on until one of them died , been so
long I don't recall which expired first . But neither ever went to the
vet over a bite or two .

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Yes , I'm old
and crochety - and armed .
Get outta my woods !