Today's "what the heck!?!" moment.

[Romy]

Does anybody remember when I posted about the lady with two grotesquely obese chocolate labs, that opened our gate and let them go to the bathroom in our yard?

Well, she's back. Actually, I think it might be a different lady like a dog walker or something this time. It's definitely the same exact dogs, but I wasn't sure if it was the same lady. Anyway, this time the person walking the dogs had the following:

The two obese chocolate labs
Two small brown mixes (15-ish lbs?)
A pug
A three legged dog that looks like a groendale.

So six dogs total. One of the chocolate labs and the three legged dog is off leash. I should also mention that both labs are VERY DR/leash aggressive. They always try to eat my dogs when they see them outside.

The neighbors left our gate open this morning, so Three Leg Dog hobbles into our yard and takes a dump. The lady followed up the sidewalk really slow with a HUGE mass of dogs and leashes around her. Then the nice neighbor man with the elderly st. poodle came out his door, totally oblivious and ready to take his dog for a walk.

Oh. My. Gosh.

Can I just say walking 6 dogs together, one off leash DA and several on leash DR is a VERY BAD IDEA! The pug decided to kill the poodle across the road, both labs were freaking out and the one was dragging her. Three Legs was happily zooming off leash through the chaos, the pug redirected on the leashed lab and all four on leash dogs began fighting. It was like a train wreck. The pug was literally hanging from the lab's neck, it's really lucky it didn't get killed. :wall: Luckily(?) the off leash lab totally forgot about the elderly man with the poodle because of the massive dog fight taking place behind it. And the leashed lab was so fixated on the poodle he didn't bite the pug in half. Honestly I'm not sure how she untangled it all and managed to keep everyone in one piece. Ugh.

I'm so glad me and my dogs were inside the house. Ugh. How on earth does someone expect to walk 6 dogs at once and have any kind of control at all? Much less when two are off leash? For that matter, how the heck are they picking up the poo? Three Leg dog's poo is still out there.

 

[Backward_Cinderella]

Yeahhhh... I'd call animal control and report her. Do you know where she lives?

 

[Romy]

No idea. I wish I knew if it was the same lady. One of the brown mixes probably lives with the labs because it's usually walked with them. I've never seen the other dogs before. I remember their owner being heavier, but it's entirely possible she's lost weight or something. The other person I see walking the usual three is a tall slender dude with a really long brown beard.

ETA: Beard Guy keeps them under control really well though. He never has them off leash which is awesome, and if he sees us coming he'll stop and redirect them somehow so they'll not flip out at my dogs.

 

[Kat09Tails]

Consider investing in a gate lock and a no trespassing sign?

 

[JessLough]

I'm so glad me and my dogs were inside the house. Ugh. How on earth does someone expect to walk 6 dogs at once and have any kind of control at all? Much less when two are off leash? For that matter, how the heck are they picking up the poo? Three Leg dog's poo is still out there.

I just wanted to point out... it is VERY easy to walk 6 walks and have total control over them. You teach the dogs leash manners and it is not any more difficult than walking 2. Same with picking up poo... you pick it up the same way you pick it up when you have 1 dog.

 

[Romy]

We can't lock our gate because then the mailman won't be able to deliver the mail. Plus there are three tenants including us and they probably wouldn't be too thrilled about having to lock and unlock the gates to go in and out.

It's just weird. I'm not too worried about the dog doo at this point. I mean, yeah it's gross but I'll pick it up. Mostly I am glad that the dogs didn't manage to attack the neighbor and his poodle, didn't mangle each other, and that the lady walking them didn't get all chewed up when they were fighting. It really worries me that someone would think walking six dogs with two off leash was a good idea. Hopefully she learned her lesson and she'll never try it again.

 

[Romy]

I just wanted to point out... it is VERY easy to walk 6 walks and have total control over them. You teach the dogs leash manners and it is not any more difficult than walking 2. Same with picking up poo... you pick it up the same way you pick it up when you have 1 dog.

I'm glad you're able to handle it. This lady wasn't. I'm pretty sure I'd have a hard time too. Those dogs don't have leash manners, two weren't even on leash, then you throw in multiple dogs with DA/DR and it's a redirection nightmare.

Even with well behaved dogs I'd be afraid of off leash dogs charging us and something awful happening. I can handle a couple of dogs on leash while fending off a third. If I just had a big mob around me it'd be really hard to reel everybody in and scare off the interloper without... complications. lol.

 

[AmyTK9]

Yikes! Sounds like a train wreck to me! I can see if all dogs were well behaved. Like mentioned above, it's easy to walk 6 dogs if they have leash manners or a nice off leash heel. Even if dogs are coming up on you, it's usually pretty easy to defuse a fight just by having your dogs do a down. Again, training! Doesn't sound like this lady should be walking 6 dogs at all!

 

[Dekka]

Yikes! Sounds like a train wreck to me! I can see if all dogs were well behaved. Like mentioned above, it's easy to walk 6 dogs if they have leash manners or a nice off leash heel. Even if dogs are coming up on you, it's usually pretty easy to defuse a fight just by having your dogs do a down. Again, training! Doesn't sound like this lady should be walking 6 dogs at all!

Obviously you have never had to deal with a fight if just putting one dog in a down stops it. IME all that would do is make that dog very vulnerable to the other dogs.

 

[AliciaD]

Wow, I'm glad my "what the heck!?!" moment wasn't as bad as yours. I don't carry mace on me, but hearing about these situations on here really makes me think I should.

My moment consisted of walking by a van, in the middle of my dorms parking lot, it wasn't even in a space, just in the middle of the driving area, no driver, the car still running, with the windows rolled all the way down and a Maltese in the driver's seat.

I mean I think this is foolish, but I imagine this person was only going to be gone for a quick second. No. They were gone for 10 minutes (not counting the time before I noticed it).

I really wanted to just steal that van. Like, come on, you left the key in!