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My last girlfriend picked me up in San Diego and we drove 6 hours to Tucson after we had been apart for about a month. During the drive with her two dogs she to

My last girlfriend picked me up in San Diego and we drove 6 hours to Tucson after we had been apart for about a month. During the drive with her two dogs she told me while I was away there was an incident where her dog mauled a smaller dog and then bit the owner's face when she bent over to rescue her small dog. Her take away was pride as she was smart enough to just run off with her dog implying an idiot like me would have stayed and taken responsibility. My response was there are two options, your dog either needs to be destroyed or never off leash again and we didn't discuss further. Then we stopped somewhere to take a break and she let her dogs run out of the car off leash. When my jaw dropped, she replied, "it's no problem, I don't see anyone around". So it's worse than getting "hostile" or "violent" as you mentioned. Many of these people never learn. You could sue them into oblivion and the take away would be they are the victim of an unjust world.

sebmellen 5y ago
Did that factor into the “last” prefix?
adriancr 5y ago
The other party can follow her to figure out where she lives or some car license plate, call the police and report incident. Once police get involved she will get fined and there is a risk that dogs get euthanised in some countries after biting someone... There is also a risk of someone hurting her dogs due to adrenaline...
marvin 5y ago
Don't know about the US, but in my jurisdiction, the dog would be killed by the police if it could be proved that it had bitten a human. There's very few exceptions to these rulings.
- anonAndOn 5y ago
  It is the same in the US, thus why she picked up the dog and ran.
- dathinab 5y ago
  Same in Germany. Through sadly this can even apply in situations where it was reasonable for the Dog to bite (e.g. in self defense or to defense their holder).
- trhway 5y ago
  >the dog would be killed by the police if it could be proved that it had bitten a human and here lies the main issue - the dog gets punished for what is mainly the owner's fault (it is somewhat similar to destroying the gun in case of killing while letting the killer go free). I'm generally against corporal punishment, and this is one of the few exceptions where i think corporal punishment would be very useful - any damage inflicted by your dog as a result of your gross negligence should be inflicted as a punishment on you.
nielsbot 5y ago
OT, but you dodged a figurative bullet
- throwaway803453 5y ago
  The real PSA here is that sex can be insanely powerful. Had we not separated for a month, I would have married her since there would have been no preceding window of clarity. After that 6hr drive I ended the relationship and did not accept her friends with benefits counter-offer.
dathinab 5y ago
As a side note: Do not ever go into between two dogs fighting, even if both dogs know you and are normally super team. It's not just a risk for you but can also make the dogs involved more aggressive. Furthermore most dogs (which do not have mental issues or are badly wrongly trained) normally won't kill or majorly injure the other dog but mainly make it submit. But if you step in thinks can still escalate. Lastly the problem are not dogs of the leach, but people not training their dogs properly (and often not understanding/ignoring that they don't train their dog properly). Or people buying dogs which are bread (and potentially even trained) to be super aggressive. Which IMHO is a no-go and requires the dog to muzzled nearly always outside of private properties (through ONLY for this dogs bread to be aggressive, e.g. for dog fighting). I have been in areas where dogs are allowed to be of the leach frequently and is generally not a problem, most dog holders living around where I live do not use a leach when walking their dogs in the evening and it's not a problem. EDIT: Wrt. the main thread, if you dog is properly trained you can have it walk alongside you without a leach even with birds close by and it won't run to the birds. A lot of dogs I meat are good but not hat good trained so while there really is no reason to put them on the leach in the city or common German forest areas you would put them on the leach if you enter a area with e.g. ground breading birds.
- trhway 5y ago
  when it comes to dogs there are a lot of misinformation and contradictory unverified advises floating around >normally won't kill or majorly injure the other dog but mainly make it submit some are doing it by biting and sinking their teeth deep into the back of the neck of the victim. So it does make sense to step in before that happens, as well as to step in to stop that when that is already going on (i've met owners who had that happen to their dogs, and couple times i stepped in right before that was going to happen to my dog)
  - dathinab 5y ago
    Please consult a professional dog trainer. (Which I am not!) --- >that happen to their dogs It's a pretty normal part of dogs inter-social behaviour, as you should now the back of the neck of dogs is used by parent dogs to discipline (and sometimes carry) their pubs. In turn it's also used to make dogs submit in social fights between them. Which is a normal/natural part of there social interaction. And yes there are aggressive and dangers dogs, too. Still if you step in you are likely increasing the aggression the other dog has against your dog. Which if it repeatedly happens with the same dogs could make the situation problematic if you at some point are not fast enough to step in.

sebmellen 5y ago

Did that factor into the “last” prefix?

adriancr 5y ago

The other party can follow her to figure out where she lives or some car license plate, call the police and report incident. Once police get involved she will get fined and there is a risk that dogs get euthanised in some countries after biting someone... There is also a risk of someone hurting her dogs due to adrenaline...

marvin 5y ago

Don't know about the US, but in my jurisdiction, the dog would be killed by the police if it could be proved that it had bitten a human. There's very few exceptions to these rulings.

anonAndOn 5y ago
It is the same in the US, thus why she picked up the dog and ran.
dathinab 5y ago
Same in Germany. Through sadly this can even apply in situations where it was reasonable for the Dog to bite (e.g. in self defense or to defense their holder).
trhway 5y ago
>the dog would be killed by the police if it could be proved that it had bitten a human and here lies the main issue - the dog gets punished for what is mainly the owner's fault (it is somewhat similar to destroying the gun in case of killing while letting the killer go free). I'm generally against corporal punishment, and this is one of the few exceptions where i think corporal punishment would be very useful - any damage inflicted by your dog as a result of your gross negligence should be inflicted as a punishment on you.

nielsbot 5y ago

OT, but you dodged a figurative bullet

throwaway803453 5y ago
The real PSA here is that sex can be insanely powerful. Had we not separated for a month, I would have married her since there would have been no preceding window of clarity. After that 6hr drive I ended the relationship and did not accept her friends with benefits counter-offer.

dathinab 5y ago

As a side note: Do not ever go into between two dogs fighting, even if both dogs know you and are normally super team. It's not just a risk for you but can also make the dogs involved more aggressive. Furthermore most dogs (which do not have mental issues or are badly wrongly trained) normally won't kill or majorly injure the other dog but mainly make it submit. But if you step in thinks can still escalate. Lastly the problem are not dogs of the leach, but people not training their dogs properly (and often not understanding/ignoring that they don't train their dog properly). Or people buying dogs which are bread (and potentially even trained) to be super aggressive. Which IMHO is a no-go and requires the dog to muzzled nearly always outside of private properties (through ONLY for this dogs bread to be aggressive, e.g. for dog fighting). I have been in areas where dogs are allowed to be of the leach frequently and is generally not a problem, most dog holders living around where I live do not use a leach when walking their dogs in the evening and it's not a problem. EDIT: Wrt. the main thread, if you dog is properly trained you can have it walk alongside you without a leach even with birds close by and it won't run to the birds. A lot of dogs I meat are good but not hat good trained so while there really is no reason to put them on the leach in the city or common German forest areas you would put them on the leach if you enter a area with e.g. ground breading birds.

trhway 5y ago
when it comes to dogs there are a lot of misinformation and contradictory unverified advises floating around >normally won't kill or majorly injure the other dog but mainly make it submit some are doing it by biting and sinking their teeth deep into the back of the neck of the victim. So it does make sense to step in before that happens, as well as to step in to stop that when that is already going on (i've met owners who had that happen to their dogs, and couple times i stepped in right before that was going to happen to my dog)
- dathinab 5y ago
  Please consult a professional dog trainer. (Which I am not!) --- >that happen to their dogs It's a pretty normal part of dogs inter-social behaviour, as you should now the back of the neck of dogs is used by parent dogs to discipline (and sometimes carry) their pubs. In turn it's also used to make dogs submit in social fights between them. Which is a normal/natural part of there social interaction. And yes there are aggressive and dangers dogs, too. Still if you step in you are likely increasing the aggression the other dog has against your dog. Which if it repeatedly happens with the same dogs could make the situation problematic if you at some point are not fast enough to step in.