Somebody is walking by and spitting on my dog
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I agree that it probably isn't someone spitting on the dog but if it is and your response is, so what it's a dog I really hope you don't have a dog or any other pets.
This reminds of the time that someone threw a piece of gum through my mother-in-law's car window on a super hot day and she got it on the bottom of her shoe and all over the floor mat. There is no way she stepped on gum and got in that car, not with the widespread and well known problem of gum throwing gangs around here.
Oh man I just read this thread and it’s a classic! Yeah, obviously it’s the dogs spit. Zero question about that.
I’ll give the original poster a pass since it’s clear it’s their first puppy. Live and learn. But all the responses from the torch wielding mob screaming for vigilante justice against the imaginary sociopathic dog spitter? Cmon, that’s just too damn funny! Message boards at their finest.
I’ll give the original poster a pass since it’s clear it’s their first puppy. Live and learn. But all the responses from the torch wielding mob screaming for vigilante justice against the imaginary sociopathic dog spitter? Cmon, that’s just too damn funny! Message boards at their finest.
Any update from the OP? Did you catch this person or decide it was the dog's own slobber?
Hasn’t happened again yet. I know some are convinced she’s slobbering on herself, but I’ll honestly be pretty surprised if that’s the case. My guess is that it’s the neighborhood tweaker.
I live on the West Coast. It’s not uncommon to see some middle aged dude walking down the street with his shirt off talking to himself around here.
Must be another CF poster. Saw this thread and started feeling the heat.
I agree that a constant barking dog is crazy annoying and their owner is really disrespectful of their neighborhood.
That said, dogs are going to bark sometimes. My yard is fenced in with a 4 ft wooden picket fence I built specifically for my dogs. I would love for it to be taller, but since my house is on a corner lot, that is all the higher I could get the inspector to allow. There is no backyard we could put them in due to the lot our house sits on. When we hear them bark, we immediately call them inside. I am always outside with them in the spring, summer, and fall and if they are barking, I will go over to where they are and make them sit until whatever has them worked up has moved on. We have tried training, bark collars, etc, but to no avail.
A big part of the problem is that one of my neighbors, who is really a fantastic neighbor, does a lot of work on motorcycles, 4-wheelers, etc. Which, by itself is not a problem at all. But whenever he test drives whatever it is he is working on, it never fails that he floors it past my house in low gear driving up the RPMs so much that the windows in my house rattle. It scares the **** out of my dogs and has resulted in them being on guard when out in the yard.
Both are fantastic on a leash, and respond to verbal commands pretty well - the St. Bernard is kind of bullheaded, and ignores my wife, but responds very well to me.
I welcome any ideas CF may have.
It's HOK type behavior so that narrows the suspects.
Oddly, it still hasn’t happened again yet after happening several times over the course of a month or so.
One thing I didn’t mention in the original post is that there’s a guy across the street who goes out on his porch and smokes. He was outside the last time it happened (the night I made the post) and I yelled across the street when I was getting my dog to ask, “Hey, did you happen to see somebody walk by and spit on my dog?”
He hesitated for a second and just said “no”, so I responded “Well, it’s happened several times lately”. My fiancée really didn’t think it was him and I didn’t really either (there are other, more likely suspects in the neighborhood), but two and a half weeks later my dog hasn’t been spit on once. Sure makes me wonder.
This guy hesitated because he thinks you are crazy.
