I agree also about being particular about where we take her. We no longer walk her on our street because we have so many neighbors that feel that because we live in the country they can leave their dog off leash even though the leash laws apply here also. We have had one neighbor fined because he won't keep his dog confined. It cost him 250 dollars.

However, it also isn't fair to her or to us not to be able to take her for a walk in a local park ON LEASH, or down a friend's neighborhood street, once again ON LEASH because of other irresponsible dog owners.

Really we haven't had a problem with her because we are very cautious. However, after a year of living with her I know that if the scenerio occured that I described I can pretty much predict the outcome. It did occur with a friend of mine. The owner of the Boston was very lucky that Tesh is such a submissive, timid dog.

I was also making a point in relation to another thread about praying for a poodle that was attacked by a husky. I think we should all pray for the health of the poodle. Having your dog injured no matter the circumstance just sucks. However, I was seeing some threads starting to blame the husky. I think without knowing the whole situation there shouldn't be blame involved at all. And knowing the breed characteristics of both poodles and huskies they were probably being themselves. Sometimes it is just a sad situation.

I just thought this might be a good discussion and would bring up some interesting points that we all should think about and many of us do. So far it has been a great discussion.

Denyce