Good post, good advice. I agree completely.
I've had more than a few people tease me about being so protective of my dogs. I always have them on leashes or carry them. Do I trust them? Yes. Have I trained them? Yes. But it still has always worried me, and NOTHING is ever 100 percent foolproff.
I think it stems from my childhood dog getting killed by a car right in front of me. This was in the 1970's, and all of us kids and all of our dogs ran around the neighborhood. No one put their dog on a leash. This little dog had been our roaming companion for years and years, with never an incident. Until the one that killed him.
Better safe than sorry. Always.
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
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