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Oh if only it was THAT easy ... if you have a dog from young and are able to do so then good for you but those of us who don't and have 'second-hand' pooches aren't always able to un-train certain habits completely and thus have to take measures to lessen their impact. I have one dog that does NOT like to perform on open grass such as a lawn but prefers to do her no 2 in the shrubs, this is due we believe to her being told off when young so 'hid' the evidence and no matter how much we've tried we cannot change this nor her trying to hide it by 'recycling' .Can't you? I've had two labradors. I trained both to only go on grass, and when on a lead to only go when given the appropriate command. When on a lead, they walked to heel.
To be perfectly honest I feel a bit sorry for your dogs if they are being so strictly 'controlled', our dogs enjoy sniffing etc when out so to stop them doing so would spoil their 'natural' enjoyment in this regard, fouling should I agree be done in a suitable place though.No sniffing, marking lamp posts, bushes or doing anything else until in a suitable location to be off lead when they were free to exercise and do what they wanted.
Agree that there are way too many people who don't know how to apply the 'brake' to these leads, nor how to restrict how much is let out in the first place, but we certainly wouldn't be without ours and use them where it isn't possible to let our dogs run free to so that they can have a little bit of control of their wanderings and do some 'natural' sniffing etc on their own terms. These leads have to be used sensibly and if in a busy area, be it people, vehicles etc, then they should be kept as short as possible (ie the same as a non-expanding lead).None of these ridiculous spooling leads (although I had one for training purposes, but never walking in public areas). Not rocket science to train dogs, but every time I walk up our high street these days, I have to negotiate dogs on extending leads running right across the footpath and owners totally oblivious to the lack of consideration for other people because they are too busy being led by their dogs rather than the other way round.
Perhaps dogs just find you irresistible! Seriously though if I was bitten by a dog the owner would feel the full force of whatever I could bring against them for failing to control it, assuming it wasn't just a pure accident (ie I was playing with it and got accidentally nipped which does happen) - if their dog caused damage to something of mine then the owner would be held liable to replace it. As for why dogs are let off lead in public places, unfortunately there are so few places that are not 'public' where dogs can be allowed to exercise that this is never going to be stopped and I don't think it should be if the owners are responsible ... and that's the problem, the idiotic owners who don't bother to keep an eye on their pooches and just 'expect' them to behave as they want them to.I love dogs, but not people who can't or won't control them. I've been bitten several times by dogs who were "just playing" according to owners who have no control over them when I've met them on walks in the countryside, and I'm well over £1K down in damage and repairs to sometimes expensive outdoor clothing that has been ripped by "only playing" dogs which the owners have no recall over (begging the question why they are off a lead at all in a public place).