Just Speaking Out

A Dog Looking so calm and Serene and Pet Peeves.

     The dog often is considered mans best friend and is almost always part of some ones family.

      

    My pet peeve is with pet owners who tie their dogs up at the local the convenience store. Not just one person but I counted six and a Boa, and yes a snake was brought there also. The dog in the photograph is cute as can be, and I am a pet owner myself. 

   The woman who came to the store with dog number 7 with her companion seeing eye dog had to hold her dog and could not enter for over a half hour. A week prior I had watched a dog break free from its leash, in front of the same store, and run into traffic at 7.30 a.m. in the morning rush hour traffic the dog did not survive crossing the street.

    The owner of a pet is responsible for the pet and the pets actions, if a child or person is bit, the owner is sued and hopefully for the person, that there are not severe injuries. A stranger can often affect an animal in a different way, no matter how well the dog is trained. The temperatures are hot right now, and the dog is left outside in a bed of a hot truck, or on a hot sidewalk, the hot pavement, or inside a car with out food and water. When a pet is loved, the owner is responsible, and the pet fully knows. 

   Please remember animal shelters are full, and it is not always best to tie your dog up outside a store, when a disabled person with their companion dog can not even enter the store,or someone can become bitten, or even leave them to get lose and run into traffic. The store is not the local dog park and I am sure there are laws about taking a Boa inside. Just because you love your pet, and believe me I love mine too, does not mean every one else does or that your pet will like them.

  

   So try not peeve your pet and show the animal the same love and respect it gives you.