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Ripley had some blood work done today to check her thyroid. Decided to take the pups to the park afterwards to do some focus work and then stack practice for hubby and to send pics to her breeder since she likes to see how they are looking. She said Ripley looks fabulous! I agree
Then, that moment when a mom, her 5 kids but most importantly their offleash mastiff type dog shows up at the park... look at Ripley's eye.
Stack practice was over here... dog had not yet spotted Ripley. You can see us from the parking lot. Owner seemed unconcerned that her dog was offleash and that we were there. We quickly collared her up just in time before the dog made a B line for them both.
The mom was chatting away. The kids seemed like they were in charge of the dog? With a squeaky ball. I saw the dog had a cheap ecollar on. I didn't want to say anything so the dog wouldn't spot us so I remained quiet while we were putting a more substantial collar on Ripley instead of her show lead. It finally did see us and I immediately yelled at them from 50' away "PLEASE LEASH YOUR DOG!!!" They tried squeaking the ball. Lady said her dogs name once, failing miserably to recall her dog. As the dog gets closer Ripley is now ready to defend and is going ballistic. I yell, "SHES NOT FRIENDLY" in a last attempt as the lady doesn't seem too concerned??? Now she runs back to her car (I'm guessing to grab the remote to the collar). The dog is finally within reach and hubby lunges out at it, spooks it and it runs away. The lady never reappeared and all left without a word.
So glad it wasn't anything worse and the dog was a chicken
. Annoyed that I have to use my last resort saying, "she's not friendly" to defend my leashed dog as quickly as possible. See, she IS friendly. 
If they showed up and the kids wanted to come pet Ripley, she would have loved that. She was just at the vets office surrounded by other dogs, didn't care.Although she was watching the dog meandering around, she didn't care until it locked eyes with her and ran at her and in her mind, at us. Annoyed that other people's irresponsibility could ruin all the hard work I've put into her. She's around other strange dogs all the time at shows, trials, classes... doesn't bat an eye. Unruly or rude dogs simply piss her off. She's doing what she was bred to do. This was a small park so I honestly didn't expect to run into anyone, especially not an offleash dog with zero recall. 
Then, that moment when a mom, her 5 kids but most importantly their offleash mastiff type dog shows up at the park... look at Ripley's eye.
Stack practice was over here... dog had not yet spotted Ripley. You can see us from the parking lot. Owner seemed unconcerned that her dog was offleash and that we were there. We quickly collared her up just in time before the dog made a B line for them both.
The mom was chatting away. The kids seemed like they were in charge of the dog? With a squeaky ball. I saw the dog had a cheap ecollar on. I didn't want to say anything so the dog wouldn't spot us so I remained quiet while we were putting a more substantial collar on Ripley instead of her show lead. It finally did see us and I immediately yelled at them from 50' away "PLEASE LEASH YOUR DOG!!!" They tried squeaking the ball. Lady said her dogs name once, failing miserably to recall her dog. As the dog gets closer Ripley is now ready to defend and is going ballistic. I yell, "SHES NOT FRIENDLY" in a last attempt as the lady doesn't seem too concerned??? Now she runs back to her car (I'm guessing to grab the remote to the collar). The dog is finally within reach and hubby lunges out at it, spooks it and it runs away. The lady never reappeared and all left without a word.
So glad it wasn't anything worse and the dog was a chicken
. Annoyed that I have to use my last resort saying, "she's not friendly" to defend my leashed dog as quickly as possible. See, she IS friendly. If they showed up and the kids wanted to come pet Ripley, she would have loved that. She was just at the vets office surrounded by other dogs, didn't care.Although she was watching the dog meandering around, she didn't care until it locked eyes with her and ran at her and in her mind, at us. Annoyed that other people's irresponsibility could ruin all the hard work I've put into her. She's around other strange dogs all the time at shows, trials, classes... doesn't bat an eye. Unruly or rude dogs simply piss her off. She's doing what she was bred to do. This was a small park so I honestly didn't expect to run into anyone, especially not an offleash dog with zero recall. 
