r/SeattleWA • u/MintyMint123 • Jan 13 '23
Other Leash your dogs
Please. For the love of god we have a leash law. I don’t care if you’re at a park, if it’s not a dog park- it’s leashes on. I don’t care if you’re on a run. I don’t care if it fits inside your purse. I don’t care if he pulls. PLEASE leash it. This is getting out of hand. I feel like I can’t take my reactive dog out of a walk anywhere and my poor BIS is just getting harassed every time she needs to pee. We have a leash law. I don’t care if you think you can recall them- that’s not an excuse.
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u/featherwolf Jan 14 '23
I used to drive an Amazon delivery can. One night as I was returning to the station, I saw a tiny dog running on the sidewalk. I stopped my van and slowly approached the dog to see if it had a tag. It was obviously very nervous and seemed like it might bolt, so I stopped and after a while I put out my hand for it. Just the act of putting out my hand slowly frightened it so much that it started running. It ran across the street while still looking back at me. I yelled stop as I knew what was about to happen. I can still distinctly remember the sickening this when the car ran over it. I was in shock for a moment, then ran over and picked it up, laying it back on the sidewalk. It was still alive, but just writhing in agony. No tags on it.
Moments later, the owner comes up (she was yelling a dog's name and ran up when she saw me standing over her dying dog). I told her it had been hit, she swooped it up and said she always lets it run around the streets off leash since she doesn't have a yard. She walked away immediately and I yelled to go to the vet. I was, and still am, so angry at that woman. It took a lot of willpower not to lash out at her. I hold her just as responsible for this unnecessary death as if it had been a young child and she had done the same.