Yesterday I was birding in a wildlife refuge and this huge dog without a leash and no owner in sight ran up to me and started barking at me, and getting closer and closer. Literally thought it was going to pounce. It had a collar, but no owner in sight. I’m not afraid of dogs, but I am afraid of any large animal that’s angry and has the capacity to knock me over. After about five minutes of this dog growling at me and me trying to calm it down, its owner finally showed up, and was like……“oh haha I thought he was yelling at an animal.” As if it would have been normal and fine for the dog to attack the wildlife.
It’s a wildlife refuge. There are endangered species that live there. Dogs are required to be leashed at the park…you know why?? Precisely because dogs like to go after birds and other small creatures.
This isn’t even the first time I’ve dealt with unleashed dogs….
I was at a beach, collecting seashells and birding, when a huge pitbull ran up to me growling. Thankfully it didn’t attack and just sniffed my bag, but the owner was just a speck in the horizon, didn’t care that their dog was running around doing god knows what. The dog could have gone after the wildlife, too.
People letting their cats roam free outdoors 🤝 People that let their dogs run around without a leash:
Endangering their pet, the environment, and other people with their stupid choices
Keep your dog on a fucking leash
It’s not just wildlife. It’s other people dogs too.
I dogsat for a coworker who had a not-always-friendly-to-other-dogs dog. She was also 20 pounds and easy to carry if needed, but sometimes she was fine with other dogs and sometimes she chose violence.
I took Doggo on walks several times over the week I watched her. Always in places dogs are required to be on leash. Always during times we were less likely to run into other people walking dogs.
In one such place, a park near where the coworker lived, we stopped to sit on a bench (Doggo sat up next to me for love) for a few minutes. Out of nowhere a large pitbull bounded up to us.
I immediately scooped up Doggo, stood, and turned to face the pibble. While the pibble was clearly just excited and happy, the owner was a significant distance away.
Owner once he got to us, with a big grin: Oh don’t worry she’s friendly! She loves other dogs too!
Me, holding a clearly upset dog: Mine isn;t and she doesn’t.
The look on his face made it clear that other dogs not being friendly wasn’t even a thought he had when he took the leash, that was in his hand, off his dog. Again in a park with numerous “Keep your dog leashed!” signs.
As I walked by with a now growling dog in my arms, I told him he needed to keep his dog on a leash - like the park required. I carried her until we were out of sight and she was calm.
If I hadn’t responded like I did, there could have been major problems from not only me and the dog I was walking, but also the other dog and owner.
Not everyone has dog-friendly (or even people-friendly) dogs. Give unknown dogs space and for God’s sake:
Keep your dog on a fucking leash.
It’s midnight here, so happy disability pride month to my fellow disableds, the chronically ill, and also to the temporarily abled.
If your activism doesn’t include disability, you’re sure as fuck going to wish it did.
Nothing about us without us ♿👊
write fanfic that three people in the world will read, because those three people are going to be fucking pleased that it exists
what the fuck was wrong with people that Labyrinth was originally a flop. How could they take any aspect of it so for granted. How could they fucking do that to Jim Henson. Newspapers were calling it boring and even ugly. I want to go back in time and beat their asses.
good evening to every single asexual who has been pressured into doing things they weren’t comfortable for them because of fear of rejection or harm if their asexual identity wasn’t ‘taken well’, and every single asexual who had someone say they could 'fix’ them, and every single asexual whose identity has been disrespected and trampled on in the LGBTQ community, and every single asexual who didn’t have the courage to say no, and every single asexual who thought it just wasn’t worth it to explain being ace to someone so instead just put up with uncomfortable things, and every single asexual who has been made to feel like their identity is simply 'innocent’ and 'pure’, and every single asexual who is sick and fucking tired of it all.
I believe you.
Getting into the Magnus Archives fandom before you finish the series is wild because they’ve all made a collective decision to pretend the cast loves each other and it’s all just an office drama, supported by copious fanfic and fanart and things. And then you get to the actual content and it’s like,, most of them genuinely hate each other. Not even in a cute way, they genuinely want each other to die
REBLOG THIS TO GIVE THE PERSON YOU REBLOGGED THIS FROM A GOLD STAR BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN STELLAR TODAY AND THEY DESERVE IT ⭐️
