When a stranger ties their dog to your bike. - eviltoast
  • MrGG@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Is this Toronto? This looks a lot like Toronto. If you’re from Toronto you should know that there is a city by-law that states if a cute dog is tied to your bike and you take a picture of it and submit it to Lemmy that you then legally get to keep the dog. Just FYI.

    • waz@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Not sure if you are suggesting op gets a dog free of cost or that they should set the dog free, but I think both options are acceptable.

    • pedz@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Sure, free until you have to feed it and pay vet bills.

      • paddirn@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Just borrow it for the day, then drop it off at the animal shelter for the owner to go get. Whatever time they thought they were going to save by tying it to your bike, they’ll lose having to go in to the shelter. If they don’t go for it, then somebody who actually wants the dog can get it.

  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    What is more infuriating is the dog’s leash doesn’t look like it even has enough length for the dog to lie down.

      • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        I mean, it’s right next to the road, so the idea is probably to keep the dog from walking into traffic.

        But that’s a bit of short minded as they introduce the heat of the pavement, inability for the dog to lay down and control their temperature while also blocking someone elses bike. And this is all added onto the fact that you really shouldn’t tie your dog to stuff and leave them for a while anywhere in fairly populated areas.

        The dog owner seriously sucks.

  • BlueLineBae@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    I don’t understand people that tie up their dogs like this. They’re just asking for the dog to be taken. And I don’t know about you, but I assume people who steal dogs don’t steal them to re-home them. So why do people do this? Don’t you love your dog? Wouldn’t you want to prevent this entirely preventable situation if you love them? Of course, this particular photo has a whole other element of absent mindedness, so I guess they’re just plain stupid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      A lot of times, the owner just got told to not bring the dog into wherever they were going.

      Rather than coming back, they see no problem Tying up the dog.

      Call animal control. crappy dog owners need a wake up call. (Especially in this case. That dog looks close to strangling itself,)

      The worst I’ve seen was people going to a baseball game. I was working security for an event lot, they showed up an hour before the game, which probably ran 3 hours or so, and they were a couple hours later coming back.

      Sure, they cracked the window! But it was high-nineties with high humidity. And the dogs were crates in the back and covered with heavy blankets. It took some convincing for them to get permission to open it up (the measurable interior was just below the threshold, but with the blankets… well the temp in the crate was 110F.)

      Sweetest puppies you’ve ever met, got to sit with them while animal control filed out the paper work.

      When they came back they were … not entirely sober and pissed enough the cops had to come back out. Their justification was that they wanted to go to a ball game and couldn’t leave them at home because separation anxiety…

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      1 year ago

      Absentmindedness is a very mild way of saying that they’re almost strangling the dog. The poor guy has no room to move. This dog would be coming home with me.

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      1 year ago

      I used to tie my ugly mutt up in front of the corner market while I grab a few things. Never to someone’s bike of course.

      I do not take such a risk with my expensive purebred.

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          1 year ago

          I didn’t own both dogs at the same time, but 100% serious. What’s the problem?

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            You don’t see an issue in handling a dog poorly, because, as you put it, it’s an “ugly mutt” and then go ahead and tell us how much better you treat an animal because it was more expensive?

            You really shouldn’t be allowed to own a dog or any animal.

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          Why? Because I know which dog might get stolen?

          Should I have denied the mutt walks because of what people might think? Or should I endanger the purebred out of some strange sense of fairness?

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            1 year ago

            Without the additional context it easily sounds like you don’t give a shit what happens to some mutt.

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        1 year ago

        I see this all the time, don’t think it’s such a big deal also, sometimes I don’t understand social network people

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    1 year ago

    Wasn’t this a reddit post like…a week ago? That’s the mildly infuriating part, is people regurgitating content from there.

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    1 year ago

    When life gives you especially cute doggos, you keep them good floofers. That dogs looking at you, asking with their eyes “you’re seeing this right? This is all the time for me. If I take a nap I will dies.”

    So much stress in that poor adorable face.