a true rant.

Speaking of dogs, I need to vent. Today we took Montana, our crazy Dal, for her mostly daily walk. We walk her on a leash, which is looped around my waist, and she doesn't pull, and walks calmly between Bob and me. We go up to the green space, a walkway which has well spaced garbage container in which responsible people can deposit their doggie's do-do's (responsible people appear to be few and far between as there is often many turds of varying size along the path) Oh I get it! If your dog doesn't CRAP directly ON THE PATH, you don't have to pick it up??? Interesting concept, but stupid and selfish, as "off the beaten path crap" still STINKS and attracts flies. Anyhow, I digress. This isn't what my rant is about.
My real irritation in life is people who think their dog is TOO GOOD to be taken out on a leash. For some reason, they don't have to abide to common dog-people courtesy that says unless you are in a off-leash park (which Armstrong apparently LACKS!) your dog should be on a leash when out and about. So here we are walking along, and at the end of the green space is a bench, upon which sits a man, an aging hippie, who hasn't been told the sixties had long gone, with an off-leash Border Collie lying idly behind him in the shade of the bench. Of course, when we walk by and say a polite hello, the dog rushes out to sniff Montana to see whether SHE has his tail(see previous post) Montana, of course, was not willing to give up hers (as she is quite attached to it)and took offense, pulling her butt away from his inquiring nose. He then returned the offense and snarled, at which point Mr. Hippie intervened and calmly called his dog back to him, amusingly commenting," Scrappy pair, aren't they" Well, no, Asshole, YOUR dog is scrappy, our dog is merely trying to protect what is truly hers. And if your dog was on a friggin' leash, we wouldn't have this issue. Of course we being two of the politest Canadians on the planet, we calmly smiled, then walked away, grumbling under our breath...
You people who think it is okay to walk your dog off leash, this is for you: PPPFFFFTH! When you walk by us with your dog enjoying freedom, do you not think, that your dog is saying to my dog, "nyah nyah na nyah na!, you're on a leash, you pussy!" Do you not think it might be justified for my dog to take offense, and snarl a bit, and if your dog is of the rat-like variety, try to eat it??? And then it of course becomes MY dog's fault...
Enough of this rant. did I make myself quite clear on my feelings about this topic???