Heard it? Too many times! And exactly from those on dog and recreation forums who advocate chaos in this area. Their logic: whoever doesn't like my dog (often read: whoever isn't thrilled that my dog does whatever it pleases with them) doesn't like dogs in general. And whoever doesn't like dogs then doesn't like all animals and whoever doesn't like animals doesn't like people. Cheap propaganda!
In reality, there are good owners and consequently good dogs. They even predominate. Those 5-10% bad and irresponsible owners give a bad name to everyone.
I try to be patient. But how to be patient with an owner whose dog attacks you and he just grins or even yells at you if you run and jump, and if you defend yourself against the dog he might even attack you.
And when some psycho walks two unleashed boxers on Šmarna gora, running freely back and forth on the path, and you ask him to leash them, he starts insulting and abusing you?
And when a dog barks at you while you're walking in the WWI trenches near Svinjak and you're just waiting for it to jump into the trench on your head, when you come out it charges at you again and luckily you hit it nicely with pepper spray and calm it down, then the psycho says to you: 'I can spray you too', and his companion yells at you too.
You're walking on Rožnik and someone with a dog comes, sends it at you and grins: "Yeah, it bites otherwise!"
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and countless more examples...
And there are more and more such psychos in our forests, mountains, walking paths, bike trails,.. And this doesn't happen only to me but I read about it everywhere and these are the few who dare to say it out loud. Here katjuša2 gave some examples, on other forums I've heard tons of such stories. Some don't even dare to go to e.g. the most critical Ljubljana spots on topogledno (Šmarna gora, PST, Golovec, Rožnik,...).
Because some recharge their batteries and heal complexes with their dogs and the shit they do. Just like some drive cars and make shit on the roads, some beat their families, some do even worse...
Times are what they are, but we're not guilty, those who want to release our anxieties, frustrations and daily troubles in a positive way e.g. with exercise in nature, if someone has an annoying boss, nasty wife, lost job,...