When the pizza guy gets into his car, the dog escapes,
What are your thoughts? Who's at fault here?
The owner of the dog for not maintaining a better hold, control over the dog. Conceivably a dog owner is supposed to be in control over their animal at any-given time. Even a dog charging full blast should stop in it's tracks by the owner when called to... or at least turn around and return when called. People own dogs and make them part of the family but rarely (in my experience) train them to be instantly obedient when necessary. This is with ANY dog, large or small. Constantly working with the animal for even 15-20 minutes
each day reinforces to the animal that YOU are in charge of it and not the other way around.
I've known dogs that obey even when I (total stranger walking by the house and the animal is running towards me to bark (maybe bite) stop when I stop and point at it saying NO! SIT! and they stop and sit (hesitantly) ... so conditioned to obey that command. THAT to me is a well trained dog and a dog worth having. People seem to forget that they are predatory mammals and have predatory instincts... even the smallest ones have that ingrained genetic need to hunt, attack and kill.
The dog's owner should've had it's little mutt trained well enough to SIT at the door wide-open and it's yap shut while visitors/delivery are standing outside the thresh-hold. The dog should be made to feel that it's doing it's job guarding it's den and it's pack but as it's been taught to do. Watchful, wary, silent and ready should that thresh-hold be crossed without consent of the Alpha-male/female.
The owner of the dog lost control and the mutt got in the way of the tires, being small and hard to see (and hear if the pizza guy's stereo is blasting (which isn't illegal... unless it's obnoxiously loud)).
The story reminds me of when I stopped in to see an old friend who was a pizza delivery driver for Pizza Hut... I walked into the resturant feeling good that I'm going to see him because it's been a while. The manager approached me and before I knew it I was this irate customer who replied to the "Can I help you?"...
Me: "Yeah, one of your drivers ran over my cat!"
Manager: (confused and taken aback) "excuse me?"
Me: (slowly as if talking to a dummy) One of your drivers ran over my cat!
Manager: "Are you sure it was one of ours?"
Me: (a little more excited) "yeah it was one of yours it had the Pizza Hut sign on the roof!"
Manager: "uh, can you describe the vehicle sir?"
Me: (slightly exasperated) "It was a brown... piece of crap Dodge Ram Charger with big wheels.The driver was a tall lanky guy with glasses, he delivered a pizza to our place then backed out of our driveway and our cat ran out in front of it and he just ran it over... my daughter saw the whole thing and now she's at home crying her eyes out ! I want to talk to this driver... now!
Manager: "Uh, okay well, umm... that is one of our drivers alright... let me go in the back and get him."
Me: "You go do that!"
The manager went on back... my friend came out and saw me and laughed his *** off with me busting up right with him because I couldn't hold it anymore... I apologized to the manager heavily and shook his hand for being a good sport about it all. My friend told me later that the manager went to the back found him in the break room and the first thing he said was "Whatever you do... do NOT leave the store!" :lol: "Why?" "some guy is pissed out there saying you ran over his cat!"
Sigh... okay... back to seriousness of the situation... The owner was responsible for it all.
