On Thursday, October 29, 2020 at 12:15:15 PM UTC, Simon Mason wrote:
Luca Patrono replied to Mark_1973_ | 122 posts | 8 min ago
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Care to highlight a particular example that you think is unfair? I've yet to see a generalization of all dog owners as being irresponsible and lawbreaking for example, nor suggestions that they are subhuman, consume a load of money for infrastructure that's better spent on cars, need to pay insurance and tax before they're allowed to walk their dogs, etc...

Fair comment is made about the behaviour of a subset of dog owners. I ride a lot of shared use paths and there are plenty of people who either have fast-moving or unpredictable dogs off a lead in violation of towpath rules about control (for example, a woman on a local towpath has a damn Border Collie that will charge you and attempt to herd you from substantial distance) or use the infernal extendable leads so that they're on one side of the towpath and the dog is way in front on the other side, so you're totally blocked until they recall the dog - _if_ they do, because some of them interpret "pedestrians have priority" as extending to their dogs. Such behaviour on a shared use path is irresponsible and selfish.

Dog owners have the potential to be just as entitled as some cyclists, car drivers, pedestrians etc.