• Admiral Patrick
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    1679 months ago

    OTOH, free dog. And you’d probably give it a better life than the person that tied it there.

  • @[email protected]
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    1369 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      759 months 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        99 months 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1249 months 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        159 months 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    459 months 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
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      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…

    • Dojan
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      319 months 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

          • MaggiWuerze
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            49 months ago

            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.

        • @[email protected]
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          -29 months ago

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

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

    • Drusas
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      Okay? A lot of us aren’t on Reddit anymore. We still like to see content.

    • Bleeping Lobster
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      669 months ago

      Yup. Just chucked it into google image search.

      TBH I’m not against reposting content from reddit, we need more content here… content is content. I would prefer if people were more clear that they’re not the OP though!

    • @[email protected]
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      539 months ago

      Those of us that left don’t give a shit.

      Stop straddling the fence and the problem goes away.

      • naticus
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        89 months ago

        Agreed, uninstall one of them and don’t look back. I have moments I need some tech reference that I saved over the years on Reddit, but I don’t go looking for new content.

        • @[email protected]
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          -209 months ago

          Uninstall Reddit? Ew. You’re one of those mobile users aren’t you… There’s no ‘uninstalling’ Reddit. It’s a website.

          • @[email protected]
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            119 months ago

            Reddit on my phone was great. Until they blocked third party apps. Apollo was cleaner, faster and better than even old.reddit. And nu reddit on the web is slow and bloated just like their first party app. Besides, why should I pull out my laptop or sit down on my PC to access Reddit or Lemmy for that matter?

          • @[email protected]
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            A website? Ew. You’re one of those people taking a laptop on your bathroom breaks, aren’t you… 😛

    • @[email protected]
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      89 months ago

      So the title of the post should be “When a stranger ties their dog to another stranger’s bike.”

    • SanguinePar
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      79 months ago

      Just because it was on Reddit, doesn’t mean that OP is regurgitating it from there. Maybe they saw it somewhere else.

  • test1 "blob"
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    299 months ago

    In Spain it’s now illegal to leave your dog leashed outdoors alone.

  • TinyPizza
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    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.