I hope the dog’s owner will be severely fined.

Dogs in unincorporated Los Angeles County are required to be on leash or in a fenced yard. Altadena is part of unincorporated LA County.
People who take their dogs off-leash beyond their fenced yards are ignorant or stupid. Ignorance can be resolved by reading the above and minding the leash laws.
But,
Reasoning with stupid people is just … stupid.
They are dumber than their pets who act on instinct.
And those “well-trained, my woofie would never do that” dogs will revert to instinct when the stimulus is sufficient.
A friend who walked his dog on a leash, when he encountered an off-leash dog, usually had the following exchange:
My friend: “You really oughta keep your dog on a leash. And, it is the law.”
Idiot: “My dog is friendly and perfectly trained. It won’t hurt your dog.”
Then, just as loose dog starts to nose into the leashed dog,
My friend: “My dog isn’t.”

Begging these owners to leash their pets is as useless as calling the pet as the coyotes lure it back to their den.
Begging these owners to least their pets is as useless as wandering the Cobb Estate, calling for Fido who’s already been gone for a half-hour and is quite likely gone for eternity.
Please, encourage your friends and acquaintances to leash their dogs, prevent a tragedy.
Happy 4th to all.

I’m so tired of these so-called “animal lovers” who really only love the way they feel about themselves when they let their precious Fido “run free”.
Off-leash dogs terrorize local native wildlife, other people’s pets, and leave disgusting piles of poo wherever their owners aren’t looking. Even the “well-behaved” ones do this.
This is really sad. That poor deer,

My back yard is bordered by a hiking trail, with about 30 feet of empty space between my fence and the trail. When I got livestock (chickens and goats) I put up a hotwire fence with big yellow signs all over it saying “warning: electric fence” and a lightning bolt sign, just to make it clear. The only animals that have ever hit that fence are off-leash dogs. And in one case, the owner had the gall to come marching up to me and curse me out for ‘hurting’ her precious (gigantic) dog! It didn’t seem to matter to her at all that her dog was charging onto my property to kill my animals. I have also had people suggest that I put up a sign on the trail itself warning people that there is electric fence up ahead. It’s already illegal to walk your dog off-leash on that trail. There are big yellow signs all over the fence. The fence is not even very close to the trail, and is on my private property. But still dog owners seem to think that I should be responsible for keeping their dogs from charging my fence and getting a zap on the nose. (and it really is just a zap, I tested it on myself)

I have no objection at all to people who really do have their dogs under voice control. But my experience is that most of them do not.

This is so very sad. I really hope the owner is fined. Also, why did they choose to shoot, and not perform lethal injection? I keep my dogs leashed on hikes, because they’re prone to chasing all wildlife. I really wish more owners would follow the rules to help ensure safety and sustain the wildlife.

Dearest beloved appreciated and needed Proprietor…
(and all others who “have had [dogs with]the temperament to walk with me unleashed…”)
Your dogs are wonderful. Other dogs aren’t. If your dog is beyond leash length (six feet please, those of you who walk dogs on the 25′ retractable leashes are really just fishing with bait) you have lost the chance to protect and/or prevent. Dogs have instinct and we humans just can’t control when that instinct will kick in. The leash gives us a fighting chance both with our own beloved pet and against that idiot dog running loose.
So.. please, please, put those dogs on the short leash and don’t create an addition to my ever-growing dog tragedy list.
Happy 4th to all

Please follow up on this Tim, and let us know what legal repercussions this owner now faces. I hope it’s something meaningful. Not because I want to see the owner punished per se, but because I want this to serve as a cautionary tale to those who let uncontrolled dogs loose in the wilderness. Voice control is when a dog responds immediately to a single command; voice control is not having to call the dog ten, five, or even two times — that’s wishful thinking.

I DO want to see the owner punished. Without consequences the laws have no meaning.

Sign me on with Andy! I believe it is against the law to harass wildlife. If that poor deer wasn’t harassed, I don’t know what would constitute harassment .

About two months ago, an unleashed pitbull attacked a horse up by Gould Mesa. Owner nowhere in sight. In the ensuing kerfuffle, the rider fell off, and the dog came at the horse again but, this time, the horse kicked the dog square in the face. NOW the dog’s owner appears, wailing about the damage done to her precious pooch. The horse was laid up for three weeks—infected wounds. In an earlier post, I said that I wished someone would post pix of these dog owners. At least if we knew what they looked like, we could be defensive about their approach!

Why don’t the people requesting photos of the perpetrators post the photos instead of wishing or requesting that others do so?