Why do people jump to conclusions

[wildthing]

I hate when people jump to conclusions because you have a big dog!! Watched in shock as a parked car pulled away killing a cat that was sleeping under it. The poor thing was spasming out of control in the road so i had to wait before i could pull it out the road and onto the path ( didnt want to watch it get squashed any more and at least the owners could find it in one piece ..... ) a car driver pulls up throws abuse at me thinking my dog had mauled it!!!!!! then drove down the road telling some passers by my dog had killed it... F~*@ing W@"*ers. At least the passers by had the decency to ask what had happened rather then jumping to conclusions.My dogs live with a cat which follows me on the dog walks. RIP POOR THING :''( . I feel awful and its not my cat

[Jessica]

That's awful - It makes me mad when the dogs get accused for nothing other than looking the way they do...

We had it the other night in the Vets with Butch.... when we were sat in the waiting room we may as well be sat there with a dismembered leg and wand we would have had more welcoming glances the other people look nothing short of discusted at him.

Then the vet was petrified of him and wouldn't even touch him and went on to comment on his scars on his leg from when he got attacked as a puppy she said she couldn't examine him as was too muscly and wasn't worth trying.....You couldn't get a friendlier kinder dog if you tried Very frustrating....

[relic]

I get it all of the time being tared with the same brush as tramps :-/i had one old man a few years ago shouting up the street after my about picking up dog shxt, he soon shut up when i pulled a bag of shxt out of my pocket ;D sort heir big lad with a big bull type dog they just think that i am a thug, until we have a little chat about dogs then they are trying to run from me ;D

[hogdog]

I had an old woman with a snarling, growling lurcher say to me as she walked past, "she's only growling because she's scared, she's not viscious like your dogs". My dogs were behaving immaculately (for a change) and she'd never met me or my dogs before so I've no idea where she got that from...it's just something you expect when you have dogs like these. I've had this sort of dog for over twenty years and it's always been the same, I don't see it getting any better, especially as some breeds are illegal and so 'they must be dangerous', I've heard that more than once.

[wildthing]

I was approached by the owner of this poor cat yesterday thanking me for pulling the cat out of the road. I have never met them before ( but i walk the same route most days to go to my friends with either of my two dogs). They had saw it happen from their bedroom and was too distraught to come out straight away to it as they could see it dying in the road. They collected him and buried it in their back garden after i had left.

[doggirl]

i have the same problem with my pit x. if they have their leads & haltis on people are pulling the kids/dogs out of the way as if the dogs are going to eat them, bearing in mind that my oldest dog is a registered therapet whom visits 2 care homes for the elderly and has pensioners taking him for a walk. but if i put a bandanna or a wee hoodie on them all i hear "oh look at those dogs there cute can i pet them?"my dogs have all the toy breeds in my local park as their little friends then can you imagine the looks we get when they see these 2 big pit x walking around with a pack of 13 wee dogs and the pit x are the best behaved dogs out of the whole pack. it makes me proud of them and the breed.