Argh!
I live in a "rural" area and everyone here seems to be completely ignorant that there's other people on the face of this planet. Everyone here just lets their dogs run around without being on a leash or being fenced in. People move here and say "oh, this is the country, I can do whatever I want".
It's really annoying, because it's really just a suburb but with a ton of trees and you're allowed to have farm animals. When you can see your neighbor's house from your house, you're not in the country imho.
I am basically limited to bringing my dog for a "walk" in our driveway because if I take a left out of my driveway a big fat doggie runs up and starts barking at us, and my dog hates other dogs so I have to pick her up, hold my hand over her muzzle to keep her quite, and go back into our driveway while this dog is glaring and growling at us. If I take a right out of the driveway, I have a really really angry and territorial dog to deal with, once I almost had to pick up a big rock and throw it at her but luckily the owners finally came outside and took her away, then if I head further up that way, there's two retrievers to deal with, while they're all super friendly if I am alone, they're not friendly with my dog.
Then, even further up the road there's this other dog who once came out and terrorized my dog, my baby niece in the stroller, and myself I had to keep kicking the dog in the face to stop it from biting us as my puppy is screaming like a human and the baby giving me this "wtf? I am going to cry in a minute or so" look; someone had to pull over and help get the dog away. I've had problems with it coming out and chasing me and my dog before, and the owners are full aware of this but they continue to let it run around. Other people have had problems with this dog too, even if they're by themselves without walking a dog he comes out and barks and chases people.
I work at a law firm, and we have quite a number of dog bite cases from the area all due to people not fencing or leashing their dogs. these dogs just come out and attack people and other dogs. But no one will even entertain the idea of a leash law because they're all about their rural independence. While I am all for doing whatever you want, there are certain limits when your behaviors start affecting other peoples lives in a negative way.
Seriously.... get a fence, or stop being lazy and get up and walk the dog every time it needs to go pee.
So, that's my rant for today, and now I am going to take my dog for our exciting walk in the driveway. Woohoo!
Edit: Changed "lease" to "leash" in the subject heading
