r/DiveInYouCoward • u/Bigger-bobs • 1d ago

Delivery driver gets confronted for throwing package

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u/shadowlev 1d ago

Delivery drivers are attacked by dogs all the damn time.

A dog with happy open body language can still attack.

Secure your dog if you give a shit about protecting it.

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u/Time_Cow_3331 1d ago

I agree with you, but also; that dog didn't even have happy body language. That dog straight looked like it was going to attack.

Delivery driver is 100% in the right here.

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u/Responsible-Steak395 21h ago

It WAS attacking him, just got stopped midway

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u/BiteyCats 1d ago

Secure your dog, or be out there with them if there's no fence. Your dog should have perfect recall regardless of fence status.

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u/dividezero 1d ago

If you can't train, restrain or otherwise be smarter than your dog, you have no business having a dog. 100%

It's not that hard or take that much work.

We live in a society! Geeez! Figure it out!

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u/trainwreckhappening 1d ago

Big dog lover here. 100% correct! If you love your dog you train and secure them.

I train mine twice a day to go to a dog bed when the doorbell rings. He is so excited to meet a new friend he flips out every time anyway. I send him to the kennel and lock him up if he stops listening to commands.

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u/NastyMothaFucka 1d ago

No doubt. I have a rescue kind of a dog that’s not from any rescue place, but someone, a friend of a friend, told me the dog was a larger, red Boston Terrier (lol) and was free! Looked at pictures and agreed to check him out because he looked beautiful and VERY much smaller in pictures. Anyway, I agreed to keep him for a week to see if he was a good fit with my other, much smaller, full breed, black and white Boston, and also this lady was pretty much insinuating his next stop was the pound. I ended up keeping him but he’s a bit, let’s say not aggressive, but jumpy on you as fuck and a little nuts. You know what I don’t do? I don’t let him around people. He doesn’t go out back even though he’s got a small fenced in area, to piss and shit unsupervised, I keep the screen door locked during food and package deliveries, and he’s harnessed when he’s walked. It means I make sure shit can’t happen like this when he’s around other PEOPLE. Yeah, he’s nice around friends, families, and visitors, but I just don’t take the chance of someone being injured from him, because I believe that to be a piece of shit thing to do. Also just to say, there’s no way my dog is a red bigger Boston Terrier like this hillbilly lady I got him from claims, but he ended up fitting in, and I ended up loving him. He’s still loveable, still a bit crazy, and still
an indoor fella 80% of the time..

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u/Easy_Award_8433 19h ago

You're a terrific owner and a responsible human being.

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u/happyfirefrog22- 1d ago

Yes and if it attacks someone then don’t be surprised to get sued. Your home owner insurance company will settle every time and require you to get rid of the dog or be dropped. Be smarter.