Do You Lock Your Pet Up If Someone Comes Over?

Lee

Lee

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Not everyone likes our fur babies, I get that. I would like to have a small get together for a few neighbors and there is one woman who says she is afraid of cats, she hates them. Shudders if she sees one on the street. Yet when she wanted to sell tickets for her grand she had no problem knocking on the door.

If I do have this small party I would have to invite her, no two ways about it. Block cop they call her and you do not want to get on her bad side.

I hate the thought of locking up Riley for a few hours, he is/was a problem child and it has taken almost 2 years to get him where he is today. I do not need a back trek to bad behavior. If a door is closed he wants on the other side of it. And fear might push him over the edge.

How do you handle it going to a pet home if you are not a pet person? My hubby is not a dog person, when we visit a couple with a little dog that dog zeroes in on him....he handles it by telling the dog over and over.....go see Lee
 
To be honest I would not invite the block cop lady. I care more about my pets than those who come over. Who cares what she will say if not invited. I only invite those who are pet lovers or at least tolerant of my fur and feather babies. You could just tell her that you can't lock your cat up and leave it at that.
 
I don't get why some people feel they should be allowed to dictate how things go when visiting. I say she should be free to shudder, and be met with understanding, every time she sees the cat. Cats usually keep their distance from people they don't know. As adults, we all endure things we don't like with a certain amount of grace. If it gets to be too much for her she can always leave. Just my opinion.
 
More annoying is people who bring their dogs with them when visiting, and most of the time all they talk about is the bloody dog, and when we are eating the dog just sits there staring at us, my daughter is the worst she always brings her TWO dogs with her, and can`t bear the thought if we told them when visiting us PLEASE leave your dogs at home. Probably would never see them again!!
Also, have to close all internal doors to other rooms because the last time my daughter came over one of them piddled on the carpet in the bedroom!! Yes, I do love dogs generally we had a beautiful Sheltie for 12 yrs, maybe it is the Dog owners who are the problem?
 
Was thinking about this just the other day! Was feeling guilty for the time former neighbors came over and brought their big, lively doggie, whom I loved, but............locked my cat in the bathroom during visit. Although I loved this dog I was wrong to allow him in. I was feeling very guilty about scaring my precious cat.

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This was 25 years ago, and I'm still feeling guilty!
 
No, I don't lock my pet up if someone is coming over. Of course, he is a rabbit and doesn't annoy anyone. But over the years I have had many different types of pets and can only think of one or two times of locking them up in a bedroom. At that time I had two cats and my then husband's cousin was visiting and she was very allergic. So of course, one of them just wanted to get on her lap and followed her around. So I put them in a bedroom which is where they usually slept during the day anyway.
 
Depends the purpose of the visit... as a home-visiting nurse, I always appreciated if people would at least 'contain' their animals while I was doing an assessment. Being barked at, jumped on, having my derriere smelled while bending over to give care, or having animals chew on oxygen tubing/stethoscope/etc or try to climb into my tote was distracting and/or annoying. Of course, there was always the opportunity to be bit by dogs that (understandably) were 'protecting' their owner. (And it's usually the *little* dogs that are the worst at this)
 
I have a 3 pound senior chihuahua and I always crate her when we have people over just because she’s so small that she could easily get stepped on or sat on. But everyone loves her so she spends most of her time on people’s laps which is her favorite place to be. 😂

The other two dogs are out but they’re both not intrusive, one because he’s a senior and the other because even though he’s just a puppy he’s innately quiet and mannerly. He’s definitely the most un-puppy-like puppy I’ve ever had!

As far as the OP’s question, I wouldn’t put my animals away unless they were unruly and obnoxious.

Invite the woman and leave it to her to decide whether or not she wants to come. If she truly is afraid of cats, it’s something she’s been dealing with already and she’ll either ask you if you have cats before she RSVP’s or she’ll just come and then deal with it when she gets there if she sees you have one.

Don’t try and second guess her situation. Just leave it to her.
 
My dog is nine months old, close to full grown, but still acts like a pup. He's getting better about jumping up, but his excitement in unmaintainable, and I have to continually warn him about it. He responds to this and obeys, but soon forgets. My friends are usually dog lovers, and sometimes they bring their dogs, which is good, because the dogs play with each other and ignore us, but I still can't visit very well because I have to keep track of my dog constantly or in his excitement, he will tend to forget boundaries. I would put him in his kennel if he was obviously bothering someone.

We hike on a trail system that is used by mountain bikers, and maybe once out of every ten hikes, we encounter a biker or bike party, and he goes nuts, never in an attack mode; He just wants to swarm people with excitement. I'm happy to say he is getting better, but we have a long ways to go before I would consider his behavior acceptable. He hikes in a harness, with a short leash (one foot long) held down to the harness by rubber bands so that it doesn't flop around and distract him. He will always come to me when I call (he seems to have mastered that one command better than any dog I have owned), and I can grab the leash when we encounter people, but then the "war" begins until the bikers pass. Some bikers are happy to see him and talk to him as they slow down, others are completely silent.
 
My house ... my rules. No animal has ever been locked up for visitors .... usually my dog likes to entertain people with his antics.
If Maintenance needs to come in and get up on a ladder or something, I will keep my dog in another room.
 
I would do exactly what you feel is appropriate regarding the animal. If the cat is not a pest but may casually roam through the house and not beg for attention, then I would not lock the cat up. If on the other hand, the cat is overly friendly and may jump up on an uninvited lap or rub against the legs of visitors, I would confine the cat. It is your home. Guests may accept an invitation to you home without placing conditions on the invitation or reject the invitation with a polite "No Thank You" without explanation.
 
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Over the years I've had a couple of dogs that had to be put away if company was coming by for safety reasons.

I will say this though....I have friends who's dogs are absolutly untrained and undisciplined nusciences, they NEED to be put away but never are.
 
Lee said:
How do you handle it going to a pet home if you are not a pet person? My hubby is not a dog person, when we visit a couple with a little dog that dog zeroes in on him....he handles it by telling the dog over and over.....go see Lee
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I'll be nice and just stick to the question.

I used to put up with (try to ignore) people's dogs, as long as they didn't do anything terrible. But now less and less.

A few years ago, I moved out of an apartment, largely because of the neighbor's dog.

I also refrained from visiting a friend who warned me to phone first so she could control the dogs; otherwise they'd attack me. She was always inviting me over, but there was no way I was going over there.

When I was about 30, I did door-to-door deliveries. There was always the possibility of encountering a dog. But I accepted it as a danger of the job. Sometimes you just have to get on with it. I do remember skipping at least one house because of a dog.
 

Do You Lock Your Pet Up If Someone Comes Over?​


It's ten years or more since I had a pet, but one time, some friends came visiting, saw Jess, and said, "Lock your dog in the coal shed, we don't want to catch her fleas."

"I'll tell you what", I told them, "Take your pick, I'll lock you two in the coal shed so, Jess,, won't catch your fleas, or, you can both sod off home, now."
 
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