Too Many Dogs

[Jacqui Harvey]

Well perhaps a wee donation to A.A. To help with there neutering programme?

[nickim]

We travel 5 weeks today and really looking forward to returning to Calis (last time was 2014). I am concerned after reading this thread as we have 3 children - 1 who is scared of dogs. We are staying at Lissa Links and will have to cross at the Beach Road junction to get to the promenade (I think) and I am worried about 'packs of dogs' that people have mentioned. Can someone tell me if the dog situation is that bad? I was followed last time by 1 dog and that was bad enough!

[Ally B]

Nickim  I have never seen the dogs bother people ,if you just ignore them they will ignore you.If you pet them they will look for more. I dont think you should worry about them.

[Anne]

People are scaremongering here.
Let's get things into perspective folks.  There are no huge packs of dogs running wild around the resort.
Yes, you may see three of four together on the street corner but they are mostly laying having a snooze or if they do approach you it is only to walk by your side for a while.  Yes, the odd one chases a scooter speeding along the road, yes, the odd one has a bark at you but on the whole they don't bother you at all.
Leave them along and they won't bother you

[Scunner]

I've only really ever seen dangerous dogs of the owned type in Calis. Nearly all the street dogs I recall over the many years have been fairly submissive and docile with humans.

[pompeylee]

In laws currently in calis & have just said 5 dogs followed them home but just ignored them & certainly no Barking or aggressiveness shown from the dogs (maybe from the mother in law), think the lesson is to just ignore & certainly do not feed if you want to be left alone or are scared of dogs.

[Jacqui Harvey]

I would say we made the mistake of going into Cafe Pazzar one Sunday morning, they have a couple of dogs that were lying around. Another very young dog came in and the dogs that seem to belong to the place immediatley attacked it.  The waiter came out and separated them.   One place I would not return to.
We saw one pack of about 4 dogs near Baba Firin one day, one was definitely one they have in the Cafe Pazzar  and they were fighting.
We saw another group of dogs on the prom one night. So in one month we saw two packs of about 4 dogs.  There are not packs of dogs roaming everywhere.   I think the ones that are roaming around are not strays.

[Scunner]

But Jacqui the point surely is that we see dogs defending their territorial space against other dogs, whereas the concern in the topic is about the risk of unruly dogs attacking people?

[marina]

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Nickim  I have never seen the dogs bother people ,if you just ignore them they will ignore you.If you pet them they will look for more. I dont think you should worry about them.

Just because you have never seen them bother people Ally B doesn't mean it doesn't happen!  If you read my earlier post on this you'll see that the dog which attacked my husband was actually chained up and looked like it was asleep.  We would never try to pet a strange dog because they can be so unpredictable. 
Having said that, I'm not trying to scare people here, it's the only time anything like that has happened to us in 14 years of coming to Calis.  There have always been dogs wandering around but not really in 'packs'. Hopefully what happened to OH was pretty rare.

[Jacqui Harvey]

But Jacqui the point surely is that we see dogs defending their territorial space against other dogs, whereas the concern in the topic is about the risk of unruly dogs attacking people?

Well I would say the dogs in the Cafe Pazzar were unruly and was glad to see the Waiter splitting them up an also he did give one of the Cafe's dogs a slap.   The dogs in the street outside Baba Firin were also unruly and fighting with each other.  I would not have gone near either situations.