Is that an essential requirement listed in the application form?
Come on!
Royal mail should sue people who let their dogs bite the postmen.
They must be losing a lot of money with sickness considering their numbers.
Responsible people keep their dogs under control.
Stupid people let their dog do whatever they want and should pay the consequences.
We are getting almost daily reports of serious assaults by dogs often in public places.
When people invite someone to their home and it is an invite when a builder/professional/friend comes around to the house, the owner
should be a good host and if their guest does not like, feel safe with dog/s around them, any half sensible person would remove the risk.
The stench, the whiff or the stench is there and I've said before I can tell if people previously owned a dog or moved into a house that had dogs and not changed the carpets etc.
Some owners dogs are sensible and they may slowly walk up and then you say a verbal hi, or pat on the head they go back to their corner or other room but many are unpredictable, hence the attacks you hear about
I've yet to met a dog owner that will admit their home has a whiff of dog never mind a stench.
The postman's action IMO was a knee-jerk reaction. Imagine if that dog and it was not exactly small. What if the bite got infected or was worse, why should the postie suffer.
I've given examples where I've met people with dogs when they open the front door dog runs into the rod but often worries the person knocking the door.
Sadly, even friends and inc other family who do not own a dog when visiting a family/friends home with dog/s will not often tell them their house stinks and is full of dog hairs. It's much much worse if the dog owners have carpets and more than one little dog or mid/lar sized dog.
Dogs are a mans best friend but it is often the man that lets them down by not giving them a daily wash and not having carpets, soft furnishings in their home and not airing the house daily or grooming the dog daily.
