Message: DO NOT attempt to pet the dogs = DO NOT SHOW THE PROPERTY!

That would be like saying, "Snakes can be in or out of their cages." Sellers need to bone up to the fact that selling their house is an inconvenience and the easier they make it for buyers, the sooner the ordeal will be over.

Not putting the welcome mat are they....

Thank you for the re-blog Charita, I sure appreciate that!

Hi Charita, this should be a warning to all agents NOT to show that home. My client's safety always come first. I have heard some horror stories from other agents in my office, whose clients have been bitten by dogs in the homes while viewing them. No owner can guarantee what their pets will do with any strangers.

Charita, I agree....I think I would skip this property too. 

So true but I see this all the time.  Just not sure why a Seller would leave large, biting dogs in a house that strangers will be coming in to????

Charita; Whenever I call to make an appointment and they say that a dog is within.. I always counter with "Don't worry  - I will let my client enter before me.." we always smile... but then hellooooooo?  I have never had an issue.. but once I entered a house, and there was a baby's gate propped against a doorway... wasn't locked just propped,,and a pit bull was on the other side.. very docile, loving and sweet.. but the visual did nothing to disarm the nerves!

Charita, I was showing a house recently with a big dog in the house, the renter of the property knew we were going to show the house, but did not put the dog in the yard before we got there.  The buyer refused to go in, but they still wanted to see the house.  I called the listing agent and she came to take the dog out to the backyard. 

Listing agent needs to educate the owner/renter whoever lives in the house.  No matter how friendly the pets may seem, sometimes they behave very differently in front of strangers.  Pet owners should at least consider the safety of their own pets, too.