To think that dogs shouldn't be in toilets?

I didn’t especially love dogs at the beginning of the thread ( have always liked them perfectly well) but I now want to identify as an ardent dog lover for fear of being grouped with the haters and their ilk!

I’ve done it, when there aren’t specific signs. Not for a shower, just a wee. I also do it regularly at a local park as there are dog thefts there, and there aren’t signs saying I can’t.

I genuinely can’t see what the e issue is apart from it being “against the rules”

That poster did obviously mean they’re not special in the sense of breaking the rules. In the same way you might say (or think!) to someone blatantly disregarding the rules “what makes you so special?”.

My dog is very special to me, but I still wouldn’t take him in somewhere that said ‘no dogs’ in the same way that I wouldn’t decide to waltz into an adults only restaurant with toddler DD in tow.

Do you struggle with social skills? Eg being polite, considerate, sensitive to others’ needs? Is being around dogs thus easier for you maybe?

This thread has some wonderful examples of why I prefer dogs to most people.

Nope. It is because they are considerate people in their real lives and struggle with understanding selfish owners who allow their dirty dogs to go up to strangers in cafes, toilets etc with the tedious refrain of, ‘oh he’s just being friendly’. It’s not irrational to challenge people for being selfish and inconsiderate.

It is the dog-obsessives who lose the ability to think rationally about polite human behaviour.

"Probably"

Your dog isn't special to anyone but you. It needs to follow the rules just like every other dog.

God forbid someone takes their dog to a dog friendly place. Shock bloody horror

Cos the sort of people who bother to post about how much they hate people’s dogs and how they needn’t think the dog is special and how entitled and inadequate their owners are for caring about their dog tend not to be calm or rational people? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Girl dogs in female loos are ok!

It’s such a shame for decent owners like you. Your reasonable and considerate voices get drowned out by the selfish minority/majority.

Yes, on threads about dogs in public indoor places. Have a good hard think why that might be. Go on 😏

I probably would. But I certainly wouldn’t tell anyone their dog wasn’t special.

Just because your dog is special to you, it doesn't mean it's special to anyone else.

If the sign says "no dogs " hopefully you would respect that.

So so true.

I would rather be friends with them than someone who can’t leave their home without their dog and who inflicts their pet onto everyone in cafes, shops and toilets!

Actually, that does make you an entitled dog owner. If you ignore a sign that says "no dogs" then believing you don't need to follow it is incredibly entitled.

Dog owners like you are the reason signs need to be up in the first place. Although I'm not suprised you wouldn't follow the rule.

If there was a rule that said "no under 3s" I wouldn't bring my 2 year old, even if it wasn't obvious why I couldn't.

Dogs will get out of a tent. Its the only way they can be controlled when the owner leaves the tent

Hard to imagine what a truly dog phobic person would be doing in a dog unfriendly toilet within a dog friendly campsite …

It always amazes me on mumsnet that users cannot see outside their own experiences. Not everyone has a partner, family or friends to support them. I have been a single mum since my daughter was 2.

On the occasion I used service station loos in the middle of a 360mile journey to see my mum she was about 4, not old enough to be left alone herself, certainly not in charge of a dog. Locking a dog in a car when the temperature outside is over 30c is a death sentence. And I had chosen to travel in the evening when it should have been cooler. I had to take the dog because my ex let me down about looking after him last minute.

When I camp it is me and my daughter which is why I don’t take the dog. Yesterday I took him into an otherwise empty public toilet because I wanted to go for a long walk with my daughter and dog and all the places I could perhaps have gone for a wild wee were chest high in nettles. I probably shouldn’t have taken the dog at all as, shock horror, dog free people had to pass us on the narrow path! Obviously I am a terrible human being to have just brought dog, and daughter, to heel and waited by the edge of the path.

Do you not understand sarcasm?
That was the point it’s a total non event.

How does someone bringing their dog into a toilet cubicle with them actually affect you?

The only person who sounds rude and entitled here is you.

Yep, this pretty much sums it up!

Is this particular instance you are obviously not being unreasonable. If the toilet block has signs up saying ‘no dogs’ then you don’t take dogs in there. You leave them with someone else, tie them up outside or leave them in your tent or car, and if you can’t do any of those things then you probably shouldn’t have brought your dog on holiday.

I wouldn’t have any issue with dogs being in toilets generally though, so long as they’re well behaved. There are always dogs in the toilets of our closest NT property!

All this defence of dogs is annoying. This campsite specifies no dogs so that's what is allowed and what dog free campers are expecting.

If the sign says No dogs, then don't take your dog in the bog.