Not to help catch a stray/escaped dog! Now it’s my fault it’s been injured apparently!

Absolutely.
I would be thinking wtf was she doing allowing some randomer have access to the back of her house for some dog🙄.
Not a chance would I do it.

@PennyApril54

Tbh I agree it is a bit much revisiting OP to have a go but I can understand them being a bit frantic the first time.
Why would they be frantic? The dog was trapped in the garden. There was no reason to frantically thump on the door and start demanding access.
A normal person would have knocked normally and asked and when told no, would have taken the option of waiting by the hole.

No, he was aggressive. He demonstrated behaviours that 100% would have made me refuse him entry. He sounded quite unbalanced. Or at least rude. That's a red flag abs any woman would be nuts to let someone waving red flags into their house

Imagine if OP had been harmed by this random stranger?
We'd all be reading about it and saying poor woman, but what a silly thing to do.

How would helping have stopped the dog escaping 2 weeks later and getting hit by a car?

The universe doesn't work like that.

'it's not like they wanted to stay in your front room.'

HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT? Seriously have all these 'poor dog of course I'd have let a strange man in my house, what's happened to kindness, you're not an animal lover blah blah' posters never heard of a man gaining entry to a house under false pretences and committing sexual assaults or violent crimes? Is OP strong enough to physically eject a man who sits on her sofa and says he's not going anywhere. Did she know he didn't have a knife in his pocket? Or was a violent drug addict? Do you people live down a well?

All that would have happened would be the dog would be returned to the owner. And then it wood have escaped again. And got hit by the car

I'm an animal lover and I wouldn't have let the man come through my house, garden and hang about for a few hours.

No matter how lovely the dog is.
There are boundaries you know.....

Is that a crime?

Absolutely NBU. There is no way I’d be allowing a stranger, a dog warden and a bloody random DOG to walk through my house. No, siree!

I’m a little on the fence but do get where OP is coming from - what does this guy’s guilt tripping really achieve when the owner should have done more to keep the dog in to begin with? Saying this as a dog lover but I would get really annoyed at someone else’s dog getting loose and coming into my garden so often.
Admittedly I’d probably have let them come through the house but I can see why a lot of people, including OP, wouldn’t.

😅

Perhaps the OP is getting a lot of flack on here because she's committed the ultimate crime on MN of answering the door!😱

She answered because the knocking was "frantic"
🙄

Hard to ignore someone banging on your door.

It was inconveniencing OP.
She was online and working.

Can you just leave YOUR work whenever you like?

I'm not sure if I understand this right. So a dog keeps escaping from NDN and going in OP's garden through a hole. Random bloke sees it in OP's garden and knocks on her door saying can he come into house? Garden? to wait for dog warden. She says no, he can wait outside gap in fence. Two weeks later random man comes back ranting saying that because she said no, the dog was hit and it's all her fault. Or was it her fault that she'd blocked gap so that dog couldn't get into garden so ran into road instead? Has dog just been hit or was it two weeks ago and man took two weeks to decide to be a prick again?

Anyway the man is batshit and as usual would've acted completely differently if a man had answered the door.

I answer the door to my postie when I work from home, sometimes I even go for a pee and my work is very important to me, its how I pay my bills. Doing those things does not make it any less important. Having randoms traipsing through your house and demanding to sit in your garden with someone else's dog is a much bigger imposition then taking mail from my postwomen. If he had that kind of time on his hands, he could have waited by the fence. I do wonder if he managed to find their owners of the dog and make time in his day to go round and bang and yell at their door, or is it just the OP he has a problem with? She made the right call not letting someone so entitled and aggressive into her home.

Tbh I agree it is a bit much revisiting OP to have a go but I can understand them being a bit frantic the first time.

I would have let them in the garden out of compassion for the dog. It really doesn't hurt to be kind and it's not like they wanted to stay in your front room.

This.

Yes it really is time that we stopped keeping (other) animals as fashion accessories, isn't it?

Well she answered the door so probably not that important!🙄

Do you mean the owner wasn't an animal lover?

Yes I agree.

But that's not what you meant, is it?

Cats get run over all the time but nobody says everyone else has to take responsibility for making sure they don't.

If you have a dog, you are responsible for it and to keep it under control. It isn't anyone else's fault if it gets lost or injured unless they deliberately hurt it.

And working from home is work. If the OP had been in a workplace whether office, school, shop etc she wouldn't have been there.

Two strangers when I'm in the middle of work?
Yes, I would care...