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

YANBU.

The person who was so worried could have spent the time waiting for it to come out if they were that concerned. The dog left your garden and you prevented it from getting back in again.

What happened between that time and where the dog was is not on you nor your business. The dog could have escaped again regardless if you had allowed entry into your home for someone to get it.

You were obviously under no obligation but they weren’t even asking for your help. Just to be allowed into your garden.
I think it’s quite shit you said no.

Yanbu. I probably would have allowed it, but i totally get why others wouldn't want a stranger trapsing through their house and staying in the garden for ages. If the person was that fussed then they could have sat at the gap in your fence to make sure the dog couldn't leave your garden, or they could have gone and got a lead from somewhere and asked you to leash the dog then walk it through your house to the person waiting outside

I think it's two slightly separate issues.

Yes, maybe you could have allowed them into your garden. Although I can totally understand why you didn't. I'd maybe have allowed it in the vain hope that the dog would be permanently removed from the owner and therefore I wouldn't have to deal with the bloody thing anymore (although I doubt that would actually happen unless they couldn't find the owner and no one came forward).

But the fact you didn't doesn't make the accident two weeks later your fault at all. The blame for that is solely on the bad owner.

Are people missing that the OP was AT WORK?

I work from home at the moment and absolutely couldn't drop everything for a random dog whose owners can't control it (and I have two myself!).

They sound awful, OP.

Honestly OP give no more thought to it.

I suspect this so called helpful person would have also shouted at you had they been injured or bitten in attempting to catch the dog.

I also strongly suspect they didn't shout at the actual owner.

I’d be the same. I wouldn’t want a strange man (or woman) in my garden for 2 hours with a dog that’s not mine, especially being at home and I have young DC.

Exactly what I think!

YABU. Yes owners are idiots but you could have helped. I’d have felt awful not helping and it getting injured. Who cares if a stranger and warden come through your house!!

I feel this is what’s wrong with society… this not my problem attitude. What happened to being kind and helpful? No the dog is not your responsibility and no it’s not your fault it got injured but you could have helped that person and therefore the dog to get the care it needed!

It was unreasonable of the person to show up after the event and guilt-trip you, but I think you should have let them in to try and get hold of the dog safely.

It's not your fault that the dog escaped however it might have been helpful to let it remain contained in your garden for a short while.

People are so unreasonable! What if you were unwell or vulnerable or working on something super sensitive. Of course you don't have to have strangers traipsing through your house. The owners are at fault!

Two weeks ago someone saw it run into my garden and they were banging on the door . I answered (I was WFH and busy) and they were demanding to be allowed into the garden to keep hold of the dog till the warden could get there.

So not the owner? Someone wanting to hold it until a dog warden got there?

You're being blamed by someone who isn't the owner, who thinks you should have assisted with the dog warden?

I don't see how that would have prevented anything. The dog warden (if the even showed up) would surely have just handed the dog back to the owner with a mild rebuke, which would probably have been ignored.

Laughable to suggest this is your fault. It's the fault of a shit dog owner.

Obviously it isn’t your fault but could you have blocked the gap the dog was getting in with a temporary fix and left it in the garden until the dog warden came? That’s what k would have done rather than let a random person in or just leaving the dog to get out again.

YANBU, but not very pleasant about it and I'm glad you aren't my neighbour (though why couldn't they coax back through the hole it went in?).

Not unreasonable at all. I love how people are blaming you and not the crap owners who allowed their dog to get out multiple times!

If they were asking for access to put the dog on lead and take it out of your garden I think yabu but to just stay with the dog for an unknown amount of time and then turning up shouting abuse weeks after the fact? You were right not to let them stay clearly if that’s their temperament

Why didn't you either let the warden catch the dog or report the dog? It was in danger and dangerous if it was running in the road.

They’re idiots and I feel sorry for the dog having such dumb owners. It’s their fault it gets hurt and they have no business taking out their guilt on you.

Maybe now they have had to part with money to fix ddog they might look after it better...