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

Im not the irresponsible dog owner so it’s not my fault

You could have helped and chose not to.

It's not about being terrified of every man that's melodramatic. it's about having common sense that actually letting a complete stranger in your house when there are viable alternatives is probably not a sensible thing to do.

Through my house yes. I'm not terrified of every man I meet.

YES I KNOW.

Any employer who had my respect would have let me stop working for 5-10 minutes to attend to a loose animal.

This is outing but I once insisted my brand new MD stop the car on our way to a sales conference so I could shepherd a loose horse off the A road so that they didn't cause and get into an accident.

As a not-horsey person he found it amusing and was genuinely quite impressed, telling everybody about it during his intro speech while I went very red 😳

I'm wracking my brains to think of a single employer in my employment history who would have had a problem with 10 minutes to deal with a loose dog. There is one past employer who I think would have been awful about it, and they were horrendous employers for a multitude of reasons.

It would have taken nothing for him to have waited on the other side of the gate like OP suggested and waited for the dog warden who didn’t show up!

So you just let random strangers into your home?

The amount of posters who would do that on this thread is honestly terrifying!

I absolutely agree. It would have taken nothing for you to let someone else sit in your garden with an obviously terrified animal.

I’ve been sucked into helping a baby hedgehog by someone who knocked on my door leading to one of those 1980s style adventure movie scenarios like flight of the navigator or adventures in baby sitting, leading me to wish that I’d never answered the door, and agree it’s kind to help. BUT OP could have been in a very dangerous situation letting a random guy into the house, I’ve read stories or even know some real ones where people are duped, so lay off her, she did the correct thing. I would always help anyone knocking if I can, but would never let them in even if it was an innocent looking girl, but would gladly call for help. He could have waited for the dog to emerge then followed it, but nobody should let strangers in whoever you are or whatever sex you are.

SHE WAS WORKING!

Every option involved OP letting an unknown man into her house, except the option of him waiting the other side of the gap for the dog to come back - which the man rejected. If he was that bothered he could have done that but no, only OP letting him in her house would do. Red flag. She did try to help, she made an alternative suggestion he didn't want to do.

None of this was her fault, and not letting an unknown man into her house was sensible.

Not being s dog owner or lover, I don’t have spare dogs leads lying around the house and I wouldn’t feel comfortable approaching and leashing a dog that I don’t know

You do you they ey!

Well she may have checked but she's not mentioned.

However, the fact that nobody knows is why you can't claim there were lots of other options available. You don't have the necessary information.

The choices in this scenario weren't limited to letting the random man through her house and to stay in her garden for hours while missing her dsl duties and becoming a victim of crime or just saying no.

The most sensible suggestion of all, the random man staying by hole in hedge to stop mad dog escaping was proposed by the OP and instantly dismissed by random man. God knows why like I said thick as pig shit.

No-one knows as OP didn't check or attempt anything.

You've made the claim about multiple choices before, but they generally involve you making assumptions. You still don't know what state the dog was in, how capable OP is, whether she had a lead or anything suitable available, what the consequences of her stopping work would be. It's bullshitting.

The choices in this scenario weren't limited to letting the random man through her house and to stay in her garden for hours while missing her dsl duties and becoming a victim of crime or just saying no.

Lots of options in-between. They may have worked or may not have. But she didn't even try to help.

That doesn't follow. The dog doing it all the time and it being well known in the area means it's an excellent excuse for anyone round there who might want to see inside someone's house for nefarious purposes.

Because am pretty sure OP said the dog does it all the time so not likely to be a burglary!!

What a good thing everyone keeps spare dog leads in the house to deal with other people's wandering pets.

Isn't it just!

Who cares if a stranger and warden come through your house!!

Honestly I'm starting to think that some of you are just on a wind up now.

How were they supposed to know it wasn't a distraction burglary? Would you just let a stranger into your house/garden while you are working in another room?

Presumably the person banging on the door could have waited by the gap the dog went in by until it came out again.

For all those advising to put the dog on a lead, it sounds as if the OP is not a dog owner, so highly unlikely to have a dog's lead in the first place. She gave a sensible suggestion to the man. At no point did she need to do any more.

What a good thing everyone keeps spare dog leads in the house to deal with other people's wandering pets.

I can't imagine not helping in this scenario, and yes I work from home too. Put the dog on a lead, hand it over to the people who were looking for it, job done.

You do you, I guess. Glad you're not my neighbour though.

Not the dog's fault they have a crap owner.

I'd have helped the dog out in that situation. You surely could have negotiated with the man that you'd rather he took the dog away with him to wait for dog warden, or spent 5 minutes with him in your garden fixing the way the dog got in so that the dog would be contained until dog warden got there, no need for man to wait. I'm sure the man had better things to be doing too. No employer I would want to work for would mind if that happened during a work day.

You're not responsible for the dog getting injured but you could have prevented it. You could have helped and you chose not to.

At one point when I worked from home and I was in our front room so all the cold callers could see me, I had a sign on the door saying "I am working so unless you have a parcel for me, I won't be opening the door".

I've still had people knock on the door when they can see I am on the phone though. At which point, I open the door, say " you can see I am on the phone" and close it again. Now though we use Teams so I can't walk away with the laptop, so I close the curtains.

I definitely wouldn't be opening the door because a dog was in my garden, though we have side access so in extremis a neighbour could go in themselves to retrieve their pet.