My dog has disgraced herself this morning.

You are like a dog with a bone, never giving up.

Someone who has built a snowman has taken time and effort to do so.

Someone who has made a picnic has taken time and effort to do so.

Someone who has baked a treat has taken time and effort to do so.

When your dog nicks the carrot, the sandwich, the treat, the ball, the shoe, whatever it may be it’s one second for you but for us, who’ve made the effort, it’s pretty annoying and if full body contact is made, it can be frightening especially for small children.

There were posts on here laughing at this sort of dog behaviour and as someone who has experienced it with bad consequences I wanted to take those posters up and give a general reminder that callous peeing on snowmen and nicking carrots etc doesn’t give dogs a good name to some of us. It causes general anti sentiment feeling and I kindly ask you stop doing it and try to control your dogs better.

For the last time. I’m not anti dogs.

I had a dog myself. I have been a dog owner. My parents both had dogs, growing up I was surrounded by dogs. My Facebook feed is full of cats and dogs.

Its just unfathomable to all of you that there might be some bad dog owners out there who caused my DS’s phobia. Your bottom line seems that there are no bad dog owners.

Imagine a Great Dane, and running at you fast, swiping something homemade you were about to put into your mouth you’d enjoyed baking as a treat, coming out of nowhere, scratching your bare legs with its paws as you were wearing shorts, making you totter with the force of its thrust at you and all of this happened in one second. DS was looking forward to his treat and had bought it to the park.

I imagine even you as dog owners would be shocked and a bit surprised if a dog as large as you took something literally out of your mouth. You’d take it in your stride but for a child, a dog the same size as them, that they’ve not experienced this kind of thing before, it’s scary.

Dog owner nowhere to be seen. Dog off loose, charging around.

It’s not my fault this happened. Someone else’s dog was out of control that day and it affected DS quite badly.

I did not overreact. I’ve had dogs jump up on me, countless times.

but as a dog owner what seems normal to you, is not normal to small children who have not been around dogs.

So just remember that. Kids can be badly affected by this sort of thing. Please don’t allow your dog the nick stuff from small children. Or knock them down. Be careful and be kind.

So sorry to hear that. I'm glad naughty dogs are providing some solace. Dogs are good at doing that.

This is Belle but she's not a carrot lover at all. My Sister's other whippet (sadly died 3 years ago) Chessie was the carrot chomper. Also he loved green beans and would suck them up like spaghetti! I have enjoyed the photos of dogs shared and scrolled past the negative posts.

This post made me smile so much, thank you. Difficult time as my DH has advanced cancer and nights are pretty tough. Thank you mumsnet community. Xx

Only a few anti dog people 😆

Back to the “you smell” comments. Favoured by primary school kids and mumsnetters who don’t like dogs.

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@MissysMeemaw
Ooooh you are the new nutter on the wrong thread for you!
Off you pop love
Nobody is interested nor cares about your opinion 👍

This isn't the thread for you. Join all the dog bashing ones

@WeylandYutani outside on the grass before we went in would’ve been more acceptable 🤣

@Anewuser nope he wasn’t scared he loves the vets, he pulls to go in! He just decided inside was a better choice than all the grass we walked past on the way 😂

I would look at it, he was so scared he shat himself.

Poor pup. I can guarantee the vets have seen it before.

To be fair, the vets should be an acceptable place to have a dump. It is the animal version of hospital, after all.

My labratwat took a massive dump on the floor in the reception of the vets this afternoon. I was horrified! And it STANK the place out. I didn’t have a bag on me either so one of the other waiting patients owners had to give me poo bag and the poor receptionist had to wipe the residue up while I held the front door open to air the place out and made everyone freeze. It was only after I realised the receptionist was having her lunch 🤢

Mortified I tell you.

Wait until you hear about small children.

I have this genius idea... now hear me out...don't get a dog then! Problem solved

Our Labrador has stolen a carrot nose in the past fortunately it was our own snowman ⛄️

when we were kids we had gone out for a meal as a family to the pub a few hundred meters away . We had left our beared collie out in the garden when an hour or so later we came out we could hear a dog woofing and what sounded like the chains of a prison gang. Our dog had somehow managed to pull over the whirly style washing line was tangled in it dragging it around the garden. He was very proud of his achievement 😂

It's extremely weird to me that you would post this on a dog thread. What do you get out of it?

My dog lives in the house, she is very clean and she smells a lot nicer than my cat does. People are far more filthy and unhygienic than dogs.