Strangers who think we all love their dog

Some dog owners are like some parents - think we should all love their little darlings, no matter how obnoxious they are. 🙄🤷‍♀️

Ooh, there hasn’t been a dog-hating thread for at least two and a half hours now…thank god one has appeared!

Seeing a lot of threads about unruly dogs seems to me to demonstrate how widespread the problem is becoming. Has become.

😂 I would be so pissed off with this.

Op. I would be livid if someone did this . People should keep their dogs under control and not up in someone's personal space

I don't hate dogs in the least. I hate the stupid owners/"Dog Mummies" who can't control their dogs.

But then I'm like that with "Childen Mummies" too. Crazy, I know.

I was walking on a narrow path on moorland recently with my 90 year old frail mother. Suddenly a big dog barrelled towards us, I had no idea if it was going to jump up. It did run past but then on way back knocked into my mum.

It wasn’t in the owners sight and there is plenty of of open moorland for the dog to run in. I wasn’t confrontational when we came face to face with the owners, just said my mum was scared of dogs, and my mum said it had bumped her, clearly shaken.

The useless twat of an owner just grumpily said ‘oh well this is a dog area. I’ll hold her while you go past. She’s a puppy.’ No apology for not controlling his dog. I think he was actually expecting fawning comments about what a beautiful dog it was (it was, but read your audience).

There was this dog yapping everyone’s ear off on in a cafe recently. Every time someone entered, yapping. Walking past, yapping. Noise from the coffee machine, set it off yapping. Loudly. Was so bloody annoying.

I was with my toddler- now if he couldn’t behave himself in a cafe and was creating a disturbance to other customers, I would ask for takeaway containers and we would leave and go and sit in the park instead.

Seems no one expected the same from the owner of this badly behaved dog. Why are they indulged so much?

I really dislike pet dogs.. or maybe it's not that I dislike them as I understand they are innocent animals.. I think it's the entitlement of owners I dislike.
Fine have a dog if you want one... but assuming that it's "normal" and people who aren't that into it are the strange ones, is unhinged. Yet there's this expectation that everyone accommodate dogs. Even more than they accommodate children! Despite kids being a biological fact of human existence whereas pet dogs are completely unnatural personal choices.
I feel quite sad for those dogs. Some people seem decent owners who understand that a dog has different needs from a human.. but you get these owners taking these poor stressed dogs into cafes etc, carting them about in little outfits like they are human babies. Thinking everyone should act like they are human beings and just find it amusing if the dog jumps on them or licks them or whatever.

I've got 3 kids who I love very much and I expect them to be treated with respect when out and about but I would never in a million years let them lick a stranger or jump on a stranger.. and if they made a tonne of noise (beyond being a newborn) I'd be removing them from the environment. If they touched someone else's property I'd be having stern words with them.

Why on earth do people think it's acceptable to let dogs do any of this?

Not if you're bothered by a dog whilst minding your own business. Like trying on shoes.

Not my baby 😚

Mumsnet would be tumbleweed if we all adopted this attitude.

Let it go. In the grand scheme of life it is peanuts

And vulture owners.

I believe we've identified a few irresponsible and incorrigible dog owners here on this thread.

Too hot to take my dogs out, avoid parks where kids are like the plague.

This is a dog owner hating thread.

There is nothing fundamentally or intrinsically wrong with dogs. Many owners otoh leave a lot to be desired. There are far too many dog owners who shouldn't be in charge of a goldfish.

I have the highest scorn for people who fail their dogs with lack of training.

I also hate people who leave dog poo where it lands.

Yeah I've noticed 😆

More like a week.

Oh no ….. I was once sat on a bench eating lunch and a friendly dog came to say hello.
I like dogs so was fine about it.
Suddenly, the dog opened his jaws and clamped down on half of my remaining lunch
The owner (a bloke) was mortified and apologised.
I was more shocked the dog actually wanted to eat my lunch (very healthy - mainly vegetables).
It just proves dogs will eat anything- well this dogs.
I’m always very protective of my food now if I see a dog at lunch time.

Just got back from the park. Dogs everywhere, fair enough it’s a park for all. There was a cricket match going on and this flipping dog kept chasing the ball. It was funny first couple of times but the owners did nothing just sat and watched.

This exact scenario happened to me in London. Sitting having a picnic with my baby and toddler (at the time) and this dog came running over and was amongst the food tucking in. Luckily we had finished!

Anyway this posh woman came running saying “You didn’t give Teddy chicken bones did you as that can be dangerous for dog”

I was furious at the utter lack of respect for us, the lack of responsibility on her part to control her dog and the audacity of her entitlement to think my main concern was her dog! Absolute lunatic.

Yes, exactly. It's obviously about the bad owners. The OP even says she's got dogs of her own so presumably doesn't hate dogs!