Strangers who think we all love their dog

Come to my local!

Well, we live in North Yorkshire, so carcasses are tricky to come across. Apart from the odd sheep some dog has ripped apart. My Thor does like offal, but he seems to enjoy swooping down on live animals as well, although in Sainsburys that does tend to be small children. What can you do? It's just a bit fun. Some parents are such prissy vulture haters.

I don't think prey is the correct word - vultures are scavengers aren't they? So he was looking for .. offal? Carcases?

To be fair, I'd love to see a vulture in Sainsbury's.

I’m with you OP. Dog owners can be pretty irritating. The worst is when the dog bounds over and jumps up with muddy paws. ‘Oh he’s friendly’ they say. Well I’m not. So keep your sodding dog off me.

Then you’re not part of that section, are you?

Most dog owners are absolutely fine - the vast, vast majority. There are so many dogs in this area and most of them are absolutely no hassle, well trained and kept on a lead.

The rest are absolutely not fine and it's ok to complain about them. The ones that leave their dogs barking in the garden as if other people don't exist - the guy who let his dog off the lead in a busy park which then ran directly towards a group of kids playing on the ground at the playpark area and shat right beside them - the ones who let their dogs shit everywhere and don't pick it up - the ones who do pick it up and leave the bags on the ground or hanging on trees - the ones who let their dogs off the lead in residential areas. They're all worthy of complaining about. If you aren't being a responsible dog owner and are too lazy to train them then you're a dick and that's it really.

Edit: also my daughter's school has put out multiple communications reminding people that dogs aren't allowed on school grounds because people keep bringing their big mutts in - even after reminders that some children aren't used to dogs or don't like them. Multiple dogs have fouled in the school grounds AND right at the school gates. What possesses people?!

No, we think they should be well trained and there should dog free spaces /parks /restaurants to enable those who do not like dogs to avoid them.

Why is that so unreasonable?

People are perfectly entitled to dislike dogs, especially when so many dogs behave so poorly.
Why do you take such offence at people disliking dogs? Your dog isn't an extension of you.

I love animals, including well behaved dog (owners!) But there are a lot of entitled dog owners who I do have a problem with. I've been on the receiving end of:

• Dogs on those long leads, allowed to jump up at me while I was jogging (no effort on owner's part to stop this)

• Friends/ family who pitch up at my house with their dogs, even though we have two cats who become distressed.

• A dog not on its lead running into my path whilst cycling, forcing me to stop suddenly to avoid hitting it.

• An escaped dog on the A1 (yes, the A1) which unfortunately ran out in front of me. I hit the poor thing (obviously i stopped to find its owners) and it had to be put to sleep. Very sad, very traumatic - owners were pissed off with me for hitting it and asked for help with vets bills. They had failed to secure their garden properly (hole in fence) and were lucky the dog didn't cause a pile up.

• Woman allowing her dog to jump up (whilst on a lead) at my daughter who is scared of dogs because one bit her when she was younger, saying "oh it's ok, he's very friendly". 🙄

I'm not a dog hater, I'm an entitled dog owners hater. There's a difference!

It speaks volumes doesn't it, about just how many poorly trained dogs there are out there now, and how inconsiderate many dog owners are being, that there are so many of these threads appearing.

People do not have to be tolerant of poorly trained dogs. Dogs owners are not entitled to expect everyone to like their dog, or excuse it's behaviour.

If you feel like you are seeing a lot of these threads with people concerned over dogs behaviour, ask yourself why.

And I'm sick to death of dog haters and prissy people who make this type of comment.

I think that may require some reflection.

I’ve noticed a trend developing, where I am at least, that takes irresponsible ownership up a level; it now seems fashionable to walk your dog off lead on the street (middle of London) to show off how cool you are. This specialism used to be reserved for hard men but now the field is open to all.

Of course there would. There’s a section of MN that thinks dog should become extinct.

If some people weren't such irresponsible dick-heads with their dogs, there wouldn't be any threads like this at all.

I find a dog manners tend to match the owners these days. My expectations are quite low.

Maybe the proliferation of 'dog hating' threads might make you reflect on why that might be. Could it be that people complaining about dogs and their owners doing something that is anti-social might just have a point?

I absolutely hate dogs near me. I hate dogs on stupidly long leads so they can get near me. I hate dogs off lead with a firey passion. I hate the owners of these dogs even more. Why on earth do these stupid people think that strangers minding their own business want their hairy, smelly, drooly, bitey animals near them? It's rude, intrusive and entitled

Well trained dogs on short leads I can put up with. Trained service dogs I think are amazing.

indulge their dogs behaviour and I just can't 😅

A friend got a cavapoo, sweet little dog and everything but when it sees you it jumps up with its muddy paws WHILE she's holding the lead, smiling indulgently, and then gets offended if you try and avoid it like you've been mean to it.

A lot of dog owners shouldn't have dogs, children or anything else. The way people are these days, entltled! (Got a dog myself so not a dog hater, just a people hater).

I still get jarred thinking about the time I took my kids crabbing( standing on the beach) a woman had a dog not on a lead and it kept trying to run over where we were and getting tangled in our crabbing line, whilst she left it off the lead and went in the water. She did stop it a few times but she got fed up of getting out of the water to get it. It came over and shook water all over us and she said " don't come near the water if you don't expect to get wet" . We then moved off down the beach away from her lovely but over zealous dog. What happened, 20 or do minutes later it ran all down the beach to where we were and ate all our bacon. I'm more angry at myself that I didn't tell her to control her dog. If I let my kids just run up to people and splash water all over them or eat their stuff whilst I stayed in the water I'm sure she would be annoyed.

A dog peed up the side of my baby sons pram on the beach I was furious tried to stop him and the owners just laughed at me desperately trying to shoo the dog away from the thankfully empty pram. No offer to clean it and to make it worse my son is highly allergic to dogs.

And mine was specifically aimed at any dog owner who instinctively and fallaciously attempts to draw an equivalence between dogs and children in any form.