Parking when there are dogs around

You both sound very unreasonable to me and the fact that you told the driver to fuck off?!?! Very classy! 🙄

I care about my child's safety so I don't allow him to wander about where he might be hit by a car. Shame you don't feel the same about your dogs.

Dogs should be on (short) leads in shared use spaces (like cycle paths and canal towpaths) and also anywhere there are cars.

As for parking next to you in a car park someone did that to me today in an empty car park so I moved. I didn't have a dog with me though - on or off a lead.

Poor kids. I hope they weren't very young and you didn't upset them too much.

Indeed

OP, the only things I pity in this are your elderly dogs.

Like others, im unsure of how genuine this is/if its a reverse or whatever but I'll bite

1. Regardless of how old or obedient your dogs are, they should be on a lead. ESPECIALLY in a public park
2. He has the right to park absolutely anywhere he wants to park (restrictions excepted obviously)
3. How on earth do you know he wasnt looking??

But yes, you are COMPLETELY unreasonable in every aspect here. And that said as a dog lover

You say he wasn’t looking but maybe he has those cameras which show you where you are reversing without needing to turn.

Anyway, you are clearly unreasonable, in your OP and responses. It’s a car park. He can park where he likes. He didn’t hit a dog. Move on.

If she's that precious, PUT HER ON A LEAD.

I have a dog. She's kept on a lead. It's easy. I recommend.

Sorry, yabu. It was a car park. For parking cars in. No one, person or pet, should be taking up space that someone could park in.

I assume you didn't move and were able to slap the car?

He could have picked anywhere. He was having a pissing contest by deciding to park right where you were talking.

I have 3 dogs, various ages from 6 months to nearly 11. Before I even get to the carpark mine are all on the lead because they are my responsibility, not the responsibility to look out for by someone driving in the car park,

You were being unreasonable, rude and seem to think you have more rights to the use of the carpark than someone else.

You'll find OP that people on here think that as long as someone has the objective right to do something, then they're always in the right. Also there's a lot of dog hatred. Of course, a normal, decent person entering a car park would not have done what this man did.

However, for your own safety you should not bang on someone's car because it is quite a shock (I've had cyclists do this to me in Cambridge for no good reason). He was already behaving quite aggressively and he could have been violent. I also think you should keep your dogs on a lead on a car park just in case.

He passed 200 spaces
meaning you did that as well, so clearly the spots you were in are the ‘good’ ones.
You can’t blame people for parking there as that’s what you did as well.
You say his kids could walk the 50m… I suppose you can as well, but you chose the closer spots, because that’s what people do!

This sums up everything I want to say, pretty much. My darling old dog died just after Christmas and it’s brutal, so hard to lose them, but that doesn’t give one the green light to behave disproportionately or unreasonably to situations while maintaining that the higher ground remains theirs. I’d argue that with a dog who’s slow and unable to see or hear, you need to be more protective towards external factors; having them on the lead in a car park seems a good place to start.

No, I don't know what you mean, what are you actually on about now?! 😂

I feel slightly perplexed if someone parks next to me in an otherwise empty car park. Not because of safety or feeling affronted - just puzzled because it's easier to get out of the car if you're not next to someone and you don't risk damaging your door or the other car.

You were absolutely in the WRONG...your behaviour was rude...entitled....out of order and all the rest of it. Even swearing in front of children. Even using the 'c' word on here about a driver using the car park in a perfectly correct manner.

You should always have your dog on a lead in the car park. If you want to stand about and chat to another dog owner and have your dogs off-lead while you do that, then stay in the dog-zone area of the park and finish your chat before you leave.

Telling a stranger to fuck off at the end of an arguement is always unreasonable, unless they literally ran over your dog on purpose.

So your dog that cannot hear cars *and probably you calling) was off lead in a carpark.

Read that, and tell me how that is sensible and ok

"Maybe" in the wrong?! 🙄

Why should he?

OP was inconsiderate letting her dog wander around and stand in the middle of the carpark. If she wanted to chat then stay on the path and keep her dog in a lead

And then to shout and swear and bang on his car - how can you genuinely think that that’s reasonable and acceptable behaviour, particularly in front of the children.

OP I actually agree with you. A huge empty car park, why wouldn't you try and avoid the dogs and keep everyone safe?

You need to get a grip on your emotions. You can’t go around swearing at people and slapping their property - especially when they’re driving a bloody car - just because you’re upset. Do it for yourself if you don’t care about anyone else: he could have got out and punched your lights out.

You being elderly doesn’t give you a free pass to do as you please and endanger your dog.

You had your dog off lead in a car park and you’re annoyed because someone - as is their right - used the car park for car parking when you were not in control of your dog? Yes, you are being unreasonable. And I say that as a dog owner who regularly walks my dog off lead (in sensible places) .