Parking when there are dogs around

Did he run over a dog?

You're just repeating yourself. You were completely unreasonable and are absolutely in the wrong here, as everyone is telling you.

Little dogs shouldn't be wandering around
It's a car park
Clue is in the name

YABU

Get your dogs in the car ASAP in a car park.

Hitting someone's car isn't OK, nor is swearing at them.

Equally you could have put your dog on a lead??

Im in both camps-I have a dog who I adore and I have two young children. My dog is the most obedient, walks to heel dog ever and I am guilty of not putting him on a lead in a car park as he follows me and jumps straight into the car with no bother.

Im also aware that with my kids, I like to park in the most convenient space to get all their crap out the car and make a quick exit if needed.

He was completely reasonable to park where he wanted, especially with kids.

And he was entirely reasonable to get annoyed at you hitting his car ‘in case’ he hit a dog who should have been on lead.

If he was about it hit a dog then that’s different but it’s clear from your post that this was ‘in case’ rather than ‘he was about to’

Put not precious enough to keep safe by keeping them on a leash in a parking lot?

Hmm. You may be right.

50 posts within half an hour of posting.

It's going exactly their way.

Hopefully this will fill today's 'come-at-it-from-any-angle' anti dog thread quota and we can all go about our business.

I wouldnt be surprised there are many batshit crazy people in the world like this, especially when it comes to dogs.

No sane person is going to deliberately hit dog... if only for the reason it damages the car.

Cars have a eight to drive in car parks. Humans have the responsibility to protect themselves and vulnerable humans and animals. Hanging around a car park isn't taking that responsibility.

I love that you can't see how unreasonable you were.

But yet you started a thread. Interesting decision...

Always happens when a thread doesn't go the OP's way.

Surely no one believes this is a genuine thread?

Mmm subsequent posts by OP are suddenly giving off a very different impression of the man from the first post she made..

So keep your precious dogs safe by not letting them off lead in a car park, obviously.

I am a huge dog lover. My husband and I adore our dog. How do you know this man didn’t have a dog at home? I can totally see my husband doing similar in the carpark with no real thought to it other than he wanted that space. Huge over reaction

Yes I think you’ve been a bit extreme. Dogs to me are like children, they need love and attention in higher public places where they can potentially run off/get scared/get distracted. We all like to think we know we our kids and animals but you can just never know what they’ll do next. Protection (to me) is just a necessary stage of keeping everyone safe. I’ll always put my dog on a lead in a car park, at the exit of the car park, along the road etc. She is the most placid well behaved dog ever, she wouldn’t look any other human, dog , car whatever….but there’s always that chance that a loud noise will scare her, a car won’t see her, who knows…she could run off at the wrong time….as much as I think she wouldn’t. She can’t speak to me to tell me that’s she’s spooked or distracted or actually shut up talking and let’s go home…I have to have forward thinking of that. And my dog is still fairly young. In the past my older dogs would 100% be on a lead at that point. You know he got grumpy, he didn’t like people approaching him , he walked with some pain etc. even if your elderly dogs aren’t grumpy or in pain, if they’re small, it is safer in car parks etc as not everyone will see them.

i agree it’s a shame that the car park was empty by the sound of it and why park where you’re standing. It’s like when I park miles away from the store to “have a nice space “ where there’s no cars and I come back to my car after a bit shopping and someone has parked as close as they can next to me when there’s 50 others spaces free to park in!!!! But equally I don’t own the car park and can’t go round slapping every car with an owner I don’t agree with!

I think the slapping the car was unnecessary. If you had to show your displeasure at their actions, a roll eye would have been better if you really really had to say something. Maybe your actions of “standing in the way “ chatting was his way of saying that you were equally in the way. Whilst I don’t think you can compare a dog to a car, of course a dog is living thing with feelings and no one should ever slap a dog. Ever. Maybe his car was his pride and joy. Maybe he thought you had damaged it. Imagine him slappping your dog, you’d be outraged (rightly so!!!)

I think you’ve both been a bit caught up in the moment. You’ve both got equal access to the car park, you’ve both got a right to park where you like. I think you overstepped the mark by the slapping of the car. I’m not sure what reaction you’d thought you’d get by doing that. Not many people are going to take it well or ignore it. You don’t own the car park even if you take the dogs out of it. But what can you do? It’s done, no point worrying about it. Maybe next time park further away yourself to give you space, time to talk etc. by the sounds of it you too have parked in a popular part of the car park. You can’t be up all night worrying about it, it’s done , all you can do is learn from it 🫶

So you don't think YABU? Why ask then?!! Why are you making an assumption this person does not like dogs? How bizarre.

IMO YABVU it is a CAR PARK and you must've known a car may come along at any time and you know try and park. You banged his car and told him to fuck off in front of his DC? Classy. Get your dog on a lead FFS and hold your nasty tongue in future.

Even the best behaved dog in the world should be on a lead in the carpark. What use is blaming drivers for where they did or didn't park if your dog gets killed, when you could have them on a lead and hold them close in the case of emergency. You are unreasonable and irresponsible.

Do you genuinely think you were in the right to be chatting in a car park and allowing your dogs to wander around off lead and then get annoyed with another car driver for parking in an empty space then banging on the car roof?

Genuinely?

You are the problem. He can park where he wants. Keep your dog on a lead.

Not sure his reason to park there was
because he wanted to pretend to run over your dog or prove a point. Strange and annoying he parked right next to you when the carpets empty but really nothing to kick off about. He can park where he wants. And slapping his car roof is
obviously going to get a reaction. Odd behaviour over nothing

I wouldn't have my dogs unleashed in a car park for precisely this reason. Even if the dogs are well trained, it only takes a second for a driver who's perhaps going a little fast or not paying attention to hit them. It's not worth the risk imo.

I would have raised an eyebrow at a driver choosing to park next to me in an empty carpark and perhaps made a comment to my friend out of earshot. It wouldn't have occurred to me to confront the driver, as he has just as much right to park there as I have.

Is it just me or does this poster have form for starting this kind of rage bait thread?