AIBU to be upset after a dog jumped at our baby?

Oh come on - its 2 adults and one child. Surely one parent can just walk away with the baby while the other holds the dog.

Then the owner should have got an earful as they were in the wrong. But still - kicking the dog is not necessary.

I love dogs, but an unfamiliar, uncontrolled dog near my baby would absolutely get kicked. I don’t care one jot if that’s unkind. Of course, I would kick as gently as possible to get the dog away - could well just look like pushing the dog with your leg more than an actual kick. But it takes a special kind of wet to think being kind to an unknown dog should trump your baby’s safety.

you are missing "while you are holding your baby" which makes all the difference.

100%
We have dogs and I’d say I was fairly confident around them. But if I was out with my baby and an unknown dog came jumping up, I wouldn’t be putting my hands and arms near its head / face to grab its collar. You never know how they’ll react with being grabbed at, or even accidentally nip you when trying to grab food.
I would probably have gently kicked or pushed it away with my foot too.

Yes kicking a dog that fancies a bit of your ice cream is an over reaction.

Mine would never approach someone either, but I have to say I would be a bit … not amused as such but a bit perplexed I suppose if I saw that kind of production over a dog wanting a sniff of some food. We seem to have lost a lot of sight of proportionality in recent years when it comes to stuff like this. But accept I may be in the minority, I will just carry on as I am and leave others to it!

As a dog owner I would be mortified if my dog did that and I wouldn’t even mind if you ‘ kicked’ my dog as it would be 100% my fault ! granted there’s kicking and kicking , a shoo away with your foot would be acceptable in circumstances , no need to be booting him/
her .
Anyone who says or thinks differently shouldn’t be owning a dog .

a dog is still a dog, when you don't know them, you have no idea what to expect.

I am sure you can google a lot more example.
I have dogs, I dont' allow them to jump at strangers

abc7chicago.com/post/springer-spaniel-attacks-toddler-bites-her-head/1040290/

No you absolutely were not unreasonable to do whatever you needed to do to get this strange dog away from your baby. That’s completely unacceptable of the owner and she would have been getting a mouthful from me. Dogs can be reactive around food, they can be aggressive, dirty, frightening, boisterous and there are not many people who would want a dog they don’t know jumping all over their baby. I say all this as a dog owner. Really shitty and irresponsible behaviour from the dog owner.

If you can't train your dog and recall them immediately, you shouldn't be allowed one frankly. At the very least, should be on a lead.

Not sure kicking a spaniel is strictly necessary, but he shouldn't have been allowed to come near you like that, so who would say you are BU?

I feel sorry for the dog, but he has shit owners. Or crap dog walkers, it's insane the amount of dog walkers with too many dogs and they don't know how to handle.

That profession should really get some regulation, it's a recipe for disaster

I do think as well this kind of hysteria around dogs is why you end up with some of the kids I see that are shrieking and crying as a dog walks past them totally uninterested in them. Dog shouldn’t have come over and the owner should have got her shit together asap, but the screaming and kicking and panic was OTT. Just a bit of a shambles all round IMO for what is a kind of everyday minor inconvenience when out and about in the world 🤷‍♀️ Seems like a stressful way to exist!

Dogs that jump on people or steal food also need to be on a lead at all times.

I love my dog but I’m 99% sure safe wouldn’t do this. If she headed to you, I would have called her back before she had any chance to jump up. Some owners just suck I’m afraid. You protected your baby and dog owner was a twat.

I routinely do. Dog body language is quite easy to read if you know a bit about dogs! Whenever we have a picnic we have dogs coming over, it’s food outside so we expect it. The dogs are invariably friendly, and clearly so, so I will hold onto them or crouch down to block them and make a fuss of them to distract them till owners come. No screaming or kicking has ever been required.

I think it depends if the kick was more like a push to move the dog away (fine) or something to actually hurt the dog (not ok).

The dog should have been on a lead. It should respond to recall and not jump up. All of that.
But, a spaniel. I think they are more likely to lick you to death.
Your husband kicking the dog does seems like an overreaction to me. Before a firm ‘no’ , standing up and trying to get him off.
In your situation I would have dropped the baby bag too. And taken the baby. So your husband can try to restrain the dog. More important than the bag.

enlighten me….what does someone using emoji’s mean?

YABU to still be giving this non-incident this much headspace a week on...

It was a bit of a shock, no-one was hurt. Move on.

Oh, right, and now the emojis come out, telling us all we need to know.

call the police because a spaniel mix is trying to get a lick of an egg sandwich?! 😂 grow up!!!

No-one in their right mind is going to calmly hold a strange, out of control dog by the collar or crouch down close to it. Unless they’re a dog whisperer.