To think that just because your dog "really loves children" doesn't give you right to let it slogged all over my child?

[emkana]

Always gets me. What about my child not liking dogs? So shouldn't that be respected?

Sorry for appalling thread title, blooming auto correct
Was meant to be slobber

My dog loves everybody, but I wouldn't let him near a child or anybody who didn't like dog, it's just plain rude.

YANBU at all. And I'm a dog owner, btw.

YANBU - a dog should be given a balanced diet - not just children, even if it 'really loves' them

Kidding.

YANBU at all, a friend let their huge boxer dog lick and slobber all over my then 8month old DD, while saying "oh don't worry, he LOVES babies" - really, does that make his mouth any cleaner - a few seconds earlier he was licking his butt....

OMG NO def yanbu.

I detest dog slobber. I esp detest dog slobber on my dc.

'Don't worry he's only being friendly..' I always reply, Yes but I'm not.

I should add that I love dogs, but slobber makes me heave. You can train dogs not to lick humans, and I wish more people would.

YANBU at all

my 26 yr old has been scarred for life by a 'friendly' dog jumping up at him when he was younger.

Not physically, but mentally.

The dog was jumping up and being only 4 yrs old at the time, son did that 'open mouthed EEEUURRGGHH EEEUURRRGGHHH' thingy with his tongue hanging out and he accidentally

licked

the

dogs

EYE!!!

[vomit smiley]

YANBU at all!

Urgh, I HATE slobbering "friendly" dogs. Loathe the assumption that we will want some stinking drooling creature near us just because it is "friendly".

YANBU. I wouldn't want anyone who doesn't like them amywhere near my dogs.

YANBU. I hate dogs that jump up at you especially when their owner give you a half hearted appology and smile as if to say ' well what can you do??'
Don't have a dog if you can't control it ..that's what you can do!
I only tolerate dogs anyway. Keep them away from me and clean their shit up.

YANBU

I don't let my dog do this and nor should anyone else.

I started a similar thread before Christmas. I cannot understand how some dogowners think it's okay to let their dog run up at strangers, barking, jumping or licking them. I also hate those extendable leads where the dog might as well not be on a lead at all because the idiot owner doesn't know how to use it properly.

SGM, genuine question - would a person be likely to have an asthma attack purely on the strength of a dog being close enough to jump up at them whilst in the open air? (Meaning that the chances are that you'd avoid visiting a home with dogs in but will meet them in parks etc).

Slightly related - when someone has a puppy, and they jump up at you and the owner yanks them off and says "NO! No jumping!" PLEASE don't say, "oh it's fine, I love dogs!" and make a huge fuss of the animal in question.

YOU may love dogs - other people don't. So please don't undermine an owner's efforts to teach their dog good manners.

I know people mean well, but it used to drive me bonkers how often that happened when ours was a pup. It would take us back to square one. You can't teach an animal not to jump up if the usual reaction is a huge amount of affection and fuss.

DNBU!!!.....it pees me off too, we have friends who are big Dog lovers, & they can be a real pain over it at times, okay, their Dogs are sweet, but FFS, they have no thought that others don't always feel the same

we recently had a pub get together with other mutual friends, 1 of whom was savaged badly as a child & still bares the facial scars, she won't make a fuss, but when the bigger of the 2 dogs sat next to her, I could see she was frozen with fear but trying hard to act "normal"....the owners didn't even bloody notice until DH told them to shift said Dog, & then replied, OOOh , but XX is such a softy & wouldn't hurt a fly.....not the point

Exactly, PS. Even worse are people who have got dogs themselves, who take out a pocket full of treats (very laudable) and then go "Can she have one?" (referring to your dog) and when you go "Not really, thanks anyway" they go "Aww, one won't hurt" and give your dog a treat anyway. Thus cementing even more the idea that strangers are worth mugging.

And don't even get me started on the bloke who, when my dog was a pup, used to feed her biscuits and then TAKE HER FOR A RIDE ON HIS MOBILITY SCOOTER! Totally ignoring me when I asked him not to

YANBU. Just because owners like their dogs doesn't mean everyone else does.

YANBU. I would not allow my dogs to do this, although they are non-slobbery dogs!

I do hate it though when parents allow their kids to screech "DOGGYYYYY!!!!!!" at the top of their voice then maniacally dance over to my dogs and start petting/batting/eyeballing them without asking me. Luckily they are friendly dogs and do love children but it isn't best practise, as they could then do this to a dog that doesn't like children, and then the dog will get blamed for reacting badly when it is the parent's responsibility to stop their children from approaching strange dogs.

Irrelevant rant there, but it works both ways.

YANBU. I'd love it if parents would check with me before letting (and on occassion even sending) their toddlers pet my two (very cute) dogs...mine will lick but not bite but the next dogs might not be so friendly! And whose fault will that be!

Lottery - I agree with that, too.

I sometimes take a dog on the school run and I am constantly AMAZED how few kids actually know how to approach a dog. Very, very few know to ASK before petting - they just rush up screeching. Worse, the parents stand there and watch them. I suppose they take it for granted that the dogs are safe (which they are, although even the most well-adjusted dog generally dislikes being rushed up to and hugged willy-nilly) and/or that I, as the owner, will educate their kid on dog-human etiquette.